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Leonard Minski

London

Summary

Skilled Front-End Engineer with nearly three years of experience in developing scalable and accessible digital products for customer-facing platforms and complex internal systems. Expertise in delivering production-ready interfaces using Angular, React and TypeScript in regulated environments. Committed to enhancing user journeys and accessibility standards while driving impactful UI improvements and mentoring junior engineers.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience

Work History

UI / Front-End Engineer

Direct Line Group
01.2024 - Current
  • Delivered frontend solutions across customer journeys and operational platforms in a high-impact regulated environment, balancing usability, accessibility and business-critical delivery.
  • Optimised rendering delays and enhanced perceived load performance through refined component state handling and reusable UI patterns.
  • Improved accessibility compliance through WCAG audits, semantic HTML improvements and stronger keyboard navigation across customer-facing interfaces.
  • Developed UI architecture proposals, wireframes, and solution recommendations that aligned with business goals and regulatory standards.
  • Built and launched a Quarantine Document workflow that reduced document processing errors by approximately 30% and improved efficiency for authorised operational teams.
  • Co-developed the Ebooks Rescue Journey, a critical fallback platform supporting approximately 2,500 daily rescues during AWS outages and protecting continuity of customer service.
  • Played a key role in a large-scale platform decommissioning and migration programme, delivering compliant customer communications and replacement digital journeys.
  • Mentored two software engineering apprentices, enhancing onboarding and frontend best practices to improve delivery quality in live production.
  • Green Flag Digital

Software Engineering Apprentice (Front-End Focus)

Direct Line Group
06.2022 - 12.2023
  • Built production web interfaces using React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML and CSS with a strong focus on accessibility, maintainability and component consistency.
  • Achieved distinction in software engineering apprenticeship focused on front-end engineering, UI delivery, and production-ready development.
  • Collaborated with front-end and back-end teams on API integration and delivery, enhancing skills in Node.js, Express, Java, and Python.
  • Applied DevOps fundamentals across Git workflows, CI/CD pipelines, Docker and deployment processes.
  • Transitioned into a permanent engineering role six months early due to delivery performance, ownership and strong stakeholder feedback.
  • Participated in innovative learning and development strategies through engagement with Multiverse.

Education

Postgraduate Diploma - Digital Media Design

Birkbeck, University of London
London
01-2023

Postgraduate Diploma - Information Technology

Birkbeck, University of London
London
01-2020

Skills

  • JavaScript expertise
  • Angular and React
  • HTML5 and SCSS
  • RxJS and performance optimisation
  • UI architecture
  • Responsive accessibility
  • API testing
  • Git and version control
  • CI/CD fundamentals
  • Agile front-end development
  • Figma design
  • Project management tools
  • Technical troubleshooting
  • Team mentorship
  • Communication skills
  • Creative decision-making

Websites, Portfolios and Profiles

linkedin.com/in/leonardminski

Timeline

UI / Front-End Engineer

Direct Line Group
01.2024 - Current

Software Engineering Apprentice (Front-End Focus)

Direct Line Group
06.2022 - 12.2023

Postgraduate Diploma - Digital Media Design

Birkbeck, University of London

Postgraduate Diploma - Information Technology

Birkbeck, University of London
Leonard Minski