Curriculum Vitae

Experience

• Senior Engineer

  Loan.co.uk

  August 2022 - Present

  Fully Remote (Chichester / Bournemouth)

  My role involves maintaining, innovating, and monitoring codebases & systems for the core product & associated services. In this role I'm responsible for ensuring that our tech stack is kept clean, modern, efficient, reliable, and secure through regular code review, scrutinising external dependencies, and regular maintenance of codebases. Key responsibilities include BAU development, code review, peer support, supervising releases & deployments, reviewing codebase health, priority investigations, etc. Key achievements involved a major upgrade from Symfony 4.4 to 5.4 for the core product, upgrading from PHP 7 to 8 for essential services, improving the continuous integration pipelines to monitor & mitigate failures, a wholesale revamp of the testing suites, and many more.

• Senior Developer

  Shavekit

  January 2021 - June 2022

  Fully Remote

  Write well-tested code in a modern technology stack; participate in meetings, code reviews and retrospectives with the team; work closely with the CTO to make architecture and design decisions; help make sure everything runs smoothly & safely in production; set down standards around development, code review and deployment.

• Software Engineering Consultant

  Self Employed - Contract

  August 2021 - Present

  Fully remote

  Working directly with ecommerce-oriented businesses through short-medium term contracts to improve their technical delivery programmes, migrating away from legacy platforms & architectures, and mentoring development teams to write efficient & clean code using best practices.

• Fullstack Developer

  Unipro Ltd

  March 2017 - August 2020

  Chichester, West Sussex

  At Unipro, I have worked across the business with huge clients to modernise & improve their digital products using waterfall & agile scrum methodologies. I've had a list of rotating responsibilities at Unipro including leading Symfony/Laravel development, release management, automated test training, continuous integration & continuous delivery implementations, Angular/React/StencilJS development, and organising workshops. I have had the opportunity to create & run internal workshops on training and technology that we use, as well as implementing best practices & standards.

• Backend Developer

  D3R

  June 2014 - March 2017

  Chichester, West Sussex

  At D3R I was developing exciting solutions, integrating services, and solving challenging problems with a range of established and luxurious brands. I primarily worked as a backend PHP developer with a great team for their largest client; this mostly involved general performance enhancements, developing new features, integrating with third-party APIs, refining the admin experience, and fixing the inevitable bug or two. I was involved with creating, enhancing, and optimising business-critical processes including real-time inventory & stock management, supply chain management, order & fulfilment, trade customer interface, and external service integrations.

• Frontend Developer

  Joules

  February 2012 - June 2014

  Market Harborough, Leicestershire

  I began working at Joules as a Junior HTML Developer whilst in my second year of college (3 days college, 2 days work) and went full time after I had completed college. Initially, I was responsible for creating HTML emails, updating website content, and to automate a process to resize & upload product images for the entire website catalogue across all territories. As I learnt more, my role changed to include more responsibilities such as updating CSS/JS on the website, creating interactive & feature-rich landing pages, writing Hybris Queries to perform bulk operations on the website, and developing internal efficiency apps -- which saved several hours of manual work each week.