Hired and lead a department of 16 developers and designers. Implemented many engineering best practises.

Managed the AWS environment and the full CI/CD pipeline.

Contributed to the various codebases, acted as advisor to team tech leads, set out overall architectural strategy, performed daily code reviews.

Chief Technology Officer

I acted as the technical lead for many of our multi award winning client projects and delivered countless high quality projects of varying technical complexity.

Championed adoption of new processes and tools such as TDD, Code Reviews, Pull Requests, Git & CI/CD.

Head of Development

Senior developer delivering client projects both as individual contributor as well as part of a larger agency team. Worked with the Technical Director to transition from mainly C# .NET work to Ruby on Rails projects

Senior Developer

I've worked with Elixir in production for more than 3 years now, I have blogged extensively about Elixir, have made some open source contributions to both Elixir and Phoenix frameworks themselves and currently using it for a side project.

I'm very comfortable with Ruby language and use a healthy mix of both object oriented and functional programming styles depending on the problem at hand.

My first priority with any code is to ensure that it's not only functionally correct but also easy to understand and change in the future.

I have shipped countless successful Ruby on Rails projects throughout my career and contributed to some open source projects.

I have experience in both building out new robust features, extracting services from a legacy codebase as well as optimising existing code for performance.

I prefer a clean self documenting coding style and enjoy refactoring out abstractions that make the solutions more elegant.

I'm an AWS Certified Cloud Practicioner and have multiple years of experience in designing, building, managing and optimising a small to mid size environment with dozens of applications deployed

I like clean modular JavaScript code, perfectly happy with ES6 and have experience with frameworks like VueJS and React complete with state management, navigation etc

I have a good understanding of the basics and some of the intermediate level skills, I use git efficiently to make my working life easier and have recently trained our developers to use git so they can use it to help their work rather than seeing it as a hinderance.

I have very good knowledge of the jQuery api and have implemented countless projects with the help of jQuery in the past. I have written basic plugins and am aware of the patterns used in the jQuery code base.

I have a good working knowledge of HTML and CSS and have implemented several projects for both desktop browsers as well as for mobile devices.

I've been designing schemas, writing and optimising indexes & queries for a long time. I also have experience in normalising data and backing up and restoring databases, both on server and on AWS RDS including AWS Aurora. I also have some experience in setting up replication and read only databases with automatic promotion on fail.

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