Optimising the Web – A Front End Talk

On 11th April 2018 at The Financial Times as part of Optimising the Web – A Front End Talk

Understanding the various stages of how the browser builds the DOM, how to optimise HTML, CSS and JS, how networking plays a part and what AMP and PWAs add to the performance landscape. This is a very technical but pretty high level talk that intends to introduce the audience to virtually every topic they would wish to deep dive into in the future.

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Presented by

Sanjay Purswani

Full stack web developer with a flair for the front end and past lives in design and animation. Senior Software Engineer at comparethemarket.com

@sanj9000

Open source contributor to Facebook's React, Google's AMP, Google's Lighthouse and many other projects.

Full stack Software Engineer on the Marketing-Tech team with a preference for Javascript and the front end. Maintaining and upgrading the codebase and working on new major marketing campaigns for comparethemarket.com

- AMP, React, Redux, ES6, Webpack
- Javascript, JQuery, Angular 1.5, Knockout
- HTML, CSS, SCSS/BEM
- C# MVC.NET
- EPiServer CMS
- Test automation, A/B & MVT testing
- UI/UX

My team build, run and own over 2,000 content-manageable pages under the comparethemarket.com domain, we serve hundreds of thousands of page views a day that feed our users into price-saving journeys that saved the British public £1.8 Billion last year.

We pair, test, peer review and handle our code through the release pipeline in to production where we monitor, maintain and iterate on it.

Major campaigns include:

Meerkat Movies.
Disney and Lucasfilm's Star Wars franchise.
Warner Bros DC-Comics franchise.
ITV's Coronation Street.
Disney's Frozen.

Event

Optimising the Web – A Front End Talk

Date

11th April 2018

Skill level

Beginner / Intermediate