Lead Developer

25+ years

Lead Developer with over 25 years' experience delivering both bespoke and large-scale solutions across the public and private sectors including DfE, Open University and London Police. Well versed on a range of Web Technologies and Cloud environments (AWS, Azure). Well versed in Agile, Kanban and Scrum.

Professional Skills

My experience extends over two decades of technology, so below are only the salient items:

Foundational understanding of OOP and systems architecture
.Net Development – primarily web and backend technologies
JavaScript/TypeScript
Node
React
AWS
Lambda
WebAPI
Step Functions
Connect
DynamoDB
and more…
Azure
AI Search
Container App Jobs
Git, Github Actions, Visual Source Safe, TFS, TeamCity
Scrum, Kanban delivery

DfE Experience

Lead Developer for the Continual Professional Development for Childrens Social Workers (CPD) which is a project to design and build a solution whereby Social Workers can take their professional assessments remotely if needed and also, track their career development and goals.

Designing and developing the CPD website and the backend Contentful CMS model
Instituting formal versioning and deployment strategies

Public Sector Experience

Other public sector experience includes development of:

websites for the Open University
fraud prevention APIs for the City of London Police

Private Sector Experience

I have extensive experience in the private sector including:

maintenance and optimisation of the Tesco’s Clubcard Points servers as well as working on their original Brand Guarantee project
website development for easyJet
systems development at Cambridge Assessment (University of Cambridge)