Senior Developer

Bizzby

Stealth startup. Worked here for just a bit longer than a month on...

Technology Stack: Domain-Driven Design (DDD), CoffeeScript (JavaScript), Mocha.js, MongoDB, HTML, CSS.

• Adding APIs to add and remove skills from a user, as well as to make skill suggestions. Altered other APIs to order by matched skills.
• Adding features to the CMS to manage (view, edit, remove) skill suggestions, users, user skills, categories, etc.

Lead Developer

We R Interactive Ltd

"We R Interactive blends the best of games, film and TV production to create social games that bring global audiences together around sport and music. In 2012 their game ‘I AM PLAYR’ took the first Gold in the new Branded Content and Entertainment category at the Cannes Lions Awards and was nominated for ‘best online browser game’ at the BAFTA Video Game Awards."

Technology Stack: JavaScript, Node.js, Cassandra, Redis, Async.js, Socket.io, Underscore.js, Backbone.js, PhoneGap, iOS, Puppet, Jenkins, etc...

• Created a service-orientated architecture that could be pushed or pulled data which was then fed into other systems using a PubSub message queue.
• Created a service which would automatically generate a series of questions from a stream of data and a template.
• Created a real-time market-outcome resolution service that was able to automatically resolve a series of earlier generated questions depending on a stream of real-life data.
• Created an extensive logging system to help troubleshoot issues with a third-party supplier of data.
• Helped to create a RESTful front-end API.

Lead Developer

Saffron Digital

“Saffron Digital is the global, market-leading provider of connected device video, DRM, advertising and platform services. Key areas include phone-preloaded content, online stores, billing platforms, mobile websites and set-top box systems.”

• Helped design a (60+ table) database for the HTC Watch web service. This has since been launched in over 20 countries. Later on I became the project leader.
  Features include: internationalisation (i18n); multiple payment services; APIs; fully-featured CMS and a reports system for use by the operations and finance departments.
• Work on the new platform using a combination of Python (Django), Puppet and RabbitMQ.
• Other projects that I worked on included: (1) A client-side application for Connected TVs and set-top boxes written in object-orientated Javascript. (2) A RESTful web service for FOX to support a fully localised Family Guy video streaming Android application. A CMS was also created to help enter data, as well as reporting tools to give the business metrics to measure activity. (3) A web service for Paramount Studio’s the League of Extraordinary Dancers iPhone Application. This was interoperable with the iTunes video store in order to check receipts. (4) Features on LG Movies on Mobile.

Web Developer Internship

Guru

Worked on a wordpress site that used the ‘Buddypress’ plugin to create a social network for the unemployed. Provided jQuery, CSS, PHP and XHTML skills on a redesign.