Andy White Email & Phone Number

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

As a member of the senior management team, I guide product and company strategy with a particular focus on user experience engineering, recruitment and staff engagement. Alongside this, I continue to be hands-on with development of our brand new financial services platform, recruitment of technical and non-technical staff and forward-thinking programmes like our engineering academy.• Recruit technical and non-technical staff across disciplines such as web, mobile and backend development, infrastructure and SRE, test management, UX design, and program management• Created the Touch by AJ Bell engineering academy, which takes in two candidates every year for a 12-month placement consisting of four technical rotations• Line manage multiple engineering and engineering-related staff, manage reviews and feedback, facilitate mentoring and training, develop individuals hands-on and via objective setting• Manage and coordinate technical strategy, facilitate technical discussion and knowledge sharing, support resourcing with our program manager and feature owners• Actively foster a high bar for engineering and UX excellence across disciplines• Coordinate technical and recruitment strategy with the wider AJ Bell business

Bristol, United Kingdom

Full-stack development with purview over the user experience concerns of multiple web and native apps. Part of the early team building a brand new financial services platform with modern technical design and user experience at the forefront.After taking on multiple responsibilities outside of the normal roles held by an engineer or lead, I joined the senior management team with a focus on user experience, recruitment and staff engagement.• Architecting multiple high quality, scalable web apps using TypeScript, Vue, gRPC• Implementing unit and e2e test coverage with Jest and Playwright• Ensuring accessibility in user-facing applications• Contributing to a microservices-based Go and PostreSQL backend• Implementing CI and CD tasks in cloud pipelines• Recruiting additional web and mobile engineers to build the UX team• Mentoring and training new and existing staff

Bristol, United Kingdom

Full-stack development for a new energy trading platform handling the purchase and reselling of green energy to the National Grid on behalf of one of Europe’s largest energy companies.• Developing composable UI elements with React and CSS Modules• Using Redux with Reselect and Sagas for front-end state management• Enforcing static typing with Flow, along with PropTypes for React components• Maintaining and improving unit test coverage with Jest and Enzyme• Consulting on end-to-end test strategies and implementing automated testing with Cucumber, Selenium and Chromedriver• Auditing and improving accessibility in the front-end application• Adding and modifying API endpoints in a Node backend, refactoring application-wide request handlers, and handling deployment as multiple AWS lambdas in a serverless architecture• Contributing to and running aspects of sprint reviews, demos and planning sessions with the internal development team and external clients

Bristol, United Kingdom

Responsible for the successful delivery of complex web applications for some of the world’s largest organisations in technology and beyond including Google and other Alphabet companies. Some of my skills and responsibilities included:• Running interviews for new hires and performance reviews of other developers• Providing regular guidance, coaching and mentoring to others• Ensuring the success of projects on behalf of multiple important clients• Leading the technical aspects of multiple concurrent projects across teams• Coordinating clients and teams across geographical and time zone boundaries on a daily basis• Guiding teams through architectural choices and owning the technical decision-making• Using and training others in multiple modern frameworks (including Angular, React and Vue)• Leveraging Node, Gulp, Webpack and others to enable automated testing and deployment• Working with UX and visual designers to develop and hone design systems• Ensuring projects are well-tested and inherently testable• Reasoning between back-end and front-end as the best place for logic and processing

London And Bristol, Uk

Specialising in the front-end development of complex web applications, generally working on projects with Google and other Alphabet companies.• Semantic HTML, device-agnostic design and accessibility• Well-thought-out, extensible, unobtrusive and modular JavaScript• DRY principles, separation of concerns and internationalisation• Unit testing and continuous integration• CSS modularisation and preprocessing (usually with Sass)• Using and designing efficient REST APIs• Agile working practices like Scrum and Kanban

London, United Kingdom

Design and develop complex web applications and modular CMS components across multiple teams in a global, agile environment. Some of the things I did on a regular basis include:• Champion the importance of semantic HTML, device-agnostic design and accessibility• Create and maintain extensible, unobtrusive and modular JavaScript• Advocate the importance of DRY principles and the separation of concerns• Ensure quality through the use of unit testing and continuous integration• Keep things simple and efficient using CSS modularisation and preprocessing• Consume and design efficient REST APIs

London, United Kingdom

Researched, planned, scheduled, created and edited documentation and user assistance for this global market leader of data quality software. Coordinated delivery with multiple scrum teams.Designed and created the company's user assistance portal: http://support.qas.com/uaMy work won first place in the Instructional category of the ISTC's Technical Communication Awards 2013.

Alton, United Kingdom

Developed user assistance and coordinated marketing activities for this business management software company.

Alton, United Kingdom

Acted as the liaison between customers and IT security technicians, communicating technical information to varied audiences.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.) Hons 2:1, English Literature

A-Levels: A, B, C; Additional As-Levels: A, B, C

12 Gcses, Grades A* – C, Including A And Above In Maths, Sciences And English