Craig Hawkes

Rebuilt the payment flow on Fiserv and led the platform's migration off legacy ASP.NET onto typed Next.js, with the estate trading throughout.

80% more mobile payments since launch

• 70% of that increase came through Apple Pay, across both single and continuous payments, on a Fiserv integration built end to end.
• Reduced a four-screen payment flow to one interaction with no loss of compliance coverage, worth roughly £500,000 a month more through the platform.
• Migrated off ASP.NET with a PCI-DSS estate of 97+ stored procedures live throughout. The platform never came down.
• Planned and ran the production cutover: three runbooks split by server to enforce ordering, and a backout procedure written before deployment rather than during it.

Next.js · TypeScript · ASP.NET · SQL Server · Fiserv

An enterprise design system and the applicant tracking product built on top of it, delivered single-handedly, with the accessibility claim enforced by gates rather than asserted in a document.

117 components · 26 ATS workflows · 0 axe violations · Solo build

• Every component ships with a unit test, a Storybook story and a documentation page, and all of it was delivered solo across two full rebuilds.
• Took a WCAG 2.2 AAA claim from an assertion to a register: 4 criteria enforced by test, 13 met, 3 exceptions published, 0 outstanding. 0 axe violations across 174 routes.
• Ran the build to a documented seven-phase framework, and produced 47 supporting documents. 18 research papers, 3 audit reports and a 14-document handover pack.
• Built with agent tooling throughout, held to the same gates as any other contributor. Rules and MCP servers live in the repo, and nothing merges unread.

React · Next.js · TypeScript · Tailwind · HeroUI · React Aria · Turborepo

Founded and still run an independent studio, taking clients from the first conversation through to deployment and the support that follows it.

8+ years · 50+ clients

• Build and ship production front ends in React, Next.js and Tailwind, plus custom WordPress themes, Shopify storefronts and PHP back ends.
• Take clients from first conversation through to deployment and post-launch support, rather than handing off at the design file.

React · Next.js · TypeScript · Tailwind · Shopify · WordPress · PHP

Ran the web department for a property education group and the partner businesses selling alongside it, with every funnel, course platform and event page in the group coming through the team.

• Personally accountable for over £10m of revenue generated through the direct web funnels and event pages the department ran.
• Hired three of the team and co-managed the seven: five videographers, a junior web designer and a social media intern.
• Built four course-launch platforms end to end in WordPress and custom PHP, including ClickFunnels and Klaviyo integration.
• Shipped full-stack to WCAG accessibility standards, and rebuilt the campaign infrastructure: open rates up 60%, cold-outreach replies up 27%.

WordPress · PHP · JavaScript · HTML/CSS · Klaviyo · ClickFunnels

Built conversion-focused sites and marketing systems across an agency client portfolio, three or four concurrently, to fixed deadlines.

• Developed custom WordPress themes and plugins in PHP, moving clients off template-builder setups onto purpose-built front ends.

Sole designer for six years as the company scaled from startup to established brand, owning every surface from packaging to the e-commerce storefront.

• Designed and maintained the e-commerce storefront and product catalogues alongside the full brand system.
• Recruited and developed an apprentice from junior to running the social channel outright.