Hello there, I'm George Griffiths.

I write about and work with web technologies.

Feel free to give me a follow on Twitter @griffadev.

Things I've worked on

I'm a Lead Frontend Developer and Computer Science graduate currently working for an exciting Cybersecurity education company called Immersive Labs 🙂.

In addition to my professional work and blog posts, in my spare time I've worked on some projects and experiments, using various technologies.
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Career

Lead Frontend Developer - Immersive Labs
I got promoted!! 🎉 - Leading aspects of engineering strategy and working with others building solutions to solve customer problems. Forever a coder at heart though!

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Web Component

copy-component
A zero dependency vanilla custom element that adds the capability to wrap html so it the inner text can be added to the users clipboard.

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Career

Senior Frontend Developer - Immersive Labs
Developing frontend experiences for the Immersive Labs cyber security education platform. Utilising Web Technologies (JS/HTML/CSS) as well as TypeScript and React.

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Website

CG Guitar Tuition
I designed, built and maintain the website for my brothers Guitar teaching business. Uses 11ty and Web Components.

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Library

query-selector-shadow-dom
NPM package I created and maintained. It's a utility which helps with testing Web Components using Shadow DOM. In 2022 I transferred ownership to WebDriver.io as I was no longer actively working in this space.

github 226 stars 761k weekly Source
Website

griffa.dev
My personal website, which I designed and built to host my blog posts, experiments and libraries. Uses 11ty and Web Components.

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experiment

Converting an image to a css grid
This an experiment where I use a custom element to convert an uploaded image to css grid format. Uses Lit (Web Components).

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Test Framework

CodeceptJS
Supercharged End 2 End testing. Contributor/open source development team member. Implementing features, issues triage, pull request reviews and preparing releases.

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experiment

Natural language post search
An experiment exploring the use of Machine learning for searching blog posts using Tensorflow.

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Career

Software Engineer - IBM
I worked as a Frontend focused Software engineer at IBM for 3 years, working in Cloud Integration. Focused on Web Technologies including Node.JS and React as well as developed internal Automated Test Framework using CodeceptJS.

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Career

Software Developer - IDBS
I worked as a Software developer at IBM for 4 years, which gave me my start in tech 😊. Commercial experience writing enterprise Java applications as well as Web Technologies including Web Components.

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