Lead Software Engineer / Tech Lead / Senior Full-Stack Developer at Freelance

Major clients: Maritime NZ, Raisely, Volition, Eddy Works Tech: React, TypeScript, Next.js, Recharts, React Hook Form, Node, REST APIs, SQL, BigQuery, LLM-assisted development • Prepared Eddy for pursuit of SOC 2 and ISO 27001 accreditation, including gap analysis • Implemented event-triggered webhooks, establishing the foundation for integrations with external products • Designed and implemented dashboards and data visualizations combining information from multiple data sources, including workspace- and organization-level reporting • Improved automated testing practices across multiple projects, including accessibility analysis, E2E test reliability and speed, code coverage, and static analysis • Designed and implemented product-wide UX improvements, including colour-based wayfinding, typography, and detailed interaction and visual-consistency refinements • Identified and resolved a difficult-to-reproduce production bug involving section ordering, including migration of affected production data

Practice Lead + Bootcamp Leadership at Dev Academy Aotearoa

Tech: React, TypeScript, JS, Node, REST APIs, Express, Jest, React Testing Library • Guided curriculum and process updates, including an update to task documentation that reduced related student complaints by 70% • Automated student acquisition workflows to reduce weekly human-hours by at least 50% in 2023 • Researched, developed, and delivered new products, including interviewing 22 industry stakeholders in 2022 and leading a pilot programme of 17 students in 2023

People Lead + Senior Engineer (Design Systems) at Xero

Tech: React, TypeScript, JS, Storybook, HTML, CSS, testing People Lead + Sr Engineer, Design Systems • Initiated the implementation of more rigorous quality processes and predictable release cadences, accelerating the adoption of new design system versions by 30% • Provided pastoral care for as many as five developers, from graduate-level to senior Front-End Developer, Design Systems • Built performant and maintainable React/CSS components, with user-friendly APIs and a focus on localisation and accessibility • Authored documentation and provided support for developers and designers, with 20% increased engagement and 20% reduced turnaround time on support requests in 2019

Software Engineer at Ticketleap

Tech: Angular 2 (TypeScript), JS, Python, Microservices, REST APIs • Launched green-field consumer web app on micro-services architecture in six months • Served as product owner for the seller-implemented portion of the app, including technical responsibility for successful embedding in a wide array of environments

Lead Front-End Engineer at Brief Tech

• Architected and prototyped from scratch the front-end for a new point-of-care application

Engineering Director / Technical Lead / Front-End Engineer at Monetate, Inc.

Tech: JS, HTML, CSS, Browser scraping, DOM manipulation • Managed career growth and day-to-day technical work for 5–7 JavaScript engineers, while serving as technical advisor and point of contact for engineering and client-facing teams • Used a home-brewed JS library to build reusable customization scripts for customer websites