Having been fortunate enough to work with a wide variety of businesses across a range of different industries during a career spanning over a decade, I've gained a wealth of experience that's not only helped hone my technical abilities, but taught me the best way to apply those abilities to the problem at hand.
As a developer, my primary focus is translating business requirements into simple, secure, and scalable applications that adhere to modern best practices.
Studying Web Information Systems & Services from 2008-2012, Sheffield Hallam University served as the launch platform for a career in tech. Graduated in 2012 with a 2:1
During my placement year at university, I was fortunate enough to work for a digital agency in Bakewell with clients in industries ranging from estate agents to oil deliveries. Shortly after starting I became the sole developer, helping to deliver not just client sites, but improving the internal job tracking software too
Working during my final year of university for a lead generation company in Sheffield, handling incredibly large datasets in MySQL
Fresh out of university, Xbite - video games retailer based near Sheffield - was my first 'proper' job in the industry, working on both internal warehouse management software and the retail site itself
Briefly heading back to agency work before making the jump into the contract world, Evoluted New Media in Sheffield delivered modern, responsive websites to clients all around the country
Initially brought on board for 3 months to implement efficiency improvements to an internal codebase via the introduction of Rabbit MQ, I spent the next half decade working on incredibly varied projects from augmented reality to a brand new ecommerce platform, and all sorts in between. Working with Dixons Carphone was not only a pleasure, but also a fantastic opportunity to work with all kinds of tools and technologies along the way
After taking a summer break during the initial wave of the pandemic, I took up a contract with Quidco to work on enhancing a newly-built promotions platform. Ironically, despite being based in Sheffield where I'd spent the first half of my career to date, the effect of the pandemic was a fully remote contract. Regardless, this was a great opportunity to work with some talented people doing exciting things in the cashback space
As the fastest growing ecommerce business in Europe, OnBuy's technical underpinnings had to be equally fast-growing in order to keep pace with ever-increasing traffic. Brought on for a 6 month contract, I worked with OnBuy to take the lead in implementing a new communications platform as well as making various changes and improvements to the website at large
A market leader in the property reporting space, serving thousands of customers across the UK Inventory Hive were looking to expand into new greenfield areas. Taking the lead on a brand new project, from initial discussions right through the development, management, and ultimate release to production I was able to draw upon nearly a decade and a half of experience to ensure the best quality deliverable in the shortest possible time, delivered incrementally for early feedback and iteration following Agile best principles