Sam Hasler Email & Phone Number

Frontend React development.

Cirencester

• Worked in a cross functional team, developing and maintaining the front end for Kallidus' employee performance management product which was written in TypeScript and Knockout. Added React components within the Knockout.
• Developed a PowerShell script to automate translating JSON localisation files using the Microsoft Azure machine translation API, reducing a half hour+ task into running a script that executed in seconds.
• Wrote a fake server for testing in Node.js using Express. It responded to requests by either serving fixture JSON files or generated fake responses on the fly, cycling through empty, error, or good responses, chaos.
• Created an SPA for branding the product with customer colours and logos. Contributing a colour picker component to the internal component library and adding to Storybook documentation.

Remote

Onboarding new clients using the RevLifter platform to create voucher code sites and client basket popup deals.Mostly creating CSS to match designs provided in Sketch format (via zeplin.com, invisionapp.com and also using the Lunacy windows client) but also had to edit Vue and Twig templates and also used Less to parameterise some of the CSS creation.

Poulton

• brought in to improve the UI/UX of a call centre web app for car insurance quotes. It included:
• Adding support for HTML5 attributes to the back end by writing a RichFaces custom tag renderer to pass attributes normally ignored by RichFaces' components into the HTML output.
• Re-writing the CSS into SASS to reduce duplication and changing from CSS class names based on presentation to semantic class names based on the nature of the content, making it easier to re-skin the site for new.
• Created a responsive layout for forms that works on desktop, tablet and mobile and adding polyfills (using js-webshim) for HTML5 inputs so we can write to the HTML5 spec for all devices.Adding features and debugging.
• Fixing browser layout and compatibility issues on IE using modern.ie VMs, Android devices using the Android Emulator and Chrome’s remote debugging protocol. Using Apache Weinre to remote debug on mobile browsers that.
• Writing Selenium tests and fixing them to be more resilient to changes on the front-end, e.g. by using “qa-” prefixed class names that would not be reused for anything else and thus likely to change.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Developing a Java based C​M​S and template travel website using the Wicket Java framework in the Eclipse IDE. Multicom used an agile development process (quoting on upcoming work, monthly sprints, daily stand up meetings). My role also required writing specifications and developing new features and fixing bugs in response to customer bug reports and.

Stroud, England, United Kingdom

I joined the Probe Ops division of L.B. Bentley to develop an Edge​C​AM plugin that they had created for their own use and were improving it to make it saleable to a wider audience. My main role was writing C/C + + code to add functionality and fix bugs although I was involved the entire development lifecycle: Created and maintained the Probe Ops website.

Swindon

Providing technical support for clients using Stibo’s L​otus N​otes based solution. Responding to phone and email queries and bug reports and keeping track of issues in the ticketing system. Writing and maintaining scripts to transform data into printable pages using a proprietary language (Info​mix) for the CCI coded typesetting system.Modifying, Creating.