Ben Yarrow

I work with the front-end team and day-to-day I'm responsible for turning approved page template designs into working web pages within whatever system the projects requires - be that a content management system such as Craft CMS or a static system such as React, or similar.

I really enjoy the process of bringing designs to life in the browser and applying the animations and transitions that give our projects the wow-factor. Being involved in our projects from start to finish gives me a great deal of insight into modern web design and development best practices along with the satisfaction of playing my part alongside the rest of the team.

After ten years working in the mechanical engineering industry including mechanical fitting, mechanical design, five axis CNC programming and project coordination I decided it was time for a career change.

A friend introduced me to web development and this sparked my interest as there are a lot of transferable skills between engineering and digital technologies. Having an engineering mindset as well as experience working with programming languages for CNC machining made the transition very rewarding and enjoyable.

I studied a full-stack development course on CodeCademy for an average of 3 hours per day and after a year of studying I reached out to Enovate to discuss the option of work experience which I took part in for six weeks before being offered a full time position. I now have one year of industry experience and have been involved in a variety of projects which utilise different programming techniques and languages.