devops engineer · programmer · data architect | creator of Isoxya web crawler

Monospaced Ltd

Thomson Reuters

The design system powering thomsonreuters.com and refinitiv.com.

Design System

HubbleHQ

Migration of HubbleHQs main website from AngularJS to React, and implementation of a design system.

FE migration & DS

Web development

aceIT Consultancy Ltd

The FIS Modern Banking Platform represents a significant evolution – some would say revolution – in the highly successful FIS core banking solutions. This next generation solution offers componentized modules and the latest fintech capabilities to expand real-time digital processing enablement, and the promise of compelling banking transformation opportunities. The history of FIS core banking solutions is one of product innovation, processing power, proven reliability and performance. The future of FIS core banking solutions is all this and so much more.

Modern Banking Platform

BSkyB UK

Using managed services on Google Cloud Platform, Sky replaces its on-premises big data platform in record time to meet the increased needs of its next generation Sky Q box, now in millions of homes.

Cloud Adoption

Sainbury's Bank

The handier way to manage your credit card.  Quick, easy and secure, our handy credit card app lets you manage your credit card wherever you are, whenever you want.   Deploying into AWS and providing customers with new ways of banking with Sainsbury's.

Tesco Bank

Lead Cloud engineer across full portfolio of projects providing guidance, consultation, training and developing in an in house platform for Cloud Adoption. 

Lead Cloud Engineer

Cloud Consultancy, Architecture and Engineering

Connected Senses

Connected Senses App is a mobile tracking app for strength training. It connects to Connected Senses device over BLE to measure various measurement to track the progress of strength training.

Built using Rect Native with BLE integration and I have involved in the development of application from the scratch.

Freelance Constant

Everyday Lives

EthOS is a ethnography SAAS Platform. It includes a mobile application and a CMS to manage the project. I took over project and helped them to reduce the infrastructure cost by 50% by optimizing the resource utilization.

During the contract period (approximately 3years), I helped them to many new features and build the base architecture for the version of the platform

EthOS

VMG Digital

RedPepper is a digital publishing solution which helps the companies to make there digital publications more interactive. It is built using Angular in the frontend and Drupal in the backend.  

Clients can easily deploy by adding simple javascript snippet into there website. Application is very smart and handles all the mobile responsiveness even though the App runs inside the iFrame.

Freelance Consultant

Fullstack Developer

UnitStack Ltd

London Sperm Bank

I created an e-commerce website for the london sperm bank for the selling of donor sperm, a really nice project to work on with the end product helping couples start a family.

E-Commerce - Umbraco

London Egg Bank

I created an e-commerce website for the london egg bank for the selling of donor eggs, a really nice project to work on with the end product helping couples start a family.

E-Commerice - Umbraco

Spire Healthcare

Helped the team at spire deliver a new content hub of articles and feature rich modules. In preparation for a new TV campaign. 

Umbraco Contractor

.NET Developer inc Umbraco

Go Services

CSC(DXC)

Design, build and implement a combined online (browser) costing and pricing application

CSC(DXC) PACE

Website design (Wordpress), Software Design, Software Training

Web Design, Graphic Design, Brand Development

Chunk

Website for the UK branch of The NFL’s charitable foundation. I initially helped the agency with the technical scoping of the project, using their Figma designs to plan the technical requirements. The website is a custom-built WordPress website which makes extension use of custom Gutenberg blocks, Advanced Custom Fields and TailwindCSS.

Working in conjunction with Tyk's marketing, creative and technical teams, I developed a bespoke WordPress theme. A key requirement of the project was to create a bespoke content editing system in WordPress which would allow their internal teams to fully manage the website content without requiring a developer or coding skills. I achieved this by building reusable custom blocks which they can drop onto a page and configure as needed, all while keeping the website onbrand.

Website development

Future Cities Catapult

I worked with Future Cities Catapult on their project to develop digital information kiosks located around Newscastle, UK. These kiosks - called TechTotems - display up-to-date weather and event data for the surrounding area. I setup WordPress multisite and developed a custom WordPress theme. This allows for the central management of the theme and plugins but a separate website for each TechTotem. Each TechTotem connects to a JSON file containing the live data for that particular location and automatically displays that data in the WordPress theme.

Future Cities Catapult: Tech Totem

Ebury

WordPress website for a finance company. I collaborated with their in-house designers and developers to assist with rebuilding the company website.

