Grace Hayhurst

With over 15 years of software engineering experience in the tech industry, specialising in startups, media, and more, I come with a vast variety of skills with my history of employment. I am quick, agile, enthusiastic, and always ready to jump into the IDE to get hands on with coding.

From server side and infrastructure to back end development, from team leading and project management to DevOps, from external business advice to startup companies, to working with existing business to professionalise their internal development processes and pipelines, I've done it all to a high standard across a number of sectors in permanent, contract, and freelance roles.

I am primarily a PHP developer (since 2007) working in LAMP stack, with the ability to take on frontend and backend work, as well as having in-depth knowledge of modern tooling such as PHPStan, Grunt, Composer, SASS, and more - as well as recent developments in the PHP language as I always ensure the platforms I manage are kept up to date. I’m also proficient in Javascript, CSS/SASS, jQuery, OOP, and MVC.

For a more in-depth look at my skills, employment history, and professional experience...

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by Physiopedia

At Physiopedia, I guide the direction of the entire team and how solutions to business challenges are implemented. This means working as a full-stack developer on all aspects of the codebase, overseeing the work of other developers, providing expert guidance in response to customer needs and market direction, as well as taking ownership for the quality and stability of our software.

The technical development lead for building, maintaining, and upgrading the Physioplus e-learning platform as a part of the ReLAB-HS project.

  • ACF
  • Bootstrap
  • CSS3
  • Chart.JS
  • HTML5
  • MVC
  • Javascript
  • jQuery
  • OOP
  • PHP
  • WordPress

Tanya Goodin

After working with Tanya on some technical problems with her podcast, she came to me with a proposal for a re-design of her entire website.

Tanya found a top notch designer, and I took the time to implement their designs allow for Tanya to showcase her books, podcast, and publications in a modern and polished fashion - whilst also optimising parts of the website to load faster.

  • CSS3
  • Divi
  • HTML5
  • Javascript
  • jQuery
  • Mailchimp
  • PHP
  • Wordpress

EthicAI

EthicAI is a recently launched startup business that required a new website to be built entirely from scratch.

Having being provided with Figma templates for the design, I worked with the client to create the entire site from scratch using Divi - so that the client could easily retain editorial ownership of the website as time went on.

A great deal of custom styling, as well as small amount of custom JS, was required to meet the design guidelines and deliver a polished website for which the business to advertise their services with.

  • CSS3
  • Divi
  • HTML5
  • Javascript
  • jQuery
  • Mailchimp
  • PHP
  • Wordpress

Grace is one of those very rare people who sees problems as challenges and opportunities - as a client, that’s incredibly refreshing to work with. She’s worked on two projects for me to date, migrating a podcast between hosts and a full website migration, (incl new design and functionality implementation). She’s a total pleasure to deal with; a responsive and clear communicator; a creative problem solver; someone who has precise attention to detail and who takes pride in delivering the highest quality of work. I couldn’t recommend her more highly.

Tanya Goodin EthicAI Founder

QueerAF

Having now worked with the founder of QueerAF for a decade on various projects at various companies, I sit as the person behind all the code for the website being their first point of call for any technical issues.

When we intially stared working on this site together, the Ghost platform was in somewhat on an infancy so many custom features available I build at the request of the client before they were later implemented by Ghost themselves.

  • CSS3
  • Handlebars
  • HTML5
  • Ghost CMS
  • Javascript
  • jQuery
  • Stripe

I trust Grace; without her, our business wouldn't be as successful as it is. Her customisation for our Ghost hosted website has elevated our sales, memberships and email subscriptions. Grace always gives more than you'd expect and deeply cares about our work. She is excellent at responding to bugs and issues with urgency knowing how business critical it is to keep our site online and working for the customer.

Jamie Wareham QueerAF Founder

Sensible Music

Sensible Music went through a re-branding exercise in 2024 and required an entirely new website. I came up with the design, and implemented it using Blade, Bootstrap, and a healthy amount of CSS.

I also spent time taking photographs for the business for their website of clients, rooms, and equipment for them to be able to showcase their premium offerings in an easy to digest manner.

  • Bootstrap
  • Blade
  • CSS3
  • HTML5
  • Mailchimp

Grace Hayhurst

Hey wait a minute... It's that me?

Yes. As well as being a proficient web developer stroke software engineer, I'm also a highly competent musician. My own creative endevours required their own portfolio website, and thus I created this one.

I kept things 'simple' by coding up a custom WordPress theme from scratch as I thought I may want to take advantage of various sales plugins down the line such as Shopify for merchandising - despite most of the code being entirely raw PHP and HTML.

  • Bootstrap
  • CSS3
  • HTML5
  • Javascript
  • jQuery
  • PHP
  • WordPress

Gay Star News

I worked with Gay Star News to streamline their site, decrease load times, and implement custom payment subscription features and more.

This involved refactoring most of the theme as I was presented with a lot of superfluous code from Drupal that had been copied and pasted into the WordPress theme without much regard for code quality.

  • CSS3
  • HTML5
  • Javascript
  • jQuery
  • Stripe
  • WordPress

I am very proud to have managed Grace during her time. Her ability to be organised and prepared for all meetings, consistently bringing solutions with her to any problems identified, meant that progress was constant and moved ahead quickly.

David Young Gay Star News

Audioboom PLC

AudioBoom needed a simple straight-forward website for compliance purposes for their listing on the London Stock Exchange so I put together this site very quickly for them using brand colours.

  • CSS3
  • HTML5
  • WordPress

Grace is a proactive problem solver and fast learner. She took on a great variety of responsibilities at Audioboom and was diligently committed to each of them, from handling technical partnerships, to data analysis, to managing podcast recording studios. You should hire her.

Jonathan Del Strother Audioboom CTO and Founder

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