About

I'm Gareth Clubb, an Engineering Manager at CrowdStrike. I lead frontend teams building security tooling used by thousands of organisations worldwide.

My work focuses on improving how teams build and ship. That includes frontend architecture, UI quality, developer tooling and the systems that support them. The aim is to make delivery faster, more predictable and easier to maintain at scale.

I spend a lot of time working across teams, setting direction, aligning standards and removing friction. The goal is not just to ship features, but to build systems and teams that can sustain quality over time.

Background

Before CrowdStrike, I worked across media, travel, property and gaming.

At Telegraph Media Group, I helped modernise the frontend platform serving millions of readers. The focus was performance, rendering strategy and reducing the cost of change across a large content platform.

At Houseful, I led frontend architecture across multiple property brands. This involved consolidating shared UI systems, improving build performance and establishing accessibility standards adopted across the organisation.

Earlier in my career, I worked at TUI on booking and search platforms under high commercial pressure, where performance and reliability were critical. At Jagex, I worked on web tooling and player-facing platforms for large global communities.

How I think about engineering

The best frontend work is largely invisible. Fast interfaces, accessible systems and reliable behaviour should be the default.

The challenge is how you build systems that stay that way over time. That means making deliberate decisions early, keeping things simple and resisting unnecessary complexity.

I tend to favour approaches that work with the web platform rather than abstracting it away. Semantic HTML, progressive enhancement and careful use of JavaScript are not preferences. They are decisions that scale better over time.

What I focus on

  • Frontend architecture and platform strategy
  • UI quality, testing strategy and accessibility
  • Developer tooling, build systems and workflows
  • Performance, rendering and Core Web Vitals
  • Team structure, leadership and engineering culture

This site is where I write about these areas and share some of the products I've built. You can find me on GitHub or LinkedIn.