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Worked in the Search and Recommendations team, responsible for migrating and reimagining search for the consumer facing business. • Combined legacy map views into singular responsive layout and created competitor defining free hand drawing functionality leading to increased search refinements• Removed overengineered Redux implementation, decreasing overall bundle size and allowing for overhaul of filtering logic and components. Created decoupled filter panel with tri-state functionality and context sensitive configuration options reflective of user search• Simplified listing search experience through unified GraphQL endpoint. Transferred logic from legacy APIs to GraphQL layer allowing for better information composition and reduced JSON payload• Created skeleton loaders for listing search to indicate fetching of new results and reduced cumulative layout shift when paginating• Navigated National Trading Standards requirements regarding property details. Elevated client side logic to GraphQL and modified data to reflect incoming changes, shareable across web and app teams• Attended bi-weekly search operations review sessions as front end representative, responsible for monitoring and reporting issues within various dashboards. Created tickets and investigated root causes against potential code releases

Worked in the core platform team tasked with transitioning to a multi-tenant application, Verso.• Initiated upgrade from legacy SASS to Styled Components. Introduced and championed practices such as naming conventions and modular component design, providing guidance and documentation to help establish this• Identified areas that would benefit from optimisation by updating various configurations and structures to allow for more effective tree shaking to reduce bundle size• Enhanced implementation of Storybook, updating to the latest version, deprecating out-of-date features and refining our existing toolset to ensure teams were better placed to build and modify components faster• Introduced a new style of component story writing in line with best practices, with a focus on flexibility and configurability. Leveraged existing tooling to permit designers a greater degree of testing and reduce feedback loops• Introduced new recipe functionality to Verso, allowing Condé Nast’s food brands to be migrated to the platform. Also advised on data migration, component creation and regularly sought feedback from editorial colleagues regarding the implementation

Worked across several teams to help roll out the Compass initiative, a global consolidation of technologies to provide a unified editorial offering. • Implemented language functionality to differentiate Mexican and European Spanish as well as enabling Taiwanese brands to load traditional over simplified Chinese characters• Improved SEO through the introduction of content specific schema objects• Created and documented systems to allow non technical employees to modify non CMS accessible content• Improved gallery functionality through increased configurability to allow for greater market preference• Contributed to redirect tool, adding multiple file structures and formats as well as increasing test coverage to improve reliability and user experience

London, United Kingdom

Worked as part of the frontend team, tasked with migrating existing Condé Nast brands onto a unified platform to provide a standardised editorial experience.• Developed configurable web app providing unified routing and rendering logic with unique brand information and interface• Created themable atomic design component library to accommodate brand styling with additional interactive component explorer • Integrated 3rd party ad technologies and configured settings for GDPR compliance• Introduced Apple News infrastructure to drive increased engagement and ad inventory

London, United Kingdom

Worked within the creative studio, a multidisciplinary team of designers, developers and testers, focussed on delivering interactive experiences using web technologies. • Developed custom creatives with mobile first functionality such as gyroscopic interactivity to provide unique engagement• Collaborated on drag and drop creative prototyping tool to enable improved designer/developer workflow• Refactored task runner pipeline to provide automatic file minification and image optimisation to improve first meaningful paint times

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Leeds, United Kingdom

Tonbridge, United Kingdom