Jake Nichols — Senior FrontendDeveloper.
I’m a Senior Frontend Developer at Quickfire Digital, based in Norwich, UK. I bring a designer’s eye, a full-stack mindset, and 12 years of professional development experience to websites and interactive tools — with a focus on usability, performance, and code that teams can build on.
Selected work
A few things I've worked on.
Agency projects, with a focus on what I contributed.
Games Workshop
Led development on several Next.js microsites and contributed to the main Warhammer 40,000 WordPress site rebuild.
Queen Mary University of London
Built a Mapbox-powered interface for exploring the global impact of university research, with case-study filtering and an interactive map.
GoStudent
Built an interactive data visualisation experience for a European education survey, translating research into an accessible interface on a tight delivery schedule.
Read the agency case study
Client websites change over time. These summaries describe my contribution at the time; the linked case study is published by Soak Digital.
Experience & approach
12 years in development.
My first job at 18 was as a developer. Twelve years on, I'm a Senior Frontend Developer at Quickfire Digital, with experience across both building websites and keeping them running.
- Breadth built on doing the work
- Email marketing, WordPress, Symfony, managed hosting and design collaboration have all been part of the job. Shopify is my main focus today, alongside a working toolkit that includes React, Next.js, JavaScript and TypeScript.
- Comfortable with clients
- I enjoy the conversations around a build as much as the technical work: understanding what someone needs, explaining the choices and making the trade-offs clear.
- Happy to speak up
- If I think an approach will cause problems, I’ll say so and explain why. I’d rather work through a difficult question early and help find a better route.
Contact
Get in touch.
If you'd like to get in touch about my work, you can send me a message here.