Angry-Kitty
Angry Kitty is an app designed to harass your friends for owed money from organising an event.
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ABOUT ME
Pragmatic, reliable and passionate Full Stack Developer
Pragmatic, reliable and passionate Full Stack Developer
Web developer with 5 years of experience working in Full Stack, Back-End and Front-End roles. Passionate about software craftsmanship, code quality and best practices. Comfortable working and communicating in leadership positions having worked as a Lead Developer. Experienced working in highly collaborative, Agile teams. Trusted to mentor junior colleagues, solve problems and discuss planning and scaling of projects.
English
Mountain Time (US & Canada) (-06:00)
Joined April 2019
EXPERTISE
5 years experience
I've been working with Ruby and specifically Ruby on Rails projects professionally for the last 5 years. This was the first web framework...
I've been working with Ruby and specifically Ruby on Rails projects professionally for the last 5 years. This was the first web framework I learnt and is the backbone of my skillset. I have used ruby as the core stack in projects, as well as for standalone microservices or APIs
5 years experience
Since May 2018 I worked as a Lead Front End developer at the Money Advice Service. This role was partly acting as a coach and mentor as w...
Since May 2018 I worked as a Lead Front End developer at the Money Advice Service. This role was partly acting as a coach and mentor as well as a communicator to the rest of the business. The other part was as a technical lead and helping the team develop strong, robust and maintainable javascript (and other frontend) features. I have predominantly used JavaScript, CoffeeScript, jQuery for the last 5 years.
5 years experience
Building website that a semantic for both design and accessibility is a passion of mine. I always want to ensure the user can get the bes...
Building website that a semantic for both design and accessibility is a passion of mine. I always want to ensure the user can get the best experience possible, regardless of what device/browser or accessibility requirements they have.
2 years experience
3 years experience
2 years experience
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EMPLOYMENTS
Lead Front End Developer
Money Advice Service
2018-05-01-2019-03-01
A company set up by the UK government to provide free and impartial money advice.
Technical Lead, Manager and Coach as part of a cross...
A company set up by the UK government to provide free and impartial money advice.
Technical Lead, Manager and Coach as part of a cross-functional Agile development team
Actively focused on aligning standards and testing best practices within the team
Delivered high quality front-end code across a broad variety of interactive web and mobile projects
Championed standards of accessibility and responsiveness
Built efficient, reusable and well documented code, with the latest HTML, CSS and JavaScript techniques to build cross-platform interfaces
Ruby on Rails
HTML5
CSS3
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Ruby on Rails
HTML5
CSS3
JavaScript
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Back End Developer
Money Advice Service
2017-05-01-2018-05-01
Back-End developer as part of a cross-functional Agile development team to deliver high quality web applications for our customers
Use...
Back-End developer as part of a cross-functional Agile development team to deliver high quality web applications for our customers
Used Ruby on Rails and the latest technologies and frameworks to build web applications, through writing efficient, reusable and well documented code
Heavily involved in the delivery of two new projects as well as implementing new features on legacy projects
Pushed for high code quality standards, and well written automated tests
Supported migration of projects being setup on Docker
Focused time on migrating build pipelines from GoCD to Jenkins
Ruby
HTML/CSS
Ruby on Rails
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Ruby
HTML/CSS
Ruby on Rails
RSpec
Cucumber
npm
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Full Stack Developer
Factory Media Ltd
2014-09-01-2017-05-01
An adventure sports media company with multiple brands and websites, built on a custom WordPress foundation with various Ruby gems, Rai...
An adventure sports media company with multiple brands and websites, built on a custom WordPress foundation with various Ruby gems, Rails and Node.js applications included.
Part of a very small, extremely agile team
Migrated all projects and microservices onto Docker with all instances hosted on AWS
Heavily involved in a complete restructure and redesign of all templates and front-end architecture adding a significant improvement in page load times and user engagement
Used Ruby on Rails and React.js to build new tools, to enhance the user experience of the sites, as well as for internal business monitoring; implemented as microservices
Moved Continuous Integration and deployment infrastructure onto Jenkins
Ruby on Rails
WordPress
RSpec
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Ruby on Rails
WordPress
RSpec
Jenkins
Cucumber
CoffeeScript
Docker
React
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PROJECTS
Workplace pension contribution calculatorView Project
Money Advice Service
2017
Ruby on Rails
Ruby on Rails
Mpora - action sports media websiteView Project
Factory Media
2016
HTML/CSS
Ruby on Rails
WordPress
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HTML/CSS
Ruby on Rails
WordPress
JavaScript
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