Leon Talbert
Head Of Web Engineering at Gun.io
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLeon Talbert is a Head of Web Engineering with 11 years' experience building high-traffic web products and leading engineering teams from London. He co-founded a successful university startup built in Clojure that served 150k daily active users and later scaled product and UX work across clients as a senior web developer and freelancer. Currently leading web engineering at the Ethereum Name Service, he blends hands-on front-end craftsmanship—evidenced by UI and expiry-notification improvements on the ENS app—with architecture and delivery oversight. Comfortable across React, Node.js, Clojure(Script) and backend data stacks, he pairs pragmatic engineering with product-minded thinking. He also brings a creative-technology perspective from roles in design-led teams and a formal engineering background from UCL.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Art and Design, Pass, Diploma, Art and Design, Pass at University of the Arts LondonUniversity College London
Github Skills (10)
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
react10
ui-design9
html9
css9
user-interface8
interface-design8
state-management7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ensdomains/ens-app
Jun 2021 - Sep 2022
Legacy ENS manager app
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:74 reviews, 355 commits, 234 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Leon primarily refactored and enhanced the expiry notification feature within the legacy ENS manager app. Their work involved modifications to the UI components, including the creation of a modal for email notifications, and the modification of existing components. The code changes touch upon multiple UI components, indicating a focus on improving the user experience related to name expiration reminders.
ensreacttypescriptapp-manager
ensdomains/ens-faucet-worker
Aug 2023 - Apr 2025
Cloudflare worker to help distribute testnet ETH to ENS manager app users
Contributions:2 reviews, 2 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 8 months
cloudflare
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