Senior Developer & Community Leader
Seasoned developer with about 19 years of experience in the
tech industry.
Expertise spans JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, and JavaScript frameworks
with over 8 years years of hands-on experience.
Holds over 6 years years of commercial experience in
development teams, delivering projects across various frameworks like
Svelte and React.
Previous career of over 12 years as a senior-level Analyst Developer, focusing on Microsoft Office
automation for large financial organisations.
In addition to technical skills, a proven track record in leadership
and advocacy roles. Passionate about using modern technology and
continually keen to improve existing skills and learn new ones.
Location: UK (Swanley, Kent)
Consultant
OES Technology Apr 2021 - Present (3yrs 6mos) Summary
Team lead and developer advocate that has played significant roles in
increasing best practices, visibility and adoption of clients
platforms.
A Svelte ambassador, organising monthly Svelte Society London events
for about 3 years now.
International conference speaker. Workshop host (in person and
remote).
Continually nurturing and building relationships with community and
industry leaders. A demonstrable deep commitment to educating and
supporting the Svelte community.
Application Team Lead
XtendOps Sep 2023 - Present (1yr 2mos) Summary
Oversee a large SvelteKit monorepo codebase. Responsibilities include
leading a team of talented developers and ensuring best practices
throughout the development lifecycle.
Code owner across several apps ensuring code quality and consistency
working with the team via Slack and GitHub.
Highlights
Implementation of a UI package for multiple applications
Slashing CI/CD times using Vercel prebuilt assets
Developer Relations Engineer
Storyblok Aug 2022 - Aug 2023 (1yr) Summary
Helping enterprise customers to understand and get value out of
Storyblok in workshops, tutorials, and customer demos.
Write sample applications, prototypes, and code samples to showcase
the power and flexibility of Storyblok and the headless approach to
content management.
Help external developers to overcome missing functionalities or
technical issues by using plugins, tools, apps, or custom scripts.
Contribute code updates and bug fixes to Storyblok’s public projects
(e.g. SDKs, sample applications, starter kits).
Highlights
Building with SvelteKit, main stage at Connect Tech 2022, Atlanta.
Svelte Summit Fall 2022, Sweden.
Developer Advocate
GraphCMS Apr 2021 - Jul 2022 (1yr 3mos) Summary
Content creation in the form of blog posts, workshops and educational
videos.
Coordinating meet-up events and conference talks to gather and
energise users.
Creating and maintaining partnerships with community and industry
leaders.
Gathering feedback from community and end-users to communicate with
product development to improve product designs.
Highlights
Jamstack Conf 2021 Workshop, “Build with SvelteKit and GraphQL” build a fast secure project that uses SvelteKit’s features.
Jamstack Explorers Mission: ”Building with SvelteKit
and GraphCMS“.
Recorded 26 getting started videos for the GraphCMS examples repo on
GitHub.
Deep dives on getting started with SvelteKit and Data Binding with
Svelte.
Web Developer
Karmarama Sep 2018 - Apr 2021 (2yrs 7mos) Summary
Web Developer working in the Creative Products section of Karmarama.
Working on varied projects. Mainly front end with React.
Team DevOps. As the longest serving member of the Web Team overseeing
deployments of the majority of projects hosted internally. This was
using a mixture of old Ubuntu servers (v16) and Rackspace servers
(v18).
Highlights
Built internal Pinstagram used for onboarding and pitch books where
staff at Karmarama share articles seen as good, PR, Production,
Marketing, etc. Built with NextJS, Prisma (GraphQL data layer) and
GraphQL Yoga (Express).
Evangelised the use of Gatsby in the team for sites that did not need
a lot of user generated content.
One of the first projects (client design system) to use MDX with
Gatsby.
Created a client PWA with Preact using Lottie animations provided by
in house illustrator.
Worked on custom built CMS for client using vanilla React.
Front-End Developer
Zaizi Mar 2018 - Aug 2018 (5mos) Summary
Worked in agile teams to develop new user-facing features. Using best
practices to create front end applications. Using JavaScript
frameworks such as React and Gatsby and styling with styled-components
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Highlights
Evaluate several CMS’ for use, Contentful, GraphCMS and CrafterCMS
Working in an agile team in the delivery of initial sprints of the ncsc.gov.uk site.
Interests
Mechanical keyboards, a never ending rabbit hole!
Writing how-to’s and guides on scottspence.com.
Watching YouTube videos on mechanical engineering and restorations.
Massive Drum and Bass fan!