Barney Vaughan

Experience

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  Brandies Digital

  Apr 2010 - Oct 2023

  Founder

  Working through referrals and finding work on online to build a portfolio of Websites in college I felt it necessary to find out what working for myself would be like and this has continued to grow into Brandies. With over ten years of Wordpress & SAAS Engineering knowledge, I've worked with hundreds of clients in varying degrees of Web Development to provide a quality service.

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  The Walls Restaurant

  Dec 2010 - Jul 2011

  Waiter
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  Sainsbury's

  Jul 2012 - Aug 2013

  Checkout Staff
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  Cyberfrog Design Ltd

  Jan 2015 - Sept 2019

  Web Developer

  Building and developing both front end and back end web applications for clients. This includes using pre-existing CMS solutions or building bespoke systems to achieve the perfect results. Focussing primarily on Wordpress & MVC Frameworks, Cyberfrog Design allowed me to channel my freelance work into something more sustainable and allowed me to really focus on how to produce good work across varied requirements.

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  Milexa Group

  Feb 2019 - Nov 2021

  Joined Milexa looking for growth inside a medium business, this role was fast moving working on 2 large Wordpress based Monoliths across a distributed cloud system. This role involved building both software and infrastructure, working on bespoke products for the Milexa Group umbrella sites but also working on Docker optimisation and customised REST API Integrations with Third Parties such as Xero & Made.com.This was a role that very much leant into working across all departments the company with varying departments, including very closely with the design teams to ensure the frontend was fit for our brand. Show less

  • Technical Lead

    Aug 2019 - Nov 2021

  • Senior PHP Developer

    Feb 2019 - Sept 2019
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  Gear4music Ltd.

  Nov 2021 - Oct 2023

  As an Engineering Lead my focus split has been around 50/50 (engineering/people). Directing traffic and ensuring the work that comes into our squad with my Product managers, & System Engineers aligned to business goals. I've led a multi-disciplinary teams to deliver 2 high profile projects whilst at G4M among other achievements. The day to day was breaking down project work into smaller chunks for our engineers to accessibly work on them within sprints alongside ensuring my squad is working to the highest potential and finding ways on a 1-2-1 level to make sure this is achieved for the squad engineers. Show less

  • Engineering Lead

    Apr 2022 - Oct 2023

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Nov 2021 - Apr 2022
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  TagLab UK

  Feb 2023 - now

  Technical Founder

  A hobby project that turned into something bigger!Building & maintaining the website & CAD software for an online e-commerce platform. This involves automating customised purchasing pipelines for the products in the catalogue via Laravel into Dockerised 3D OpenSCAD. The files that are produced are then used within 3D Print software to output the physical products.The platform integrates with Instagram for marketing, MakerWorld for exposure & Etsy for B2C sales.

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  Slinger

  Aug 2023 - now

  Head of Engineering / Fractional CTO

  Leading the charge on building the next step in hospitality hiring. Role involves developing the infrastructure & product. Alongside this my day to day managing the engineering, planning & implementing the infrastructure and most importantly handling development process of our scaleable product on GCP to meet our stakeholder and board requirements!Heavily backend focussed - PHP Laravel REST API. Fronted by a Typescript/React Application & React Native App.