<ul><li>Creates a design system using React and drove adoption throughout the company. </li><li>Ran workshops, produced training videos, and worked closely with UX. </li><li>Evangelized Svelte for future. </li><li>Took part in the GitCoin Apollo hackathon and Kernal Fellowship and also the Hack FS Ethereum and Filecoin hackathon</li></ul>

Senior Web Development Engineer

<ul><li>Acted as lead engineer and architect of innovative React-based UI library for self-service applications that help Amazon employees manage their careers and managers manage their teams. </li><li>Involved in spiking, rapid development, storybook documentation, automated builds, training backend developers to help build library, evangelization of library, and supporting local and remote teams as they adopt and contribute back to the library. Also conference speaking.</li></ul>

Web Development Engineer Level 2

<ul><li>Recorded videos on Radium, Redux, and Flow.</li><li>Presented talks at ReactEurope, Scotland JS, UX Scotland, and Edinburgh JS.&nbsp;</li></ul>

Instructor & Conference Talks

<ul><li>Worked with Digital Insight, a company that provides an online banking experience for about 1000 small and medium-sized banks in the US. After investigating React in early 2015, Philip presented his findings to the newly acquired group. This led to React being adopted by Digital Insight. He then worked on responsive online banking UI projects using React, React Native, Webpack, Babel, Flow (type checker), Redux, GraphQL, Relay, Eslint, AVA (testing), Node, npm, and Express.&nbsp;</li><li>Established and led the Web Guild at NCR Edinburgh where those who work with web tech meet every two weeks to discuss and present the latest developments. Since Philip joined the headcount at NCR Edinburgh increased from about 20 to over 100 and now web tech plays an important part in most engineers' roles. He presented internal talks frequently both to the guild and the whole office.</li></ul>

Web Specialist

<ul><li>Maintained and developed new functionality for high traffic Drupal site integrated with a Java booking system for PolskiBus (the Polish equivalent of Megabus). Project involved PHP, jQuery, SOAP, Git, Apache, Memcache, and MySQL. </li><li>Supported many smaller sites working with clients to improve their sites. </li><li>Used Node.js, d3, Angular, Backbone, LESS, CakePHP, HTML5, Web Sockets, and Linux.</li></ul>

Lead Web Developer

React Playground Styled is a responsive playground that can be configured with styled-components. It is built for documenting React components in the minimum space possible. You will normally wrap it in your own component to provide sensible defaults that make it blend with the look and feel your style guide.

React Playground Styled for Component Docs

Philip Holden

Created a course in Egghead about React Recompose.

React Recompose: Theme UI Libraries at Runtime Using Context

Taught about using window.device PixelRatio to create a canvas that is responsive to pixel ratio.

Make Canvas Responsive to Pixel Ratio

Provided a video on how the nesting of components affects the styles and what to do when this happens.

Recompose: ButtonGroup - When Nesting Affects Style

Produced an instructional video about Radium.

Radium: Updating Button Styles via Props

Subdivide: User Defined UI by Phil Holden at ReactEurope 2016

Phil Holden Technical Demos

Develop a 2D visualization using d3.js from a JSON file containing bus route data (times + lon/lat). The thickness of lines is proportional to the number of buses per day traveling a given route. Clicking on a line near a stop shows all journeys departing from that stop on that route in a dropdown box. Refreshing the page causes the buses to animate along the route such that you see a full day's operation in under one minute.

Line Chart

Created for Builder a Flash like UI editor for creating cash mashine UIs at NCR.

SVG Node Editor Written in Angular

English (British)

Philip Holden is a web development engineer with several years of experience in web development and technical training. He works as a senior web development engineer at WoodMac, where he creates a design system using React, runs workshops, and creates training videos. At Amazon Development Center, he served as a lead engineer and architect of an innovative React-based UI library for self-service applications that help Amazon employees manage their careers and managers manage their teams. Philip was also an instructor at Egghead, where he recorded videos on Radium, Redux, and Flow, and presented talks at React Europe, Scotland JS, UX Scotland, and Edinburgh JS.

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React Playground Styled for Component Docs

React Recompose: Theme UI Libraries at Runtime Using Context

Make Canvas Responsive to Pixel Ratio

Recompose: ButtonGroup - When Nesting Affects Style

Radium: Updating Button Styles via Props

Subdivide: User Defined UI by Phil Holden at ReactEurope 2016

React Playground Styled for Component Docs

React Recompose: Theme UI Libraries at Runtime Using Context

Make Canvas Responsive to Pixel Ratio

Recompose: ButtonGroup - When Nesting Affects Style

Radium: Updating Button Styles via Props

Subdivide: User Defined UI by Phil Holden at ReactEurope 2016