Lewis Saunders

A little more about me 

Hi, I'm Lewis

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I'm a full-stack engineer running a freelance technical consultancy, focused on building responsive, scalable, and beautifully designed digital products. With over five years of experience across media, insurance, and health technology, I've developed a strong technical foundation to turn complex product goals into polished, production-ready applications.

My core technical stack involves React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, PostgreSQL, and Vercel. I care deeply about modern web architecture—ensuring blazingly fast load times via React Server Components, clean API integrations with Next.js, and perfectly accessible user interfaces.

Currently, I partner directly with founders, agencies, and small businesses to deliver full-stack website creation, architectural audits, and embedded MVP development. If you need a dependable, communicative engineering partner to bring your vision online without the overhead of a full-time hire, I'd love to help.

Lewis Saunders
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Monthly users on ITV News

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Years as a software engineer

Industries worked across

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Experience 

  • Digital Developer @Hastings Direct

    April 2025 - Current | Bexhill, UK

    Delivered customer-facing journeys across the Hastings Direct platform, with a focus on the digital renewals journey and the new quote and buy experience. Worked on responsive front-end solutions that supported reliable user flows and improved key insurance journeys.

  • Frontend Engineer @Health Data Research UK

    2024-2025 | London, UK

    Development and maintenance of dynamic web applications using Next.js, Typescript and Material UI, ensuring high performance, SEO optimisation, meeting accessibility standards and matching UI/UX designs. Creation of API routes on the backend, whilst implementing functionality for database manipulation.

  • Frontend Engineer @ITV

    2022-2024 | London, UK

    Taking part in the development of responsive and user-friendly web applications, ensuring a seamless user experience across these different applications working on ITVX Browser, ITVX Connected TV & the ITV News website. Collaborating with UX/UI designers to translate design mockups and wireframes into quality code.

  • Software Development Engineer in Test @ITV

    2020-2022 | London, UK

    Oversee the QA process for Account Management on the ITV Hub. Contributing to, and maintaining, automated testing frameworks for ITV web & mobile applications, ensuring comprehensive coverage of functional and non-functional requirements. Ruby was the main tech used in this role.

  • Technology Graduate @ITV

    2019-2020 | London, UK

    Rotate around a variety of different departments to obtain a deeper understanding of different technology stacks and to understand the infrastructure of ITV, gaining context on how different teams/departments work together.

For further details of my past experience or to discuss working together, feel free to Get in Touch.

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If you need a website, React or Next.js support, or ongoing front-end help, send over a brief, timeline, and rough budget and I'll come back with the best next step.

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