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Simon
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Frontend Development
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About me
I have a versatile skill set after working with B2B & B2C agencies, online retailers, fortune 500 companies and as a freelance developer. Having started my development career in 2008 I have seen the industry evolve and have enjoyed learning and growing with it. I pride myself on my knowledge, expertise and quality of work.

Work experience

Garden Games Ltd
June 2008 – December 2012
Job title
Senior Developer
Work experience & achievements
Having joined at 15 out of secondary school my skills were spread across a range of responsibilities. Working with the general manager I designed, built and marketed eCommerce and content websites. Substantial achievements include the design and development of 50+ websites, development of an offline and online 3D product design application, SEO growth and management of the PPC campaign/email campaigns, a rebuild of their internal order processing system, multi site real-time stocks, product review platforms etc
KoaLoa
January 2013 – December 2013
Job title
Fullstack Developer
Work experience & achievements
I took a year out to travel while freelancing, this was done via a website called WorkAway. Most of my time was spent in Hawaii working with a startup called KoaLoa, this was a marketing platform built in codeigniter. I worked with 3 other developers and also wrote a scraper/crawler in PHP to automate their marketing campaigns with mailchimp.
JWT (HeathWallace)
December 2013 – May 2015
Job title
JavaScript Developer
Work experience & achievements
Working in the rich UI team I reported directly to the lead developer and was responsible for writing agile, performance orientated production ready JavaScript applications, libraries and web components. At HeathWallace I gained a deeper understanding of programming languages and specifically JavaScript. Before the age of modern framework’s a lot of the work we did here involved hand crafting custom JavaScript libraries and components for some of the worlds largest financial companies. While here I traveled to HSBC’s HQ in Hong Kong to rebuild their public facing website hsbc.com, built the HSBC premier landing page and also developed a number of proof of concepts for the HSBC global service platform. I was also involved in developing ANZ banks mobile banking application, specifically the customise your card flow + bug-fixing. There were also a number of internal applications that I built such as a custom timesheet/logging application and an internal employee dashboard.
Twogether
May 2015 – June 2017
Job title
Senior Fullstack Developer
Work experience & achievements
At Twogether I was an integral member of the dev team. I initially worked for the agency and after a year transitioned to lead the front-end rebuild of a channel marketing application - partnermarketing.com. While at the agency I worked mostly with custom WordPress builds, landing pages, consulting and proof of concepts. In my time at Twogether I worked mainly with B2B clients such as Intuit, Brocade, Lenovo and Symantec. I developed a proof of concept in 2 days which won a substantial pitch, this later turned into a long-term engagement to create an interactive touch table to be used at Intuits conferences and developed a number of websites, landing pages and email campaigns. I was also involved in modernizing engineering practices, implementing pattern libraries, testing, CI/CD and coding standards as well as being an advocate of agile best practices.
BYND
June 2017 – Current time
Job title
Principal Engineer
Work experience & achievements
As principal engineer at BYND I'm the most senior member of the front-end engineering team. I actively work with our largest clients and govern the front-end engineering team and engage with the wider engineering team at BYND. While here I’ve played a vital role in shaping the front-end engineering team. I’ve also been out-sourced in Google’s core engineering team building WearOS. I developed Google’s online digital learning platform, Digital Garage - used by millions of users all over the world. Traveled to New York to help rebuild shutterstock.com as a monorepo leveraging SSR and developed a first of its kind lookdev application for MPC Film leveraging WebAssembly and WebGL.

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