University of Exeter
BSc (Hons) Biological Sciences - 2:1
SEP06 - AUG09 - 3Y00M
Upgrowth
Joined as a senior fullstack engineer placed inside BigW working on their online ecomm store. Responsible for the development of features within the BigW storefront NextJS application and pipeline that is used by half a million Australians every day.
Wonderbly
Promoted to lead frontend as the engineering team grew with investment. Responsibilities included, but were not limited to, the following. Line management and mentoring of 2 frontend engineers and a QA engineer. Hiring and interviewing of new applicants. Attending leads meetings to discuss technology, infrastructure and future direction of the ecomm webapp. Running workshops on various topics and technologies to upskill engineers across the business. Spiking and laying foundations for new complex UI components. Investigating and reporting on website performance. General everyday responsibilities tracking deployments and error reporting to maintain a working webapp with maximum uptime.
Some of the more recent work involved planning the deprecation pathway for the legacy React webapp while laying the groundwork inside the new Turborepo and Astro application to significantly lift performance scores. Among other things I oversaw a project to integrate Algolia search.
Wonderbly
A full time position within the digital team working predominantly on the ecommerce react/node application and external packages. My role was to regain order of the application while deprecating old code and removing inefficiencies as well as providing structure and standards to the team by mentoring junior developers. The application and its external packages are a mix of many new and older technologies due to its continued development: React, hooks, redux, webpack, jest, mocha, nightwatch/cucumber, scss, github workflows, prismic.
Collectiv Food
A 6 week contract to rebuild Collectiv’s public facing marketing website. As instructed the site was built with Nuxt, PCSS, Vuex, and content was provided via Contentful.