Freelance engineer & designer — Liverpool, UK

I build websitesthat work hardand show off.

Seven years building things for the web — for scrappy startups, busy agencies and a few household-name brands. I live where the pretty design meets the gnarly engineering, and I'm taking on freelance projects right now: online stores, content tools, and the occasional gloriously weird idea.

/ 01 — Selected capabilities

A few things I'm good at.

Online stores that sell

Product pages, carts and checkout on Stripe and Shopify — built to take real money on your busiest day without breaking a sweat. The boring reliability you actually want.

stripeshopifycarts
Storefront & cart live — have a play
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Field Bowl
Stoneware · L
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/ 02 — Recent work

Things I've shipped.

Fluid power · headless commerce

Flowtech

A high-throughput store for a UK fluid-power specialist — thousands of parts searchable by code, brand or tech sheet, with trade pricing, next-day delivery and same-day despatch. Vendure drives the commerce, Payload the content, all containerised on Kubernetes across AWS and built as a white-label platform ready to spin up new storefronts.

Next.jsTypeScriptPayload CMSVendureAWSKubernetesTailwind
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Flowtech homepage
/ 03 — How I work

No surprises, just good work.

01

We start with a chat

Bring me the idea — even if it's still half-baked. I'll tell you straight what's a day's work, what's a month, and what's honestly not worth building at all.

02

You see it every week

No three-month silences and a big reveal. Working bits land regularly, so we catch the wrong turns early and never drift off down a rabbit hole.

03

I sweat the small stuff

The animations, the copy, the fiddly edge cases — that last ten percent is what makes something feel proper. It's baked into the price, not bolted on at the end.

/ 04 — Kind words

What people say.

Working with Aiden was an absolute pleasure. Not only a talented developer who consistently exceeded our expectations, but also a really great team player. Highly recommend.
Lizzie HindleCEO, Round World Digital
Aiden slotted in to our fast-paced team very well. His experience and ingenuity with Next.js, and willingness to educate and support others, made him a pleasure to work with.
Paul GregorySolutions Architect / Tech Lead, Access
Aiden is a skilled React developer — efficient, and he always got things done. Plus he made the work environment nicer with his positive attitude. Highly recommend him!
Ismael Abu-jadurFront-end Developer, Access
/ Contact

Got something
in mind? Let's build it.

Tell me a little about the project — even a rough idea is plenty. I read every message and usually reply within a day.

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