Jay Freestone

I’m Jay, a software engineer living and working in East London. I’m currently helping to build a one-stop-shop for the digitisation of alternative assets over at Daphne .

I’ve been building stuff on the web since 2013, where I found myself with a liberal arts degree and an aversion to pulling shots for a living — so I taught myself JavaScript instead. I started my career as a digital-designer and web guy at a branding agency in Shoreditch, then graduated to becoming a front-end developer at Browser. Finally, I spent a lovely few years at Red Badger , where I helped to build digital products & services for blue chips.

Despite it originally being my escape hatch, I absolutely love what I do. I’m passionate about everything from typography and design systems through to static typing and functional programming. When I’m not drowning in YAML, I enjoy complaining about build tools and exploring new languages, frameworks and design patterns.

Whilst I wouldn’t consider myself a contrarian so much as a part-time troll, I genuinely believe that the C in CSS is a good thing, that PHP really did ‘get good’, and that micro-services are more of a cargo-cult than an architectural choice. I also unironically loved Batman vs. Superman.

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