Experience

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  Freelance

  Jan 2012 - Mar 2014

  3d designer

  Employers.Disney/Jakks Pacific .ltdResponsible for creating complete character models based on client briefs. Working closely with Clients to reach best results possible.Services available:Concept SculptingGame Ready Character Creation (Modelling, Texturing)Prop Design and CreationSkillset:Autodesk Maya - ExpertPhotoshop - ExpertPixologic Zbrush - ExpertUnreal Development Kit - BasicUnity - Basic

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  Xd studios

  Jan 2014 - Sept 2016

  Managing director and lead designer

  Co-Founder and Managing Director of XD-Studios in Swansea, Wales.- Built an effective team of creative professionals and engineers by managing recruitment, one-to-ones, and performance reviews.- Executed vital business operations, from project management to brand development and stakeholder relations, as well as HR, finance, and administration.

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  Deloitte digital

  Nov 2017 - Apr 2022

  Senior Software Engineer working as part of an agile multi-disciplinary team that built multiple online social schemes from design to release, scaling the service from 500 daily users in July 2019 to over 90,000 in July 2020.- Led a team of software developers in creating a proof of concept to transform the department's legacy frontend architecture to a component-based architecture using React, Typescript, Styled-components, React testing library, Cypress and Storybook- Presented this proposal to the client leadership with excellent feedback- Produced architecture and technical approach documentation and brought the PoC through several architecture review boards- Developed and maintained custom CSS style library written in LESS- Enhanced the keyboard accessibility to be in line with WCAG 2.1 Level AA standard- Decreased technical debt and bugs by providing frontend technical governance (training, documentation, PR review, design QA) across a core team of 24 developers and external vendor teams- Decreased the time to onboard new developers by creating clear, concise technical documentation- Mentored several new joiners across various clients, getting them up to speed quickly and effectively. Show less

  • Senior Frontend Engineer

    Sept 2021 - Apr 2022

  • Frontend Engineer

    Sept 2018 - Sept 2021

  • Junior Frontend Engineer

    Nov 2017 - Sept 2018
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  Éirloop

  Feb 2018 - Jul 2018

  Software engineer

  Software Engineer working with the Electronics Department in a mentorship role towards representing Ireland at the 2018 SpaceX Hyperloop Student Pod Competition Finals. They were one of only 20 teams to be invited to race our Pod at SpaceX HQ in Hawthorne, California, and finished 5th winning the Innovation prize.

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  Dataminr

  Apr 2022 - Apr 2023

  Software engineer (frontend)

  Software Engineer developing and maintaining the GeoVizualisation frontend of a large-scale alerting application as part of the Dataminr Pulse AI-powered real-time risk management solution. - Built new features using Typescript, React and React-Query- Led cross-engineering ways of working sessions and contributed to monorepo maintenance- Implemented and documented new team processes around Onboarding, Code Quality, Release process and PR Reviews- Participated in user story refinement, sprint planning, and team retros with product owner and other stakeholders- Demoed new features to stakeholders- Reviewed and approved team members code and merge requests- Formally mentored colleagues through the Dataminr Mentorship programme Show less

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  Liberty it

  Apr 2023 - now

  Senior Frontend Engineer in the Solaria Innovation Department working on multiple projects- Founded and ran a Frontend Guild, fostering a collaborative environment for knowledge sharing, skill development and promotion of frontend engineering standards across the whole engineering organization.- Founding member of the Able Erg (Disability Awareness), achieving a milestone of 100 members within the initial three months, setting a solid foundation for continued success. - Lead Frontend Engineer on the Simplify project, taking charge of designing Frontend Architecture and providing technical leadership. Additionally, I actively mentored fellow engineers within the team through pair programming and code reviews, imparting expertise in React, Javascript and GraphQl to enhance their skill sets.- Lead Frontend Engineer on the team for a short 3-month feature enhancement using Angular and Java Spring Boot API- Gained Full-Stack experience across several projects with Relational Databases, Luiqibase, NestJS- Acted as the HPE Lead (High-Performance Engineering) on my team driving good engineering practices ex. Testing. Show less

  • Principal Software Engineer

    May 2024 - now

  • Senior Software Engineer (Frontend)

    Apr 2023 - now