Close to the Door
A free app for finding accessible parking, built by a Disabled developer with Disabled people.
- Role
- Founder and sole developer
- When
- 2025 to present

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Ryan Duncan, senior frontend engineer
I have built frontends for nine years and hold an MSc in Cyber Security with distinction. I also audit web applications for accessibility, and I work remotely from Scotland.

I spent nearly six years at agencies before Fruugo, a marketplace, where I lead the frontend of the retailer-onboarding tools. Lately I have also been building for Disabled people, which includes me. I am a Disabled driver, and Close to the Door started with my own problem: a painted symbol on the tarmac says nothing about whether the space suits my needs.
Along the way I led a team of four and completed an MSc in Cyber Security with distinction alongside the day job. Since 2025 I have also audited the web applications of European banks and retailers for an accessibility consultancy, which taught me to write a finding that an engineer can act on without asking me what I meant.
A free app for finding accessible parking, built by a Disabled developer with Disabled people.

Retailer onboarding and finance tools for a marketplace selling into more than 40 countries, on an accessible component library.
A personal site for a CEO, speaker and author, with accessibility and performance checked on every change.
WCAG 2.1 and 2.2 audits of large web applications for European banks and retailers, for an accessibility consultancy.
Twelve Disabled drivers and passengers tested Close to the Door over two rounds, and most of the best decisions in that codebase came from them.
Slow pages cost the people on old phones and poor connections first. The budget covers size and speed, it is checked on every change, and a miss is fixed in the page rather than by raising the budget.
I completed an MSc in Cyber Security with distinction in 2024. On the frontend that means a content security policy, dependencies checked for known vulnerabilities, and untrusted input cleaned before it reaches the page. When a penetration test of Close to the Door showed row-level security leaking data, I closed the database to clients, and every write now goes through an edge function that checks the token, rate-limits and validates.
At Fruugo I deploy and monitor my own changes to production weekly. I introduced Vitest and Playwright there and put axe and IBM Equal Access checks into the pipeline, so a change is tested before it goes out and watched after it does.
At Aspect Digital I led a team of four and brought in code review standards, automated testing pipelines and mentoring for the junior developers. At Fruugo I started the company’s accessibility group and built its internal training tools.
Twelve Disabled drivers and passengers put Close to the Door through two research phases. What they taught us about navigation, silent failures, text scaling and honest data applies to any mobile team.
Close to the Door is now live. I am a software engineer and a Disabled driver, and this is why I built an accessible-parking app for us and how it came about.
Whether it’s to chat or to discuss future work, email is the best way to reach me.