Tech lead role developing an employee engagement SaaS from 0 to over £1 million in revenue within a year and a half. Ensuring a continuous delivery of features, performance and UX improvements. Provided mentoring and technical support to the team to ensure a high standard of code.
Delivered the project through MVP to production. Architected various features including ensuring anonymity of survey respondents, question selection, at most one e-mail and the ability for respondents and admins to have anonymous conversations. With a focus on high availability and scalability.
Engineer on a £50million self service jobs portal. Delivered a social media integration microservice which allows schools to manage & schedule social posts for their job adverts. Delivered a service that ascertains the users permissions based on numerous business rules, replacing the existing legacy service reducing the error rate & API request times. Maintaining and fixing issues with various microservices while continually improving both the user experience through performance improvements and the developer experience through code improvements and developer tooling.
Core feature development and writing automated tests for KeyLines a connected data visualisation API. Improving the existing SDK site & product demos to give customers more knowledge of what they can achieve & a better user experience. Building and maintaining React, Angular 2, Vue & ArangoDB integrations. Created an automated Typescript definition file for the API. New product development using React & Redux. Dealing with customer support requests & professional services to help customers utilise the product. Various team lead responsibilities including mentoring interns and new starters, being the ‘go to’ developer, running team meetings when needed & helping to implement new team processes.
Designing and customising the front end of a SAAS platform for sales pitches & customers which include medium to large multinational companies. Custom data integrations, product configuration and internal tooling using ExtJs, Oracle SQL & C#.
BA Human Geography 2.1. | 2008-2011 | Newcastle University