- Led the hands-on development of front and backend code across multiple projects simultaneously using various programming languages and frameworks including JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js and React.- Provided technical leadership and direction to a cross functional team of engineers, QA and BA.- Owned CI/CD pipelines. Implemented automated testing and deployment procedures, resulting in significant time and cost savings while maintaining a high standard of code quality and deployment efficiency.- Advocated for high levels of code standards and best practices by starting a community driven JavaScript style guide.- Mentored engineers ensuring their continued personal and technical development.- Proactively identified and actioned opportunities and trends leading to performance gains, UI improvements and bug catching.- Worked with solutions architects and principal QA to ensure solutions were secure and maintainable.

- Addressed production bugs and improvements in existing services.- Worked in 2 week sprint cycles using Jira board to prioritise requirements and communicate progress.- Contributed to CI/CD pipelines by integrating services such as SonarQube quality gate.- Wrote code across multiple projects simultaneously to develop features which often spanned both front and backend.- Conducted code reviews.- Wrote robust and comprehensive test coverage.- Followed TDD principles resulting in a high degree of test coverage, and code reliability.

- Stay updated on RI's current frameworks, particularly React, and proactively implement enhancements for new features and improved performance.- Ensured seamless cross-browser compatibility, optimising web applications for various devices and browsers to guarantee consistent performance and usability.- Proactively monitor core web vitals, including cumulative layout shift, and take necessary actions to improve scores and prevent any performance degradation.

Working for a number of clients on projects including:- Custom animation playerConnecting a custom animation produced by an animator to a .mp3 sound file in a custom player. The challenge here revolved around replicating a video player. Features included; draggable timeline, synced audio/video, custom styled play/pause, timeline. - static websitesCreated static websites using html, css and Javascript. Websites had AJAX submitable contact forms which used a php backend to forward the message to email inboxes.- ecommerce wordpress storeClothing retail store using woocommerce on wordpress. The project required me to style and setup the site, as well as configure it to allow payments. I was also required to improve the sites SEO score, which I used Googles KPIs to target improvements and provide proof of increased score.