Iain Beeston Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

Edinburgh, Midlothian, Gb

London, 125 Charing Cross Road, London, Gb

Full stack developer for a London-based, employee owned software consultancy

New York, Ny, Us

Ruby and JavaScript developer at a premier Ruby on Rails development agencies, working directly with clients to build amazing web apps.

Sydney, Au

Full-stack Ruby on Rails and JavaScript developer for a small, agile web development agency. Left We Are Brand New to emigrate to the UK.

Software engineer for a successful early-stage startup, making a photo-sharing web app for families• Completely rebuilt the website as a dynamic single-page javascript app using Backbone.js and Ajax coupled to a Ruby on Rails server providing a JSON API• Undertook two major refactorings of the app database with only minimal impact on users (once to improve normalisation and once to restructure the hierarchy of tables)• Migrated automated emails from being sent directly from the app via SMTP, to event-driven email using Vero• Tapestry was a demanding startup environment with very high standards of product quality and developer efficiency

Edinburgh, Midlothian, Gb

Ruby on Rails developer at FreeAgent, a successful startup providing one of the most popular online accounting services in Europe and the USA.• Started to implement a radical design overhaul of the site with more interactive widgets and ajax• Wrote an event tracking layer that integrated the app with Totango• Took responsibility for configuring and stabilising the internal continuous integration build (using Jenkins)• Worked on rotating dev support duty, helping customers to resolve technical issues with the app via ZendeskLeft FreeAgent to emigrate to Australia.

Edison, Nj, Us

Software developer and statistician for a small biotech startup, developing new diagnostic tests for colorectal cancer.• Designed a green-field Ruby on Rails web app for internal tracking of inventory and provenance of clinical samples, including novel features such as barcode tracking, networked printing and import to MySQL from excel spreadsheets• Analysed massive biological data sets from gene and exon microarray experiments (each using many gigabytes of raw data) with Bioconductor, R and Ruby• Named on two research papers on the effectiveness of genetic markers for detecting colorectal cancer.Left Clinical Genomics to emigrate to the UK.

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Java developer in Macquarie Securites Group, the derivatives and trading division of Australia's largest investment bank.• Upgraded an internal project for managing the manual confirmation of transactions to use a third party automated confirmations API• Took on sole responsible for maintaining a customer facing web-app (written in JavaServer Faces 2 backed by JavaBeans) and providing technical advice on it's sale to an external company• Provided 24 hour pager support for the team's applications, on a rotating roster• Helped to promote the use of best-practice technologies in the teams' core applications, eg. Java Persistence API instead of Hibernate 2 or JDBC, Subversion instead of CVS, Java Generics rather than static type castingLeft Macquarie Group because my position was made redundant.

Msc, Bioinformatics And Systems Biology

Meng, Computing