John Dodds

John Dodds

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5.0
(32 reviews)
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ABOUT ME
Full Stack Web/Mobile Developer for many top clients -- Samsung, HTC, BBC, NHS, Fitness First, News Corp, etc
Full Stack Web/Mobile Developer for many top clients -- Samsung, HTC, BBC, NHS, Fitness First, News Corp, etc

Hey guys,

I'm John: I've been a lead and senior full stack, front end, and back end, web and mobile app developer for 11+ years now. Specialising in React, React Native, NextJS, NestJS, and everything else that makes the web just a little more friendly and beautiful. Significant experience with AI and LLM APIs, big data, realtime chat, streaming video, geo and mapping APIs, and beyond.

I have outstanding cross sector experience delivering aesthetic, interactive, responsive, beautiful, stable, scaleable, powerful mobile and web apps for some of the world's most famous brands including Samsung, News Corp, Publicis Sapient, The Sun, Mullen Lowe, Diageo, BBC, Headspace, Fitness First, T-Mobile, Harley Davidson, the UK MoD, a 2000s era campaign for President of the United States, and numerous startups, where I've led my team to develop MVPs used successfully to raise funding rounds.

2x YunoJuno Freelancer Award nominee. 5* Rating on CodeMentor from 73+ bookings, Multiple LinkedIn recommendations from peers, managers, VC partners, and more. If you want guaranteed world class UX and top notch full stack development to see your vision come to life, then we should definitely link up.

Best,

John

English
London (+01:00)
Joined November 2014
EXPERTISE
12 years experience | 9 endorsements
Whether powering interactive front end experiences with libraries like React, Next.js, or backend rest APIs with technologies such as Nod...
Whether powering interactive front end experiences with libraries like React, Next.js, or backend rest APIs with technologies such as Node.js, Express, etc., JavaScript is the defacto standard language for most modern web builds.
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12 years experience
Have been professional software developer for 10+ years, and worked on 100s of major projects for clients ranging in size from Samsung an...
Have been professional software developer for 10+ years, and worked on 100s of major projects for clients ranging in size from Samsung and News Corp to MVPs for pre launch startups.
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5 years experience | 3 endorsements
MongoDB has proven to be invaluable in the rapid development of apps and services, especially those concerned with the delivery and consu...
MongoDB has proven to be invaluable in the rapid development of apps and services, especially those concerned with the delivery and consumption of JSON data, and easy no-hassle mass scalability. I have utilized MongoDB on a number of services.
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10 years experience | 4 endorsements
MySQL is the long term standard when it comes to relational databases. Having utilized it in nearly every API service and website build s...
MySQL is the long term standard when it comes to relational databases. Having utilized it in nearly every API service and website build since 2007, I can offer insight into every angle of MySQL usage. From inner and outer joins to updates and select queries, along with installs, backups, and scalability, all aspects of MySQL can be explored.
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10 years experience | 3 endorsements
PHP is the swiss army knife of web development allowing rapid development of any number of online services, whether RESTful backends or s...
PHP is the swiss army knife of web development allowing rapid development of any number of online services, whether RESTful backends or simple front and back end builds, PHP and the multitude of tutorials, libraries, and frameworks, mean developing nearly anything on it is never hard. The original language of choice for Facebook, among many other high visibility websites, it doesn't look like PHP will be going anywhere fast.
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7 years experience | 2 endorsements
AngularJS has been a breeze of fresh air when it comes to the javascript front end development world. Finally allowing backend RESTful se...
AngularJS has been a breeze of fresh air when it comes to the javascript front end development world. Finally allowing backend RESTful services to be 'glued' to the DOM in an convenient fashion. 5* to google. Personally, I have utilized AngularJS to create a number of web apps, including an event booking system, a dating app, and a social media content sharing system.
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15 years experience | 4 endorsements
The whole web is made of HTML and CSS. If you want to work online, you need to know how to code both with ease. Personally I have been wr...
The whole web is made of HTML and CSS. If you want to work online, you need to know how to code both with ease. Personally I have been writing HTML and CSS code since sometime around 2001.
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REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS

5.0
(32 reviews)
sam barentsen
sam barentsen
April 2024
cool guy, very helpful with figuring out basic concepts and codes.
Armin Naghshineh
Armin Naghshineh
April 2024
John is a saver! He helped me a lot with my script, and he guided me on how we could make changes in my script to get the output that I wanted.
Sadie
Sadie
March 2024
I had follow up questions to an issue that we worked on the previous day and John helped me fix it in literally 10 mins. He's my go to developer now!!!
Sadie
Sadie
March 2024
John helped me get over my hurdle in 20 mins, and explained clearly how. highly recommend him!
Removed User
Removed User
June 2021
Very efficient - knows what he's doing! I'm impressed!
Rick Rieger
Rick Rieger
June 2021
awesome!
Roig Rosa
Roig Rosa
March 2021
Awesome instructor. Knows his material and how to breeze through issues.
rypenn27
rypenn27
January 2021
John is great, we worked on PSQL backend to assist me with a project and he definitely knows his stuff.
Trevor Snell
Trevor Snell
June 2020
Well done!
Trevor Snell
Trevor Snell
June 2020
Great instructor. Knows what he is talking about and is diligent with the work
EMPLOYMENTS
Lead Engineer
ArcnetGPT
2023-05-01-Present

Senior engineer at AI startup, reporting to board. – initially full time team engineering team lead role, then transitioned to par...

Senior engineer at AI startup, reporting to board. – initially full time team engineering team lead role, then transitioned to part-time consulting last 6 months.

  • Implemented end to end functionality including/ web spider, AI page processing, user authentication and community features (voting, commenting, etc), OpenAI and other model integration, natural language processing, web and mobile interfaces, numerous API integrations.
  • Wrote prototype used to raise seed round.
  • Demoable on request.

Technologies React, React Native, TailwindCSS, Nest.JS, TypeScript, MongoDB, OpenAI GPT, Google Authentication, GitLab CI, AWS, Azure

React
React Native
Next.js
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React
React Native
Next.js
NestJS
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Full Stack Developer
Telicent
2023-10-01-2024-01-01

Senior contract engineer at government contractor with clients including MoD, Military, etc - Temporary contract booking while Tel...

Senior contract engineer at government contractor with clients including MoD, Military, etc - Temporary contract booking while Telicent recruited permanent team lead. Refs available.

  • Implemented numerous features for systems used by MoD and other gov clients
  • Implemented Ontology app graph builder using D3, react-flow, and other components
  • Improved search functionality using elastic search, etc.
  • Implemented end to end and unit tests for multiple projects
HTML/CSS
MongoDB
GitHub
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HTML/CSS
MongoDB
GitHub
D3.js
GIS
React
JavaScript
Tailwind css
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Lead Developer
Populi
2022-07-01-2023-11-01

Lead engineer at political technology startup (Reporting direct to CTO)

  • Implemented front end functionality...

Lead engineer at political technology startup (Reporting direct to CTO)

  • Implemented front end functionality including big data renders, interactive maps, geospatially segregated polling with aggregation, news streams from multiple channels, 10s of 1000s of automatically generated chat rooms, intra user messaging, data aggregation, API integrations, etc.
  • Implemented API functionality, including authorisation, messaging, content streams, etc.
  • Demoable on request.
MongoDB
Google Maps
D3.js
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MongoDB
Google Maps
D3.js
Mongoose
React
NestJS
Prisma
Tailwind css
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