Professional

I am a Full Stack Developer and Principal Engineer at Vizibl making a collaboration app to help large organisations get the most out of their supplier relationships.

My contributions include:

• Leading one of the development teams (squads), planning and architecting features, and mentoring junior developers.
• Leading development of the front end architecture:
  • Using web components to create a future proof component system. Each component is an encapsulated custom element which frees us from specific ties to any framework or library.
  • Introducing Typescript to the front end codebase and setting patterns for its use.
  • Developing integrations for using redux with custom elements for global app state.
• Improving and maintaining the build tooling across the stack (including cutting production build times from over an hour down to around 10 minutes).
• Maintaining and upgrading the existing CI/CD infra on Gitlab/K8s
• Upgrade the tooling around our GCP stack to make it easier to deploy the full application using terraform and helm.
• And not forgetting feature development across the full stack.

My previous work includes:

• Making a complex mapping data visualisation tool in HTML canvas for the UK government. Typescript, React/Redux, Jest/Puppeteer.
• Creating an offline capable, cross platform, mobile working application for use in ship building. Typescript, React/Redux, Redux Sagas.
• Working on the Three commercial website creating modular, reusable components that can be assembled by (non-dev) content managers. Java, JSP, Fatwire (CMS), Angular.

As well as web technologies I’m pretty handy with Docker, CI/CD tools (Gitlab and Atlassian), and am a long time linux user.

Personal

I code a lot in my spare time. Most of my projects can be found on GitHub. They vary from my own static site generator, a VS code extension to add language features for a cave surveying tool, and even hardware hacking to control my Ikea standing desk. I usually use Javascript, Typescript, or Python but can get by in Java and C#.

When not coding I enjoy caving, canyoning, climbing, cycling and hiking.

Links

Find me on:
Github