Ricky James

ABOUT ME

A passionate Software Engineer, with over 9 years of experience building small to big enterprise web and mobile applications.

I am an experience software engineer from the Yorkshire area, with years of experience in JS, armed with experience in its various UI libraries, especially ReactJS. I work and build a few companies in the past where I lead or was part of building their react native apps, these include the circle voting app on channel 4 and the KFC colonel app.

I breathe and eat software, always looking to help and explain things in-depth either through code or virtually.

Programming is not about typing, it's about thinking. Also, a product doesn't have to just look good but work really well as well, thus I have an eye for detail and a special problem-solving ability to produce the functionality needed.

Edinburgh (+01:00)

Joined July 2022

EXPERTISE

React Native

5 years experience

I have extensive knowledge in React Native and have built 2 banking applications such as RoosterMoney and UMoney in RN and numerous betti...

I have extensive knowledge in React Native and have built 2 banking applications such as RoosterMoney and UMoney in RN and numerous betting applications such as Betfred and PickGuru.

React

5 years experience

JavaScript

8 years experience

I have been writing vanilla JS since 2014 and worked with a wide spectrum of frameworks from jquery to backbone, emberJS, angular, and re...

I have been writing vanilla JS since 2014 and worked with a wide spectrum of frameworks from jquery to backbone, emberJS, angular, and react. I always make sure to keep myself refreshed and up to date with the latest technologies, advances and improvements in the Javascript world.

Redux

5 years experience

PHP

6 years experience

Python

4 years experience

AWS (Amazon Web Services)

6 years experience

SOCIAL PRESENCE

Community Posts

React page animation using react-spring

Start by scallfodding a project with the react create app command npx create-react-app sprint-animation Then install react spring animation npm i s react-spring We will then import the useSpring...

Add animation to your expo splash screen

Install Packages npx create-expo-app splashScreenAnimation yarn add react-native-animated-splash-screen Require RN animated splash screen. Initially set your loading to false then update it in...

Connecting MySQL to your node sequilize application

EMPLOYMENTS

Software developer

Betfred

2022-02-01-2022-06-01

Worked with Betfred to help migrate their existing users to their new application.

React

JavaScript

Redux

React

JavaScript

Redux

Contract Software Engineer

RoosterMoney

2021-12-01-2022-02-01

Short contract to help integrate 3DS secure payments integration into the existing RoosterMoney mobile application and help fixing variou...

Short contract to help integrate 3DS secure payments integration into the existing RoosterMoney mobile application and help fixing various bugs prior to release. I was mainly working in Cordova, RXjs, Redux, React, TypeScript, NodeJS, BackboneJS and was involved in various Miro example maps(EMs) and user flows. Also involved in converting Angular MFEs into React. Also working on the laravel backend and creating APIs. Perfected the Node server and built pipelines on TeamCity. This project was heavily based on test driven development using enzyme and jest for testing most part of the application.

React

RxJS

Redux

React

RxJS

Redux

Apache cordova

Contract Software Engineer

MyKnowledgeMaps

2021-08-01-2021-12-01

I am mainly working solely on developing a new form system for university nursing students. This was heavily using React, Typescript and ...

I am mainly working solely on developing a new form system for university nursing students. This was heavily using React, Typescript and React-bootstrap. It also involved taking responsibility for this part of the project, meeting deadlines and demoing to stakeholders every fortnight. Used Cypress for FE testing and worked on editing git action for automated builds into AWS

TypeScript

React

Redux

TypeScript

React

Redux

AWS (Amazon Web Services)

PROJECTS

West coast rail waysView Project

2019

PHP

MySQL

HTML5

PHP

MySQL

HTML5

CSS3

Laravel

Bootstrap

Tailwind css

Vue.js

battersea power stationView Project

2016

PHP

Bootstrap

Es6

PHP

Bootstrap

Es6

Pimcore

AWS (Amazon Web Services)