Transitioned company from £350k+/year outsourced tech to a small in-house, agile, full-stack Javascript team, saving £200k+/year while improving speed, productivity and transparency. Included scraping and reverseengineering, implementing CI/CD with GitHub and Heroku, redeveloping the front-end as an SPA with Vue.js and back-end with Node.js and MongoDB. 

Senior full-stack developer

Created a Node.js/MongoDB accounts system and worked on the core product - a Javascript graph visualisation library 

Javascript developer

Initial idea to profitable market leader with ~10 person team, then equity sale. From a server-heavy LAMP stack, most recently created an HTML5  designer, using 10k+ lines of custom Javascript on both client and server (Node.js). Usability and strong UX has always been key. 

Founder, CEO and lead full-stack developer

Masses of Javascript experience, both on the front-end, back-end and isomorphic/universal Javascript which runs on both. Highlights:

- A drag-and-drop page/book designer using HTML5 canvas, used to create over 100,000 printed books.
- Isomorphic Vue single page apps (SPAs).
- Node.js scripts to scrape and transition from one stack to another.
- Have given several talks at my local Javascript Meetup group.

In depth knowledge of Vue and the ecosystem around it (vue-router, vue-loader, vue-cli, vuepress, nuxt, etc...). Attended Vue.js London 2018 conference.

You can find several canvas projects on my GitHub profile. At AllYearbooks I created a 10,000+ line custom page/book builder using canvas on the client and node-canvas on the server to output to PDFs.

I write my CSS as SCSS where possible. Have been using HTML and CSS for around 20 years now.

I've been using MongoDB at my last two jobs, and think it's great when getting started on new projects. PostgreSQL probably makes more sense for most use cases in the long-run though.

I was originally a LAMP stack developer. I haven't used PHP much since ~2014 but could help convert existing PHP projects to Node.js.

Originally a LAMP stack developer, I haven't used MySQL properly since ~2014, but before then used it to expert level for ~10 years. Happy to work with it on existing projects, though I think PostgreSQL makes more sense today.

jQuery once served a purpose but with modern Javascript and better browsers, there's little reason to use jQuery on a new project. Very happy to help on existing projects that use jQuery - I've used it extensively for several years.

I used to provision and manage Linux servers for over 10 years, but with AWS, Heroku etc now, there's little need for the vast majority of projects.

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Jake G.

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