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Seattle, WA, US

Tahoe City, California, US

- Developed two TypeScript courses for instructor-led delivery, designed to teach development teams how to effectively build production-ready web applications with TypeScript.- Technologies: TypeScript, Instructional design.

St Albans, GB

- Developed key product features: Slack app for project notifications, Kanban board with real-time updates, Metrics dashboard to provide companies with an overview of business health.- Interviewed customers to help align product roadmap for project management SaaS with needs of its customers (architecture practices).- Technologies: Node.js, React.

San Francisco, US

- Drove adoption of open-source Node.js tools for building APIs by creating comprehensive demo apps, in-depth technical tutorials, how-to videos, documentation, and technical talks.- Conducted customer interviews and supported the developer community via Discord/GitHub.- Technologies: Node.js, Fastify, SQLite, PostgreSQL, Next.js, Auth0, Vercel, REST.

London, England, GB

- Consolidated design system components, documentation and examples into a unified toolkit for internal design and development teams to apply across multiple applications and services.- Technologies: Node.js, Eleventy, SASS, Webpack.

Palermo, Palermo, IT

Developed an extensive syllabus for Node.js and TypeScript modules, to be taken as part of a 6 month full stack web development course. Produced 120 video lessons with accompanying exercises to help reinforce student learning (Node.js, TypeScript, Instructional design).

London, London, GB

Worked with the CRM and Data Engineering teams to design and implement integration with a SaaS CRM platform. Put systems and processes in place to enable migration of all CRM and transactional communications away from Salesforce, reducing service costs and improving customer experience (Node.js, TypeScript, JSON Schema, AWS SNS and Lambda).

London, England, GB

Developed integrations enabling veterinary practices to deliver timely reminders and notifications to their clients. Implemented a robust ETL pipeline for data retrieval, parsing, transformation and storage (Node.js, TypeScript, Zod, AWS Step Functions, Lambda and DynamoDB).

London, England, GB

Worked with the Content Innovation team to redesign and rebuild the FT’s legacy real time live blogs platform. Successfully replaced all legacy systems and delivered a hugely improved user experience for live blogs on FT.com and the FT Apps (Node.js, Server-sent events, React pure components, AWS Lambda, Elasticsearch).

London, England, GB

Worked with the Customer Products Globetrotter team to launch a brand new section on FT.com and the FT apps. Worked closely with Editorial stakeholders. Designed and implemented scalable architecture which supported rapid prototyping (Node.js, internal headless CMS, Eleventy, JSON Schema).

London, England, GB

Worked with Enabling Technologies Group to improve workflows from development to production for feature development teams. Built command-line tooling to automate maintenance of over a hundred microservice Git repositories (Node.js, GitHub Apps, CircleCI, Heroku).

London, England, GB

Worked with the Editorial Technology Video team to improve internal applications for staff publishing video to FT.com and FT apps. Built a system to enable simple publishing of any video to FT YouTube channels (Node.js, React, RabbitMQ).

Developed full stack features for real-time visitor management system dashboard (Angular, Node.js REST API, WebSockets).

Kingston, Surrey, South West, GB

Led a renewed focus on quality and sustainable approaches to web development. Oversaw development of front-end framework and pattern library, enabling effective delivery of consistent and maintainable user experience across multiple websites. Co-ordinated and technically managed numerous cross-platform projects.

London, GB

Managed technical operations of 2010 website. Provided technical advice, guidance and support for development of crowdfunded, agency developed website built for 2015 UK General Election. Lead volunteers in open source development of supporting Data website and API.

London, England, GB

Technical and line management of development team. Defined development strategy, tools and processes with them. Worked closely with Product Owner and Group stakeholders to shape business requirements into sustainable and deliverable roadmap. Responsible for all team hiring.

London, England, GB

Lead development team in launching localised sites in France and Germany, new physical products and an optimised end-to-end mobile user journey. Line managed several members of the team, helping them grow their skills and achieve personal development goals.

London, England, GB

Selected to help develop website for new brand. Instrumental in designing and implementing scalable service-oriented architecture. Introduced CI and end-to-end testing practices (Node.js, MongoDB, AWS, Jenkins).

London, England, GB

Worked in cross-functional team, delivering business critical features across multiple locales to PhotoBox's global base of 3.4 million active customers.

Developed websites and applications for SMEs and multi-nationals such as Intel, Dove and the NHS. Managed team of freelance developers and designers. Co-created Vote for Policies survey for the 2010 General Election to help UK voters decide who to vote for. Built back end and handled scaling of infrastructure to handle heavy traffic when the site went viral.