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• Senior Full-Stack Engineer, Layer8

  Mar, 2023 - Jul, 20234 months

  Middleware platform provider to integrate and automate disparate tech systems within the commercial real estate domain for management purposes

  • Architecting, designing and building a web app management platform from scratch. Including every aspect of product development, from high-level interaction design, to code-level implementation

  • Conducting expert interviews to inform the product design

  • Creating several high-fidelity prototypes in Figma

  • Putting together a design language for the product in terms of a repeatable, intuitive UX

  • Building multiple specialised, versatile interfaces, often integrating several 3rd party apps in order to enhance them e.g. mapbox, Archilogic, D3

  • Collaborating over data model design, including creating mock APIs to refine our schemas

• Senior Front End Developer, SilverRail

  Sep, 2022 - Feb, 20235 months

  Developer of technology to help rail operators and travel agencies via apps and services

  • Working on a rapidly developed web app with a fully remote team across multiple time zones

  • Encouraging an improved culture of communication and shared responsibility across the team

  • Encouraging a pragmatic approach to managing an increasing amount of technical debt whilst also delivering new features in a transparent and timely manner

• Senior Software Engineer, Rightmove

  Mar, 2021 - Jul, 20221 year 4 months

  A real estate network primarily serving the UK property market

  • Architecting and driving a tech debt “get well” project. This involved extensive documentation as well as giving presentations to various departments in the business in order to educate and inform about its value

  • Driving change around team process/culture/communication. Encouraging discussions around forming better api-client contracts and technical design ahead of feature work

  • Leading a drive to increase engagement within the company’s front-end community by researching various topics and endeavouring to make them appealing and accessible

  • Mentoring several less experienced devs via pair programming and rubber ducking

  • Actively participating in engineering-wide meetings to solve problems across the entire tech stack and facilitating new initiatives whilst making suggestions in how to best leverage practical actions as a result of those meetings

  • Constantly providing constructive feedback to the business in order to improve dev working conditions

• Senior Front-End Developer, Dare

  Oct, 2016 - Feb, 20214 years 4 months

  A leading commodities trading firm specialising in global energy markets

  • Being the sole front-end developer building a large, complex SPA over the course of 4 years involving making use of many different technologies

  • Working in an environment where autonomy, independence and trust were paramount; allowing for a great deal of freedom when solving problems

  • Using an MQTT broker to send client-to-client updates for a spreadsheet app

  • Leveraging websockets extensively to create dynamic data feeds

  • Building a standalone Electron version of the app; to give greater control over multiple window layouts

  • Using UX and design skills to tailor specialised UIs to accomplish complicated business tasks whilst also maintaining intuitive usability

  • Heading up a recruitment effort for new developers including conducting pair-programming interviews

• Front-End Developer, OfficeServe

  Apr, 2016 - Oct, 20166 months

  A food delivery website focused on providing catering for office events

  • Working as part of a two-person web app team who were responsible for building all functionality and design for the site launch

  • First greenfield project where I was able to use React to build a SPA from scratch to production

  • Learning how to properly integrate analytics software into a SPA

  • Working alongside developers from other platforms (Android, iOS) and getting an insight into their process

• Front-End Developer, Concrete

  Jun, 2012 - Mar, 20163 years 9 months

  A software company specialising in retail productivity. By using a suite of webapps international retailers can plan, build and deliver a range of various campaigns, literature and information to every retail outlet in their network. All information and requirements are centralised in one place and personalised. Improving the control and visibility of how their brand is delivered to their customers.

  • Being part of a team responsible for creating the next iteration of the platform using an all Javascript stack

  • Experimenting with fun new techs on hack-days (WebGL, web-sockets)

  • Experimenting with rendering a gantt chart in 3D with three.js

  • Constantly collaborating/discussing with team members about emerging techs and frameworks

  • Pairing/mentoring other developers on a regular basis

  • Taking on scrum master duties and refining the team's agile process

  • Leveraging the latest CSS frameworks to implement mobile-first design

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