A JavaScript developer with over 4 years of commercial
experience in working in development teams delivering projects.
With over 6 years experience in using JavaScript, HTML and
CSS, and commercial experience in using frameworks like Svelte
(over 1 year) and React (over 4 years).
Enthusiastic about using modern technology and very keen to improve on
existing skills and to learn new ones.
10+ years previous experience as a senior-level
Analyst Developer specialising in Microsoft Office automation for
large financial organisations.
Location: UK (Swanley, Kent)
Developer Relations Engineer
Storyblok
Aug 2022 - Present (2mos)
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
Representing Storyblok at Svelte Summit Fall 2022.
Developer Advocate
GraphCMS
Apr 2021 - Jul 2022 (1yrs 4mos)
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
Svelte Society London co-organiser, co-ordinated the Svelte London
meet-up for the last seven months now.
Jamstack Conf 2021 Workshop, “Build with SvelteKit and GraphQL”build a fast secure project that uses SvelteKit’s features.
Blog posts on getting started with SvelteKit and Data Binding with
Svelte.
Web Developer
Karmarama
Sep 2018 - Apr 2021 (2yrs 8mos)
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 pitchbooks 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 (6mos)
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.
Watching YouTube videos on mechanical engineering and restorations.
Massive Drum and Bass fan!
Testimonials
Scott understands business needs and rapidly meets all requirements.
He is great to work with and would be great on any project
– Sandra Penfold
Scott picked up a difficult technical concept relating to the
reconciliation of multiple financial products very quickly,
including financial derivatives. Very unusually, he also had to do
this whilst learning and applying SQL database programming in an
investment banking sales environment where the only choice was
self-directed learning and working without support. Scott was
excellent - self-supporting, motivated, quick to learn and focused
on delivery. I would not only recommend him, I would seek to work
with him again in the future. Ah, if only he hadn’t left the
company…
