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Software Engineer, Poductivity — 2020-

  • Wait and see

Developer, Cornerstones Education — 2017-2020

  • Responsible for maintaining the below systems and helped create their replacement, Curriculum Maestro.

Senior Developer, HACKSAW — 2014-2017
Developer, HACKSAW — 2012-2014

  • Built WordPress themes and plugins for a wide range of clients
  • Created and maintained a range of products and systems for a specific client in the education sector, in use in over 1,500 schools and with more than 30,000 users. These include:
    • A bespoke Laravel based system for managing and tracking pupil progress which produces reports and graphs on subsets or individual pupils for parent evenings, Ofsted inspections etc.
    • WordPress based teaching resource portal with social features
    • WooCommerce based e-commerce platform selling educational materials
    • Bespoke single sign on-like system which syncs profile information between web apps, using a background queue process and Gravatar clone to allow users to upload avatars.

Skills

  • Languages – PHP, Javascript, SQL, CSS, HTML 5
  • Frameworks – Node, Laravel, WordPress,WooCommerce
  • Front end – Vue, SASS
  • Build and workflow – Git, Webpack, Build pipelines
  • Server tech – unix, AWS