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United Kingdom

Developing and maintaining a platform for a top publisher serving millions of pages per hour.• Leading and line-managing a team of engineers, mentoring and growing them towards more senior roles• Use of a wide array of telemetry and tooling (such as Sentry, Prometheus, Jaeger, Kibana, KEDA, Incident.io and more) to ensure uptime SLAs are met and any issues get resolved promptly• Driving the team towards a component-based application structure to help the larger team move quicker without conflicting as much• Building and using complex CI/CD processes to orchestrate deploys across multiple services• Extensive work with the audience-development team to improve SEO, readership and retention• Leading internationalisation across multiple high-profile brands and applications to bring them to market in various new regions• Refacting major flagship legacy application over multiple years to increase performance multiple times and improve development experience and environment for large development teams, enabling them to do more faster• Maintaining and updating frontend code using Sass/PostCSS and React/VueJS for different projects, steering towards TailwindCSS and Alpine.js• Bespoke distributed stack involving PHP, Golang and TypeScript. Use of various database technologies such as MySQL, MongoDB, Solr, ArangoDB and Riak. Served from Kubernetes, with Varnish and Fastly as a caching layer

Bath, England, United Kingdom

Bath, United Kingdom

Plymouth, United Kingdom

Building a SaaS ticketing platform.• Working with Yii 2 framework, VueJS, and introducing Docker for local and staging environments, using CD to deploy production applications to AWS• Developing deep in-app integration to support multicurrency payments through Stripe Connect in a whitelabelled, user-friendly manner• Overhauling and refactoring both legacy backend and frontend to allow quicker feature development, improve runtime performance and to help onboard new developers• Internationalisation and localisation of flagship application to work in more markets, leading to wider sales reach• Bringing multi-tenant functionality to flagship app to give more control to customers• Working on React Native mobile app for ticket management and QR scanning

Bodmin, Cornwall, United Kingdom

Creating web-based clinical software for the NHS.• Team lead for a flagship care planning product, co-ordinating SOAP API development with Java and first-party-integrations of it in PHP (Laravel) with a team of 5• Developing unique healthcare application used in hospitals across the country to assist medical professionals giving quick diagnoses and determining possible drug trial candidates• Enhancing, maintaining, and rewriting a multitude of legacy web-based applications• Developing REST APIs and front-end modules for brand new modern clinical application with big focus on real-time user interactivity, web-sockets and heavy traffic• Programming and maintaining miscellaneous projects and utilities in a variety of languages, primarily PHP but including Java, Python, C# and C++• Talking directly with customers to offer technical support on in-depth products and conducting frequent user research at user groups• Automating end-to-end tests for multiple web and desktop applications with Selenium, Qt and other frameworks