Website redevelopment

Website Development, Technical Consultancy

C#, .net core, Azure Development 

Bombinate Ltd

Senior Developer

Bombinate

Bombinate is a £3m+ a year marketplace for high quality European craftsmanship brands selling to luxury consumers
- Actively liaised with stakeholders on the supplier side of the business to design and deliver technical solutions to core business problems such as:
- Implementing unique SKU (item) shipping prices & times set by suppliers from the inventory management system which saved between £2000-5000+ per day in large item shipping costs for Bombinate, improved delivery brackets for each item and scaled back customer service complaints as sales scaled up
- Improving the dashboard experience for suppliers as it was buggy and lacked essential time-saving and human error-eliminating features. The following features greatly improved supplier relations: Adding the option to download order data into a clean CSV format (previously suppliers had to manually type in details into their own systems), edit new, completed & shipped order details and auto-generate invoices for suppliers to download.
- Infrastructure:
- Audited AWS infrastructure for security, scaling and monitoring issues then
created & scoped tickets for the backlog for any issues found
- Created a roadmap to get close as possible to the AWS Well-Architected
framework by Q4 2020 (when sales should accelerate) including moving to AWS Lambda, AWS APIGateway, AWS Aurora, AWS ELB for some apps and slowly integrating GraphQL to reduce massive payload sizes to the FE. Those implementations would reduce monthly tech expenses while smoothly handling traffic spikes on demand.
- Installed Datadog for monitoring which helped troubleshoot and optimise end-to-end application performance and bust pesky NodeJS memory leaks
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- Reusable Component UI library:
- Oversee the building of UI components with Storybook, and setting best practices such as unit tests, scalable file structures, continuous deployment for easier QA syncing with design team and other recommended practices
- Guided a junior developer to work on the component library and get used to the FE codebase
- Decoupled some parts of the website such as the Navigation menu and search filters from being reliant on the tech team to being in control of the merchandising and marketing teams with Prismic content editor
- Worked with the product manager, tech team and stakeholders to properly scope tickets and clear miscommunications ahead of upcoming sprints
- Fixed numerous bugs across the frontend, backend and dashboard and promoted a tech culture that reduces the likelihood of bugs happening by encouraging unit tests with most pull requests, setting up pre-commit hooks to detect errors, Github PR templates for descriptive PRs, scalable folder structures, reasonable integration tests, common VSCode settings for code styles.

Bombinate.com

ECMWF

The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) required the development of a complex admin dashboard for their clusters of supercomputers (one of the largest facilities in the world) and hired me to fully develop the system.
As lead engineer, I was in charge of the entire software development lifecycle. This includes:
- Having an extensive discovery and planning phase with key product owners
to productively extract actionable requirements, stories and steps
- Developing the full wireframes of the supercomputer dashboards while being in close contact with the various stakeholders of ECMWF
- Liaising with ECMWF’s backend developers as well as product owners to develop a well-architected and well-documented API for the frontend dashboard and clearly documenting each API endpoint that the frontend will use with Swagger API and OpenAPI 3.0 specification.
- Developing a robust, well-tested and architected application with React and Redux using best practices for a scalable interface with a smooth user experience
- Documenting each part of the dashboard codebase for future developers
- Training future users of the dashboard on how it works, how to use it as well as add a comprehensive documentation wiki on Confluence
- Provide any post-delivery support for up to 1 month after delivery

Dashboard Development

Drover (now Cazoo)

I was brought in to fix a large buggy Rails / React codebase, help improve the engineering processes at Drover and build their mobile app prototype. Drover got acquired by Cazoo Ltd (for over £100 million in 2020).
- Improved the web app’s performance by removing dead code, setting up tree-shaking with Webpack, code-splitting where needed, lazy-loading images, using a CDN service such as imgix to also optimise images on mobile devices, prevent unnecessary re-renders with React components, fix memory leaks, encourage writing performant CSS, remove thread blocking code, cache expensive API calls, and use Chrome Lighthouse and React Profiler to reduce the overall bundle size
- Guiding the team with best engineering practices such as writing relevant tests, “not reinventing the wheel”, having better coding standards, ensuring pull requests are carefully reviewed, documenting, introducing TypeScript
- Encouraged developers to take ownership of improving the engineering culture by suggesting weekly guild meetings to discuss ideas, introducing Confluence for decision logs and incident reports, discussing concerns to senior management
- Coordinated, discussed and planned with various stakeholders and developers to build several features to meet KPIs across squads for a particular aspect of the business
- Sprint planning, breakdown of stories and epics into technical tasks for developers, designers and product owners
- Encouraged a move to microservices to be efficient with our tech expenditure and microfrontends to vastly simplify the codebase complexity for each part of the business.

Several features

Tripartie


Tripartie urgently required a mobile prototype to raise further funding, I stepped in to build upon their existing mobile app codebase, setup a CI testing environment with Expo and improve several memory leaks across the codebase.
I used React Native / Redux and Styled Components for their reusable UI library.

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Nic Williams

Scott Boyle

Colin Lyman

Freelance Constant

EthOS

Freelance Consultant

E-Commerce - Umbraco

E-Commerice - Umbraco

Umbraco Contractor

CSC(DXC) PACE

NFL

Website development

Future Cities Catapult: Tech Totem

Website redevelopment

Bombinate.com

Dashboard Development

Several features

Mobile App

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Nic Williams

Scott Boyle

Colin Lyman

Freelance Constant

EthOS

Freelance Consultant

E-Commerce - Umbraco

E-Commerice - Umbraco

Umbraco Contractor

CSC(DXC) PACE

NFL

Website development

Future Cities Catapult: Tech Totem

Website redevelopment

Bombinate.com

Dashboard Development

Several features

Mobile App

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