Graeme Byrne

Designed and built a production website for an accounting firm using Next.js, with server-rendered/static pages, responsive UI and client enquiry functionality. Implemented local SEO and Core Web Vitals optimization, achieving 95+ Lighthouse performance and SEO scores and <1.5s LCP on mobile.

Built and deployed Node.js/Express services on AWS for an identity-verification product processing 10k+ verifications/month, handling sensitive personal data in a regulated flow. Designed and shipped automated recovery for recurring production failures, covering ~90% of failed cases and cutting manual intervention on a mission-critical flow.

Built the official 26th UN Tourism General Assembly website using React, Node.js/Express, translating Figma designs into production components alongside product, design and QA within a fixed 6-week delivery period. Developed REST endpoints and accessible, internationalised UI for delegates across 114 countries and 6 languages.

Led migration to a modular frontend architecture for a large, data-dense application, reducing median page-load time by 40% through rendering and asset-delivery optimisation. Diagnosed and resolved production frontend/integration issues end-to-end, reducing mean time to resolution by ~30% from reproduction through deployment.

Completed the Full Stack Developer Career Path in 2025.

Completed the Frontend Developer Career Path in 2022.

Completed the JavaScript Data Structures and Algorithms certification in 2022.

Master of Arts degree from Queen's University Belfast, completed in 2011.

Bachelor of Arts degree from Ulster University, completed in 2010.