I am a self-taught software engineer with the you build it, you run it mindset and a passion for front-end development. I have over three years of experience in TypeScript, React, and Redux. I’m currently working at loveholidays where I am expanding my knowledge and learning technologies such as BigQuery, GraphQL, and Grafana.
Part of the Checkout team focusing on implementing the right features to drive conversion rate.
Developing, testing, and releasing meaningful changes prioritising positive customer outcome
Investigating and monitoring alerts, errors, and production bugs
Taking part in on-call duties to ensure smooth experience for the users
Working with data products such as BigQuery to understand the customer impact
Providing support to non-technical colleagues by implementing simple features in Sanity, answering queries, and dealing with requests
Part of the Mendeley Cite team building a referencing tool to help researchers and students with their publications.
Participated in user research sessions to understand the user journey, and their pain points, and gather feedback for improvements
Successfully tested, modified, and deployed new features in fortnightly releases
Established a better understanding of testing within the team as the testability expert and improved existing testing processes. Gave a company-wide presentation advocating the enhanced testing strategy
Improved app accessibility by introducing the jest-axe library for screen-readers and participating in workshops and pair programming sessions. Received an award for implementation of accessibility into the main flow of the product
Took the initiative to create debugging tools to help efficiently resolve support queries
Worked closely with the Microsoft team to discuss their new releases and better understand how it may help Mendeley Cite