Résumé

I am a contract full-stack web developer specialising in modern front-end technologies, React, Microsoft’s .Net stack, and performance optimisation.

Skills

• Typescript, Javascript, React, CSS/SCSS, StorybookJS
• Unit testing, integration and load testing.
• Working remotely as part of large SCRUM teams

Experience

Exizent - Contract Software Engineer

April 2023 - Present

ACCA - Lead Frontend Developer

July 2021 - March 2023

• Development of new React apps in a large micro-frontend architecture
• Solution design of B2C and B2B focussed applications
• Improve Developer Experience with guidelines, automation and tooling
• Typescript, SCSS, React Query, Yarn Workspaces, Storybook, TeamCity
• SCRUM, Continous Delivery

CreditSights - Senior Software Engineer

April 2020 - July 2021

• Building complex React features with MobX, SCSS and Storybook
• Microservice API development with C#, Python, MS SQL and PostgreSQL
• Cypress testing
• SCRUM

ACCA - Contract Interface Developer

December 2018 - April 2020

• Lead development of a new customer portal with ReactJS with Redux
• Creation of a new design system using React, SCSS and StorybookJS
• TDD, SCRUM and Continuous Delivery practices.

Waracle/Clydesdale Bank - Contract React JS Developer

May 2018 - November 2018

• React development of a number of complex user interfaces
• High coverage unit testing with Jest and Enzyme
• TDD, SCRUM and Continuous Delivery practices.

Equator - Contract Developer

June 2016 - May 2018

• Development of greenfield ASP.Net applications and Angular 1.x
• Integrating and automating the testing of new APIs.
• Hosting on Microsoft Azure.

Nuclear Industry - Contract Lead Developer

April 2015 - June 2016

• Working on an internal ASP.Net/Angular accounting application as part of a large development team.
• Coded the full stack while also leading the front-end development.
• TDD, SCRUM and Continuous Delivery practices.

Equator, Glasgow/Remote - Senior Developer

September 2009 - April 2015

• Primarily building highly bespoke ASP.Net websites with Umbraco and applications for a wide variety of clients.
• Responsible for both back-end C# and front-end code as well as managing web and database servers.
• Taking the lead developer position on larger scale agile run projects.

Part-time Freelance Developer

2010 - April 2015

• Developed mobile apps for a private healthcare firm and a local museum with PhoneGap/Cordova.
• Performance consultancy involving debugging, code reviews, competitor analysis and ultimately the creation of a report of recommendation for the clients’ own development teams.

Information Retrieval Research Intern - University of Glasgow

Summer 2009

Further developed the search application I built for my dissertation.

Technical Assistant – Real Time Engineering

Summer 2008

WinForm application development for public sector clients including Transport Scotland and the NHS.

Internet Assessor – Lionbridge Technologies

2007 - 2008

Contracted to work on the Google Search Improvement Programme

Qualifications

University of Glasgow - Computing Science Bsc (Hons)

2005 - 2009 For my final year dissertation I created AcademTech, a search engine for finding experts in a given field. For this work, I was awarded a presentation booth at the SIGIR conference in Boston, USA.

Microsoft Certification: Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3

March 2013