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About the founder

Jordan Gilbert — Technical Founder & Builder.

Engineer turned builder, then operator. I’m a programmer with over 10 years of experience shipping production small-business websites, alongside roles as Technical Co-Founder and Interim CTO for early-stage startups.

My work sits at the intersection of architectural systems thinking, software engineering, and applied digital infrastructure.

Portrait of Jordan Gilbert, Technical Co-Founder & Interim CTO, TicketWave HQ
Jordan Gilbert — Technical Co-Founder & Interim CTO, TicketWave HQ; founder of UK Web Marketing.
  • Loughborough Architectural Engineering & Design Management (BSc)
  • HarvardX GSD1x: The Architectural Imagination
  • 10+ years Production small-business websites
  • Technical Co-Founder Interim CTO, early-stage startups

Academic & technical foundation

Engineering at Loughborough; architectural imagination at Harvard.

BSc · Loughborough University

Architectural Engineering & Design Management

Focus: architectural design development, computational and parametric modelling workflows, integrated engineering and construction management, interdisciplinary collaboration, and BIM-driven common data environments.

HarvardX · Harvard University (via Harvard Graduate School of Design)

GSD1x: The Architectural Imagination

Study in architectural theory, spatial reasoning, and conceptual design frameworks. Instructor: K. Michael Hays.

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How this informs my work

Architectural training applied to software systems.

This combination of architectural training and systems engineering defines my approach. I treat every build as a system, not a surface — optimised for clarity, speed, and long-term maintainability.

  1. Systems-first design logic

    Every build is treated as a system, not a surface — components, constraints, and the relationships between them, before any aesthetic decision.

  2. Performance-led engineering execution

    Architecture and tooling chosen for measurable outcomes: sub-second loads, near-perfect Core Web Vitals, and predictable behaviour at scale.

  3. Structurally minimal digital architecture

    Fewer moving parts, fewer dependencies, less to break. Clarity, speed, and long-term maintainability over feature-count.

How I got here

Weebly → Wix → WordPress → systems over tools.

A progression toward control, performance, and architectural clarity.

Early work

Weebly, then Wix

First exposure to building on the web came through Weebly in school, then Wix. The defining constraint was speed: reducing the gap between intent and deployment to near zero. That constraint shaped my approach more than any tool.

Sixth form

WordPress — scale without structure

By sixth form I was building WordPress sites for small organisations and personal projects. It scaled quickly, but introduced structural fragility — plugin dependency, theme coupling, and unpredictable maintenance overhead. The systems worked, but lacked ownership.

University

Systems over tools

At university I returned to fundamentals: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript from first principles. This reframed the web as a system of constraints rather than a set of platforms. From there I moved into modern frameworks — React, Next.js, Astro — selected not for trend, but for architectural control and performance characteristics.

What I operate

Two systems in parallel.

  1. TicketWave HQ Ltd

    A UK-registered platform company building booking, ordering, and ticketing infrastructure for small businesses.

  2. UK Web Marketing (studio practice)

    A delivery studio building production websites and integrating those systems for UK SMEs, supported by a small bench of trusted collaborators.

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Talk directly

No account managers. Just me.

The fastest way to reach me is WhatsApp — same-hour reply during working time. Or read about the company side at /about.

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