A Full Stack Developer with 6 professional experience.
perm_identityHe / Him
roomBased in Ipswich, UK
I would describe myself as creative, intellectual and a dreamer. I enjoy drawing up cool new projects from spontanious ideas, as well as pondering about life's many questions and probably have way too many interests, hobbies and aspirations!
My skills and passions. Confidence bars show my confidence, out of 5.
I took to art and design from a young age and have always dabbled in design work. Coupled with frontend development, this has enabled me to work efficiently with designers when crafting solutions.
My experience ranges from designing my own websites, games and graphics to implementing designs crafted by professionals across a plethora of design languages, patterns and systems.
I am deeply rooted in frontend web development and as such I am familiar with a great deal of frontend languages, frameworks and libraries.
I have also used a few design systems and my ever-growing UI and UX design skill set bring a lot into my development skill set.
As a full stack developer, I enjoy both facets of web development equally. I have been well acquainted with the development of APIs and CGIs thoughout my career.
Databases are an important technology in any stack and as such, I have had a lot experience in designing and building database schemas for production ready systems.
I have a well developed but malleable development workflow and have been known to write Bash scripts for as many manual tasks as I can! I believe that automating repetitive manual tasks is key to efficiency.
I am familiar with managing code using Git or SVN and have set up and used countless Git repos, both locally and remotely. I have a deep knowledge pool of Linux and MacOS. I can use Windows if I have to.
For as long as I have written software, I have also tried to break it. My time working with financial software, e-commerce/ticket websites and betting web games has brought IT security to the forefront of my development.
I have learnt a valuable perspective for developing software with an emphasis on security and data protection. I also hold a certificate in web security from MWR Info Security.
Where I have worked and what I did. Click for more information!
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Here is a copy of my CV.
As a full stack developer, I joined Invision360 as the first permanent developer. I chose to join Invision360 for the social mission and how I could use my skill set to really make a difference to people’s lives. I initially worked with a team of consultants and helped architect and build the centrepiece product from the ground up. This multi-tenant product found almost all of its complexities in user management and authentication as well as reporting and data heavy dashboards. As we grew the permanent team, I found myself in a critical position where I helped onboard engineers and mentored junior members of the team too. It has been really rewarding to see how my contributions have helped shape the team and software too. Recently I have now moved onto our latest project, finding myself as a sole engineer architecting and building our latest AI-powered product, and excitedly helping grow the team yet again!
We have employed an interesting range of technologies where the needs of our products have changed over time. Some frontend libraries include React, Vue and NextJS with and without various UI libraries. Our backend applications are solely NodeJS utilising either Express or Fastify and either MongoDB, DynamoDB or Postgres. We have utilised microservices and currently monolithic architectures. More recently I have been learning and utilising AWS Amplify Gen2.
Check out Invision360's website for more information!
As a full stack web developer, I was involved in developing the Verafide platform MVP, as well as developing payment features in a later release and have now been tasked with maintaining the platform in general.
I was also tasked with developing our public SDK, for use by both organisations and clients. This taught me a lot about how open source code should be written and relied on my security knowledge when designing APIs. I also continue to work on SETL projects as Verafide is a subsidiary of SETL.
The technologies I work with are; React with Typescript and UI libraries on the UI, NodeJS with NestJS and Typescript on the server side, as well as MongoDB, Redis and Postgres.
Check out Verafide's website for more information!
As a full stack web developer I was involved in designing, building and maintaining SETL's back-office projects. The projects are built directly atop SETL’s Blockchain technology, leading to some complex systems stacks, APIs and a demand for excellent cross-team communication.
At SETL I took my security knowledge to the next level, with help from the company and some self learning. I also had some experience in delegating and managing work with other developers, having been placed as a sub team lead for a project for one and a half years.
Some of the technologies I used are; Angular and React with Typescript and UI libraries, PHP and NodeJS with NestJS while using websocket and restful APIs, and MongoDB, Redis, MySQL or PostgreSQL where necessary.
Check out SETL's website for more information!
As a junior web developer, I was initially tasked with supporting other developers and maintaining our web games, promotions and marketing sites. I quickly gained trust in my work and was tasked with independent work and direct communication with our clients.
We used a range of technologies; ranging from Perl CGI sites backed by OracleDB to more modern PHP sites using WordPress or Laravel as well as AngularJS or BackboneJS web games all backed by MySQL and Redis.
Projects I worked on included small to large e-commerce sites and popular fantasy sports games too. Clients ranged from smaller local businesses to larger ones such as Sky Sports and The Sun.
Check out GFM's website for more information about what they do, and some of the projects I worked on whilst there.
This website serves as a social platform, and is non-commercial. It is essentially my digital CV! I built it in HTML, CSS and JS with a simple and mobile responsive design in mind.
My avatar is a Bitmoji and is permitted for use on social media! I am just terrible getting good portraits of myself.
Some icons used are Google Icons found in their material design system.
