When the opportunity came up to make a greater contribution at Nightingale Housing, I couldn’t say no. This is a key time for the organisation, and they need someone to come in for a brief stint and supercharge their IT.
Developed a digital balloting solution using Angular / Node / AWS serverless stack.
Go-to-guy for all the big IT questions like “how does mail merge work?”

Senior Full Stack Developer

Leadership position within a team developing client and payment portals:
· Loosely coupled, serverless architecture: AWS Lambdas, API Gateway, CloudFormation, etc.
· SPA frontend using Angular
· Engaging with stakeholders to elicit requirements and constraints.
· Mentoring / coaching teammates in Typescript and Angular
· Unit, E2E tests: Angular CLI, Karma, Jasmine, Wallaby, Protractor

Working with a team of designers to build a mobile application using Ionic 3 and Angular 5, with dynamic and interactive graphs using D3.JS. 
· Worked closely with designers to realise their vision for a highly dynamic app. 
· Unit tests using Angular CLI, Karma, Jasmine and Wallaby
· E2E tests running in emulator using Protractor and Appium.
· Automated deployment to iOS and Android app stores with Fastlane.

Senior Front-end Developer (contract)

Main focus was a technical lead, but role also incorporated sales, budgeting, business planning, and managing a team of three.
· Developed complex full-stack app using Typescript, Angular, and node.js. 
· Engaged with customers to understand their needs.
· Managed a 6-figure annual budget
· Achieved sales of ~$700,000 over 3.5 years
· Business closed in the black, with decent payouts for all staff.

Senior Full Stack Developer & Founder 

I've worked exclusively with full-stack Javascript / TypesScript for the past seven years, and TypeScript for the past 3 years. Recently, I've primarily worked with NodeJS on AWS serverless infrastructure (using Lambda) and the latest version of Angular on the frontend.

I aim to write clean, easily readable and maintainable code, with a pragmatic level of code-coverage. I am able to get up and running quickly, and maintain a high level of productivity, due to my long experience of effective JavaScript patterns.

I'm familiar with the latest JavaScript features and with key tools like the Angular CLI, nx, protractor, jest, karma, and webpack.

I've used Node.js extensively, initially with container-based express apps and more recently using a serverless-first approach, using a range of AWS services including Lambdas, API Gateway, Step Functions, S3, SNS and others.

I've used AWS for the past five years, initially EC2 and containers together with S3, SNS, SQS etc, and recently with an increasing focus on serverless-first architecture, using Lambda, Step Functions, API Gateway etc.

I exclusively provision AWS resources using CloudFormation / AWS SAM (infrastructure as code), and have written an nx plugin that wraps the AWS CLI and webpack to make deploying serverless applications significantly easier.

As I've primarily worked in small teams, I've had to take on dev-ops as well as development. I've embraced infrastructure as code, and am very familiar with AWS CloudFormation.

I'm familiar with key tools like Webpack, and have set up CI/CD on all my projects, primarily using CircleCI.

Angular, Node, and Typescript  on serverless infrastructure

Daniel Studds

Nightingale Housing sells triple-bottom line housing at-cost, which means there's a lot of demand. To make it fair, they have a ballot. This was a paper-based process which took about 2 weeks to run. I build a digital ballot for them (web app and backend process) which cut this down to 2 hours.

Nightingale Housing Digital Ballot

Worked closely with designers to realise their vision for a highly dynamic and highly polished mobile app. It lets VicSuper members view and update their details, view their accounts and contributions, and shows an interactive graph of their balance over time using D3.js.

VicSuper Mobile App

Findex is a large, independent accounting and financial advice firm in Australia and New Zealand. The Findex Client Portal allows Findex clients to digital sign their Customer Service Agreement and view the status of their jobs, as well as to make payments.

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