Paul Gain
Senior JavaScript React Developer at Department for Business and Trade
Brentwood, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Gain is a Senior JavaScript React developer with 11 years of experience building resilient front-end applications and node-based services for UK government departments and financial institutions. He specialises in modern JavaScript, React/Redux with hooks, Node.js/Express, and has production experience with testing (Mocha/Chai, Cypress), Docker and styled-components. Paul has repeatedly delivered large-scale, regulated projects at organisations like the Department for Business and Trade, Ministry of Justice and top-tier investment banks, bringing pragmatic tooling and test automation to legacy modernization efforts. Comfortable across the full stack, he also leverages Python/Django/DRF when projects require backend APIs, reflecting a pragmatic multi-language approach. Based in Brentwood, England, he pairs deep front-end craft with a strong history of working in high-compliance environments where attention to detail and stability matter.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science (Hons), BSc, Computer Science (Hons) at Queen Mary University of London
Github Skills (36)
rendering10
datahub10
nodejs10
frontend10
django9
schema9
hapi8
validation8
data-infrastructure8
javascript7
react-component7
js7
react6
json-storage6
iconv6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
paulgain/react-iphone-stopwatch
Aug 2018 - Jun 2025
An iPhone 7 stopwatch React.js implementation
Contributions:1 review, 12 PRs, 58 pushes in 6 years 10 months
reactiphonereact-nativereact-jsstopwatch
paulgain/semantic-release-demo
Nov 2018 - Jul 2019
Understand how https://github.com/semantic-release/semantic-release works
Contributions:9 releases, 70 PRs, 55 pushes in 8 months
semantic-releasesemantic
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