Created a new navigation menu for an e-commerce site

Upgraded an application to Ruby 3

Upgraded an application to Rails 6

Added a hero image scrolling to an e-commerce site

Migrated a clients application pages from Twitter Bootstrap 2.3 to 5.2.2

Delivered a project which improved the search interface for recruiters to be able to easily find the candidates they were looking for the roles which needed to be filled using React.js and Ruby on Rails to develop

I was a member of a team working on projects which improved Kajima’s booking system for their clients which included the NHS, I worked on the following projects:-

Delivered a discounted pricing feature to all properties and clients

I upgraded the Rails and Ruby gem versions for the main application to their latest versions

Built PDF generation for Invoices and Credit notes issued into the system, allowing clients to print and download them on demand

Made a developer experience enhancement which was creating a local payment gateway so developers could make payments for bookings on their own machines which helped speed up development

Leading the Event Marketing team whose remit was improving the email functionality Hopin offers, the team owned the full life-cycle of sending out emails

Delivered a new user experience which increased usage of the Email marketing feature by developing a redesigned React.js frontend which was being served with Grape API endpoints

Acted as the technical representative of the team in meetings with the business, communicated estimates of projects to stakeholders, designed technical diagrams for new functionality, broke down work into tickets for the team to pick up and unblocked developers who were stuck

Part of the recruitment team for developers which involved the technical part of the interview by giving candidates a problem to solve over a live code editor, providing guidance, answering their questions and providing feedback after the interview

Lead a team of developers responsible for Search on the Fuse platform

Delivered a migration of the Search backend from SOLR to ElasticSearch

Helped the Product manager prioritise the product backlog for search

Represented the team on a technical level in meetings with the wider business

Researched and planed potential new work

Estimated the technical effort required on any new projects

Optimised platform performance by identifying performance bottlenecks, making code changes to fix them and then monitoring the performance after deploying the changes to production

Upgraded the software libraries the system used such as working on updating the version of Rails from 4 to 5

Fixed security issues by resolving identified security vulnerabilities of the system

Migrated an applications database from Postgres to MySQL and also migrating the Continuous Integration service from CircleCI 1.0 to 2.0

I was part of a team which was responsible for increasing borrower conversions which built a micro service which provided quotes when a user was applying for a loan, the micro service communicated with the monolith through RabbitMQ

Developed API endpoints using Ruby on Rails and Grape which served an Angular frontend for a form to allow borrowers to apply for loans

Resolved bugs which occurred in production by carrying out investigations and coming up with solutions to resolve the issue(s)

Peer reviewed other team members work through pull requests

Followed an agile approach towards projects using both Scrum and Kanban

Assisted with recruitment through interviewing candidates, reviewing CV’s, code reviewing candidates test submissions