Andy Broomfield

Brighton Based Tecnologist and Full Stack Web Developer

About me

Experienced in Drupal, Wordpress, Codeigniter, CSS, Javascript (including React) and good old fashioned semantic HTML. Alongside this I have a focus on UX and Interaction Design make development focused on the people that use the tech I build.

Currently leading Drupal development at Brighton & Hove City Council. Helping to build LocalGov Drupal.

I was part responsible for building The People Who Share website, on behalf of a charity that helps to promote the sharing economy; Global Sharing Week, a week long festival of sharing on behalf of The People Who Share & Shareable; Kitchen Door Workshop, a place to order replacement and updated kitchen components. I previouly helped create Makerhood, a community of Makers in south London; Ruumi, a former network for houesharers in London; Dadamac, a UK and Africa connections organisation with a focus on Nigeria. In addition these projects I have helped build a variety of websites for agencies and clients. and acted as a technical and design consultant on commercial and community projects.

I've also been involed in community groups, from the early Space Makers network in Brixton Village Market and West Norwood Feast, through to Brighton Based WLT/Make, a tech and artist group and meet up. I once spent a summer helping at the Treehouse gallery in Regents park, and was once known as the archivst to the Institute of collapsonomics.

I've given talks at PHP Sussex, Localgov Drupal week, Localgov Drupal dev days, Drupal camp Cemaes.

I graduated with a masters from the Design interactions programme at the Royal college of Art in 2008, and a bachelors in Visual communications from the Birmingham institute of art and design in 2005.

My pronouns are They / Them.