I'm a full-stack developer based in London with a proven track
record of breaking down problems, identifying efficient solutions,
and delivering results. Over the past 10+ years, I've worked across
industries - from early-stage startups to established agencies. My
focus is on writing clean, functional code that solves real business
needs.
My core tech is Node.js, React, Typescript and their respective
ecosystems, but I'm comfortable working in, and contributing to
services built in a range of programming languages.
I'm particularly interested in opportunities involving functional
languages like Elixir or Clojure.
Oak National Academy
(2021-2024)
AI Labs: In 2023 I was approached by Oak to help them
take their LLM experiments from prototype scripts to production
services. We launched 2 new AI tools to assist teachers,
utilizing a novel approach of streaming structured LLM responses
to the browser to improve the UX of long-running prompts.
Productionising these entailed instrumenting and adding
authorization/access control, observability, reporting, custom
back-office dashboards and service hardening. Ultimately the
experiments proved successful and Oak are now integrating the AI
features into their main apps.
Stack: Next.js, Typescript, Postgres (w/ Prisma), Clerk,
Inngest, Langhchain, LLMOps, Retool, Redis, tRPC
Prior to AI Labs I worked with Oak on a number of different
projects, spanning the entirety of their tech stack. One
highlight was redeveloping and re-launching their asset
downloads experience. By enabling bulk downloads of entire
lessons or collections of lessons, and streamlining the (fully
accessible) UI, we were able to save teachers a lot of time. On
the back-end, the service was extended to zip bundles of assets
together, intelligently caching them to reduce download times.
I also championed Typescript adoption at Oak, convincing key
stakeholders on the engineering team, mentoring team members on
advanced Typescript techniques, and leading later efforts on
E2E/runtime type-safety
Stack: Next.js, Typescript, Serverless architecture (GCP,
Cloudflare workers), Postgres (w/ Hasura), GraphQL, Sanity.io,
Playwright
Zero-1 /
Lifted care
(2019-2020)
Zero-1 are Corporate Venture Builder & Startup Studio, giving me
the opportunity to work on both their established businesses
(Lifted) and new startups.
Lifted care: Lifted care provide in-home care,
facilitated by both client and carer-facing apps and complex
backoffice software. I worked with Lifted to add and improve
features in their react native apps, react based admin web-apps,
carer payroll calculation and reporting workflows
Aside from Lifted I worked on Zero-1's other experiments,
iterating quickly to try and validate product viability. Another
large part of my responsibilities was supporting their junior
developers through mentoring, pair programming and code review.
Stack: Typescript (+ tsoa, TypeORM, TypeGraphQL), Nest.js,
Next.js, React Native, Postgres, AWS, Cypress
Zappar
(2022)
Zappar worked with Britvic to create a gamified WebAR
experience. While Zappar's internal developers handled the AR
via Three.js, I was tasked with implementing the game
progression logic and third-party backend integration, while
maintaining state synchronization between React and ThreeJS
contexts for a seamless experience.
Stack: React, Zustand, Three.js
y’all
(2021)
Implemented a custom authentication/access control system across
the serverless stack, CMS and Next.js app. Deep sanity
integration for user group and permission management.
Stack: sanity.io, auth0, Next.js, AWS
JAAM
(2021)
Created an interactive learning experience for medical
professionals to learn about new immunotherapy treatments.
Implemented in React as a game-like experience with branching
learning paths, with each state and path declaratively
represented in a dependency graph.
Stack: React, Typescript
Moving Brands
(2019, 2020)
I've worked with Moving Brands on a number of projects,
including:
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Adding realtime session functionality to deliver virtual
tours of a large manufacturer's facilities during COVID-19.
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Building a marketing site for a california based electric
vehicle company, including user generated content
submissions.
Skills: Next.js, Hapi, sanity.io, Serverless framework (AWS),
Typescript, Gatsby.js
YunoJuno (HQ)
(2019)
Re-platformed YunoJuno’s hard-coded gatsby marketing site to be
CMS driven.
Skills: React, Gatsby.js, Contentful, GraphQL
Wizarding World (via Huge)
(2018)
Led a team to build the first stages of a the Wizarding World
web platform.
Stack: React (SSR), GraphQL, Node, Contentful, Jest, CSS Modules
Ekino
(2017)
Built a financial dashboard powered by a modular CMS,
integrating with both new and legacy APIs.
Stack: React, RxJS, D3.js
Beamly
(2017)
Built the platform to power the next generation of marketing
sites for a range of household beauty & fragrance companies.
Skills: Node, Express, Chai, Cucumber
StinkDigital
(2016)
Created cutting-edge digital experiences including a digital
treasure-trail housed in a web-based OS and a webGL + AI-powered
fashion designer.
Skills: React, Redux, OS.js, Express
2PAx
Built both the prototype and v1 of a real-time restaurant
management platform.
Skills: React, Redux (& Sagas), websockets, Stripe integration
Instinctif Partners
Redeveloped a legacy site whilst implementing a new design
system to be used across microsites. Built a custom data
visualization microsite.
Skills: React, Design systems, Jekyll, Wordpress
Unmade
Refreshed marketing site to reflect new brand direction,
extracted shared components from marketing & e-commerce
projects into a component library.
Skills: ES6, CSS, Static-site generators, accessible &
responsive design
The Rumpus Room
Built large scale innovative campaigns for clients such as the
UN, sporting celebrities and musicians. Rapid prototyping of
campaigns in conjunction with creatives.
Skills: React, Redux, prototyping
The Telegraph
Developed a tool for journalists to enrich articles with
contextual information, with similar tools now used by many big
name digital news sites.
Skills: React, Bootstrap, UX, prototyping
Work experience (permanent / other)
WhatLeadsTo
(2015)
Built the early stages of a platform to help charities and
business better measure and report their social impact. Worked
closely with designers and stakeholders to rapidly prototype and
test features.
Skills: React (w/ Flux architecture), Node, Express, MongoDB
Kota Creative
(2014)
Led development on a host of websites for clients in the
hospitality sector.
Skills: Front-end, Wordpress
FuelStory / Converge Collective
(2013)
Worked on the rebranding and strategy for a rapidly growing
London coworking space and prototyped a number of small apps and
websites, handling everything from design to competitor research
and market analysis.
Skills: Prototyping, Front-end, Design, Wordpress
BA Digital Media Design
(2012 - 2015)
London College of Communication
A multi-disciplinary degree focusing on creative applications of
technology, in my final year I focused on applications of wearable
technology. For my thesis I developed a prototype 3D-printed
wearable, using BLE to communicate with a companion iOS app
(Obj-C) and the accompanying web services backing it.
Skills: Creative coding, hardware, motion graphics, 3D modelling,
video production