Toby Brancher
Full Stack Engineer at Self-employed
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolToby Brancher is a seasoned full-stack engineer based in Bristol, specialising in UI development with two decades of industry experience and 11 years in focused professional roles. He has led teams and client engagements across agencies and enterprise clients, shaping front-end architecture, design systems, and component libraries at firms like AKQA and IBM iX. Equally comfortable prototyping experimental browser features as he is building production monorepos and headless CMS integrations, he favours pragmatic solutions that let every team member contribute. Currently self-employed, he’s exploring modern stacks—Remix, Directus, PandaCSS, R3F and xState—while advising on Shopify Hydrogen and project scoping. Colleagues describe him as a collaborative problem-solver who balances hands-on coding with mentoring and client management. An unexpected thread through his career is a consistent appetite for R&D and teaching: he repeatedly takes time to refine tools and uplift others, from running a shared studio to public speaking and open-source work.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Commercial Music, Bachelor of Arts - BA Commercial Music at University of Westminster
Github Skills (161)
twitch10
cms10
postgresql10
storybook10
css-in-js10
styled-components10
custom-ui10
component-library10
streamable10
backend10
vimeo10
auth10
wistia10
javascript10
directus10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
stevesims/govuk-frederic
Jul 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:7 releases, 53 commits, 41 PRs in 3 months
Loque-/guttr
Jan 2020 - Aug 2021
Consistent gutters for OOCSS
Contributions:25 commits, 24 PRs, 48 pushes in 1 year 7 months
oocss
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