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• Senior Software Engineer, Kroger

  Jun, 2021 - Present

  • Develop eCommerce web and Merchandising applications in cloud platform technologies

  • Collaborate with designers & product managers to iterate on the design & implementation of our product

  • Work with Engineers both onshore and offshore

  • Identify and uphold engineering best practices

  • Monitor performance, watch for traffic drops related to usability problems & rectify the issues

  • Review app and feature code, and plan future API upgrades with the development team

  • Stay up to date on emerging technologies Kroger Technology

• Lead Software Engineer, ThoughtWorks

  Jan, 2020 - Apr, 20211 year 2 months

  ThoughtWorks is a privately owned, global technology company with 43 offices in 14 countries. It provides software design and delivery, and tools and consulting services. The company is closely associated with the movement for agile software development, and has contributed to a content of open source products.

  • Lead and take part in the entire cycle of software consulting and delivery from ideation to deployment and everything in between.

  • Act as a mentor for less-experienced peers through both technical knowledge and leadership skills.

  • Design solutions and choose technologies that solve clients’ problems while staying within constraints.

  • Use continuous delivery practices to improve software delivery speed

  • Work in collaborative, product-focused teams to build innovative customer experiences

  • Utilise the latest technology thinking from TW tech radar in my work

  • Apply a variety of languages to your work and continue to code alongside Developers

• Developer, Listium

  Jan, 2016 - Jan, 20182 years

  Built a very large and complex React / Redux application. It works on all platforms and has IOS/Android builds due to it being a PWA. (wrapped it in React Native though only implementing a WebView)

  • Worked with Postgres, Redis and Dynamodb for storage.

  • Hosted on a mixture of Heroku Apps and EC2 servers.

  • Caching by Fastly and Cloudflare

  • Hybrid app supported on all platforms

• Co-Founder, Cdnjs

  Jan, 2011 - Present

  Following Google’s CDN for jQuery, we decided to start a CDN for the less popular Javascript frameworks. The CDN is community moderated and open source on GitHub. We secured a partnership with Cloudflare who now supports the infrastructure.

  • Millions of sites use the CDN in production

  • Larger market share than Yahoo's, Microsoft's and Google's javascript content distribution networks

  • We serve hundreds of billions request a month

  • Contains over 3000 popular Javascript libraries

  • Millions of developers visit the site per year

• Developer, Electronic Frontier Foundation

  Apr, 2014 - Jan, 20161 year 9 months

  Hired to take EFF's campaigning to the next level by building an action centre in Ruby on Rails. The action centre is built around some large open source tools that lower the barrier to entry when contacting congress.

  • Developed new tools for contacting congress

  • Brainstormed campaign ideas to raise maximum awareness about issues

  • Lots of social networking integration

• CTO, Earbits

  Mar, 2013 - Jan, 20151 year 10 months

  Started off as a front end developer but took on the role of CTO in early 2013. The application frontend is built with Javascript and organized as a single page application that talks to a collection of Rails web servers which are connected to MongoDB.

  • Managed a small team of developers and designers

  • Built the entire frontend application with Backbone.js

  • Transferred all of the infrastructure from Heroku to AWS

• Founder, JSON Resume

  Apr, 2014 - Present

  JSON Resume is a community driven open source initiative to create a JSON based standard for resumes. There is no reason why there can't be a common standard for writing a resume that can be extended with an ecosystem of open source tools.

  • This resume is built with JSON Resume

  • Over 3000 stars on Github

  • Community developed themes

  • Tens of thousands of users

• Developer, Taskforce.is

  Jun, 2013 - Jan, 20162 years 7 months

  Worked on many politically charged campaigns against mass surveillance. Not only technically challenging work but also a lot of networking and getting my hands dirty with politics. Our biggest project was "TheDayWeFightBack"..

  • Generated 37,000,000 banner views

  • 100, 000 phone calls to congress

  • 500, 000 emails

  • 250, 000 signatures

• Co-Founder, Drone Hire

  Jan, 2013 - Present

  An international directory of civilian drone / UAV operators for hire. Services include aerial photography, aerial video, mapping, surveying, precision agriculture, real estate photography, remote inspections and infrared imaging. Our plan is to be the place to go when looking for UAV/Drone services. The website is built in Backbone.js and API is built with Node.js and Postgres.

  • The site and blog combined have managed to receive over 200,000 visitors in 2014.

• Founder, BackboneTutorials.com

  Jan, 2011 - Jan, 20143 years

  I write tutorials and blog post regarding the popular Javascript framework Backbone.js. The tutorials cover a range of topics regarding front end development aimed at beginners, experts and anyone in between.

  • Over two million unique visitors a year

  • 25,000+ ebook downloads

  • 300,000+ Youtube views

• Front-end Developer, Ephox

  Jan, 2011 - Jun, 20121 year 5 months

  Ephox is a worldwide company who is heavily involved with the development of TinyMce and enterprise editors. My primary role included building front-end widgets and applications. Worked on a major product using Backbone.js as a base. Heavily involved in UI/UX design and wire-framing. Also spend a lot of time designing API specifications and documentation.

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