Finley Shaw

Senior Frontend Engineer at Wise · Web frontends · accessibility, CSS

Wise

London, UK · GMT (UTC+0)

9+ years experience

UCL

English, French

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Overview

9 years in software engineering, the last 3 at Wise, where I work on the web team. Wrote the CSS service that now handles 75 million requests a day. Before that: McKinsey & Company and NatWest. Most at home with accessibility and TypeScript. Coffee nerd.

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Mentors who have done this before
Thoughtful intros to people in my field
Second opinions on CSS decisions
Questions about web frontends

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SEO and link-building offers
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Answers in batches on Fridays

Skills

GraphQLReactaccessibilityTypeScriptCSS

LearningLearning something

closes in 3 months

Looking for feedback on my GitHub projects from someone in developer tools

Goal: Move from individual contributor to leading a small web team.
Where I am now: Working on it daily
Ideal mentor: Someone who has worked in web frontends for a few years
Cadence: Monthly
What I can offer back: Introductions in my college network

9 years in so far. Looking for honest feedback, once or twice a month.

London, UKreactaccessibilitycss

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Experience

Senior Frontend Engineer
Apr 2024 - Present
Wise · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · London, UK
- Mentored 9 engineers through their first promotion.
- Built the experimentation framework 23 product teams use to ship changes safely.
Frontend Engineer
Apr 2021 - Apr 2024
McKinsey & Company · 3 yr · Full-time · London, UK
- Wrote the React service that now handles 77 million requests a day.
Frontend Engineer
Dec 2018 - Apr 2021
NatWest · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · London, UK
- Shipped 23 launches on the web team without a rollback.
Frontend Engineer
Oct 2017 - Dec 2018
Sainsbury's · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · London, UK
- Cut the main bundle by 52% and got LCP under 1.8 seconds.
- Wrote the TypeScript service that now handles 30 million requests a day.

Projects

Open-source React toolkit

2026

A small library for web frontends that 612 developers star on GitHub.

Conference talk: lessons from web

2026

What went wrong and what worked while scaling web frontends.

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Education

UCL
BSc, Electrical Engineering
2013 - 2016

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