Well hi. I'm Rob Kendal, a freelance full-stack developer and UI engineer based in sunny Yorkshire. I build a variety of things for a variety of people using fancy tools, frameworks, platforms and libraries including:
- React
- JavaScript
- Next.js
- Astro
- HTML/CSS
- Node
- Serverless stacks
- ...and a ton of other bits and bobs
You can always take a look at my helpful articles on my website.
I run K-Tech (my trading name), a small-but-mighty freelance development team specialising in Jamstack development and web apps built with React and on top of headless content management systems, such as GraphCMS, Astro JS, and Storyblock to name a few.
I'm also a Shopify partner so I love to help clients get their business online by building custom Shopify themes, apps, and managing their ecommerce websites.
I try to spend as much time as I can helping the dev community by:
- Writing helpful articles on web development.
- Producing a Beginner's Guide to React, a self-study online course dedicated to helping beginners start out with React.
- Publishing books such as my FREE title, Aspire to Hired!, all about starting to code and landing a dev job.
- Publishing a podcast, The Front End.
Sure do, very glad you asked!
I have a bunch of different repos on here, but the ones you might find most helpful/interesting include:
Yep and yep. You can read my latest articles below.
- How to use contact forms with headless WordPress and Next.js
- React, Angular and Vue compared, which should you learn in 2021?
- Signs to lookout for if you suspect you've ended up in the wrong career
- Things I wish I'd known as a junior developer
- Create a Next.js RSS feed for your static website
- Using WordPress as a headless CMS with Next.js
Sure thing; you got it!
I got into computers (and video games) from an early age. Although I liked maths and science, computers were always my first love.
My first real job was in a school as a network technician, building machines for classrooms and looking after the general network infrastructure. From there, I found my way into the ambulance service, working as part of a team to manage and support the Yorkshire Ambulance Service IT infrastructure.
It was in the ambulance service where I fell into web development – it's more common of a starting story than you might think! I learnt asp.net – in it's original 2.0 flavour – using Visual Basic and moving onto C#.
After building a number of internal web systems, I found myself doing less infrastructure support and more development.
That was it for me, the defining moment where I knew I wanted to develop all the things! I moved into the commercial sector, moving around a few creative agencies and working with some super-talented people, hopefully learning as much from them along the way.
More recently, I co-founded a creative marketing agency and managed HubSpot campaigns for some local business heroes as well as some bigger players, such as North Yorkshire County Council. We even won some awards for our work!
Right now, I'm very excited to be working on a range of projects involving React and Node JS. I enjoy blogging, presenting at events (and sharing as much knowledge as I can), and learning something new every day.
I also run a web development podcast called The Front End which is available on Anchor podcasts.
Erm....not really. If you like rock music, I also play guitar and have some recordings kicking around on SoundCloud.