Chris Laslett

We use technology to help property businesses close more deals and find their ideal investors.

Development Team Manager for large, multi-site/remote development team in online dating technology company. As a key part of the development department, I worked closely with the CTO and other senior staff to ensure my team worked effectively to deliver projects.

Concrete provide an enterprise SaaS platform for global retailers such as GAP, M&S and Superdry helping their head office teams collaborate, manage and plan in-store operations. Highlights: Line managed developers (back/front end and QA) with regular one to ones, performance reviews and OKR style goals Led the redevelopment of multiple legacy applications into SPAs using Backbone-Marionette Developed & consumed REST APIs Helped development team transition from MVC front-end architecture to MVVM using Backbone, Rivets and TypeScript making unit testing easier Helped introduce and evolve agile methodologies. Acted as Scrum Master and coached others into the role Coached team members in learning Git, JavaScript, Backbone, Marionette and TDD via code club sessions and pair programming Worked closely with Product Owners and Architects to analyse client requirements. Writing user stories and introducing BDD style acceptance criteria to improve clarity across the business Helped establish a near-shore development team, delivering software at a fifth of the cost Helped introduce coding standards, code reviews and unit testing Introduced end-to-end and performance testing into the development workflow Implemented build processes to enable automated testing, code and database release deployment Client facing to document requirements and provide training Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Redux, Backbone, Marionette, Node (HAPI, Express), Gulp, Grunt, CSS preprocessors (LESS, Sass), Require.js, CommonJS, Mocha, Chai, Sinon, HTML, REST, ColdFusion (CFML), SQL Server, MySQL, MongoDB, Git, SVN