Hi there! I'm Ash, a front-end developer at StatusCake. I've been part of the team since January 2022, and in that time I've managed to work across just about every part of StatusCake’s front-end offerings.

I first started my career in late 2015 as a Technical Project Manager at a web agency. I'd originally interviewed for a developer role, but a combination of me being wholly unqualified and the competition being suitably qualified led to me being unsuccessful. Luckily, I'd made enough of an impression that when a PM role opened up a few months later, they got in touch to see if I fancied giving it a go.

I enjoyed the PM role (most of the time, anyway) but it was always my ambition to be a dev. I'd work on little projects in my spare time, pester my developer colleagues for tips and tricks, and volunteer for any kind of techy task that I could convince people to let me do. Eventually, after a few years, the opportunity arose for me to migrate from PM to dev and I took it with both hands.

I've loved my time as a dev. I've worked on a whole variety of projects and within a range of tech stacks and team sizes. I was super interested to join StatusCake when I saw that they were looking to expand the team. I really liked the idea of working on projects where we're our own stakeholder and where the results of my work stick with me rather than just handing them off to a client and never seeing them again. There's something very satisfying about releasing a change and watchings its impact.

In my spare time I'm an avid reader - I'll give anything that's got a wizard in it a go. I like to golf in the warm months and stay inside waiting for the warm months in the cold months. I live in Bedfordshire with my wife and our cat, Rufus. Here he is enjoying himself on the table in our conservatory that he is absolutely not allowed on: