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
London01-2023
Postgraduate Diploma - Information Technology
Birkbeck, University of London
London01-2020
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