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Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

- I looked after the entire stack including Edge / CDN, WAF, GCS, GitHub Actions, Travis, Design systems.- Shipped multiple products including Fastly Docs, Developer Hub, Rebrand of Fastly.com. Technology includes TypeScript, React / Gatsby, GraphQL, Vanilla Extract, NX monorepo.- Web performance - Taught by pairing, team meetings and speaking at internal summits. Added RUM, used my knowledge to improve Core Web Vitals, created dashboards and alerting to observe progress.- Improved resiliency by debugging error paths, adding better error handling and logging via Sentry, improved automated testing on critical flows, created dashboards and alerting. Helped discover bugs relaunching the new www.fastly.com site.- Created a runbook and documentation of internal tools to aid in troubleshooting.- Delivered Rust edge compute service using Compute@Edge with Marketo APIs, Recaptcha.- Frequently paired and provided knowledge sharing across many time zones.

- Improved build times in Travis and GitHub actions- Edge programming / VCL / HTTP- Implemented language routing, simplified our VCL- Fixed shielding - Fastly runs VCL twice for improved cache hit ratio- Introduced automated testing with Cypress- Continued collaboration with multiple teams on our shared component library- TypeScript migration on components- Creating and setting up smaller projects such as https://www.fastly.com/deptofknow/

- Migrate existing Jekyll site to Gatsby / React and updated front end stack- Built the Fastly Developer Hub with the Developer Relations team using React / Gatsby- Started Design systems project to improve consistency of web products- Code review, weekly pairing, knowledge sharing

Copenhagen Area, Capital Region, Denmark

- Quick turnaround on existing large multi-language sites using Sass and Backbone.- Worked on their first React app with drag and drop. Shared React knowledge and responsible for code review.

- Launched a new page template for all Stuff articles using React, Redux, GraphQL. Testing using Cypress.- Improved performance of article page First Contentful Paint and Speed Index by 30%.- Gave internal talks and spoke at Wellington CSS Meetup on web performance.

- Delivered video ingest microservice using BrightCove APIs to create videos to use in our CMS. Loggly integration for logging.- Improved video player experience, and added playlists.

“School Report” interactive tool for visualising National Standards and NCEA school results. First React app at Stuff and helped modernise Stuff tooling. Also used Redux, d3.js, testing with Mocha.

London, United Kingdom

- Worked on Origami component library and design system- Updated components from ES5 to ES6- Helped support workshops and troubleshooting via Slack- Helped with extra-curricular activities at London Web Performance - setting up, scanning tickets- Working-holiday visa expired, so couldn’t continue in a permanent role.

London, United Kingdom

At MMT Digital I have worked on a heavy HTML 5 canvas and JavaScript application using Require.js modules. I also worked on a global website to roll out new regions and extended the existing styling and templates.

As a small studio of 1-3 developers I generally did a bit of everything including front end development, server side development, setting up our local development server and client training of content management systems.

Wellington

At Web Media Factory I created and integrated Wordpress themes for many small clients, coded and integrated e-newsletters with subscription services such as Mailchimp and Aweber. I also created internal code templates and improved HTML and CSS coding standards.

Created a website and content management system for a local theatre to manage shows and news.

Diploma In Web Development

Diploma In Multimedia