Stuart Wakefield

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St. Albans, Hertfordshire, UK.

I'm the Company Director and a Full-Stack Developer / Software Engineer at Superwatermelon. Looking for ambitious teams wanting to develop cutting-edge web-based distributed systems.

Highlights

  • Over 3 years Scala experience, 4 years Kotlin experience, over 13 years Java experience and over 15 years experience in JavaScript. Committed to learning new technologies and languages.
  • Over 15 years experience in building high performance web applications and semantic web services.
  • Over 10 years experience working with cloud based infrastructure on multiple provider platforms.
  • Over 9 years experience in ground up system architecture and design and leading development teams to deliver both greenfield and brownfield projects.
  • Experience in e-commerce, retail, supply chains, media and legal industries working for well-known corporations.

Technologies

Methodology

  • BDD
  • TDD
  • Continuous Delivery
  • Agile
  • Kanban
  • Isomorphic Web Design
  • Accessibility Web Design
  • BEM

Interests

  • Web Tech
  • Open Data
  • Game Dev
  • 3D Graphics
  • Data Vis
  • Distributed Computing
  • AI
  • Machine Learning
  • Deep Learning
  • Mathematics
  • Productivity
  • Game Theory
  • Economics
  • Robotics
  • Music Production
  • Sound Engineering

Positions

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    Tech Principle

    Sedex

    Building a new technology platform to manage ethical supply chain risk and improvement.

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    Full-Stack Engineer

    Sedex

    Proof-of-concepts, scaffolding and development of new platform to manage ethical supply chain risk.

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    Java Engineer

    Tesco

    Working on a greenfield quote, pricing and promotion system for use across the entire Tesco estate, tills and online. Pair programming, BDD and TDD in Java, Groovy and Scala. Extensive devops with AWS, VPC and secure infrastructure design, Docker and ECS deployment platform.

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    Associate Developer

    Equal Experts

    Working with with Equal Experts team on Tesco project. Bringing development and agile expertise to the team. Providing guidance to effective use of BDD and sharing knowledge with permanent Tesco developers about secure AWS usage and providing advice to assist their Blue / Green immutable infrastructure approach.

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    Web Development Consultant

    Salmon

    Java, JavaScript & Node.js development on e-commerce platform used by well-known multinational brands. Updated development practices, introduced unit testing and TDD.

  • onward

    Founder & Full-Stack Developer

    Superwatermelon

    Product design, technical consultancy and development in Scala, Swift & Node.js using AWS and Docker Swarm deployment platform.

  • Principle Web Developer

    BBC Music

    Development of music services platform in Scala & Spray. Led the development of systems used by millions daily across the BBC's online portfolio. Laid architectural groundwork for BBC's music streaming services.

  • Service Owner

    BBC

    Development of personalisation and social based services in Scala & Java.

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    Senior Web Developer

    BBC

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    Co-founder & Lead Developer

    Snatter Limited

    Developed a transactional platform in PHP + MySQL from the ground up for small businesses to utilise word-of-mouth style marketing / recommendations on social media.

  • Co-founder & Lead Developer

    Propertwee Limited

    Developed a service based in PHP for property listing, using social media services to enable sellers to independently list their homes for sale.

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    Senior Web Developer

    Epoq Legal Limited

    Led the front-end development of a white label legal ecommerce service widely used by small to medium UK law firms. Developed web-based legal productivity system used globally.

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    Web Developer

    Epoq Legal Limited

  • Junior Web Designer & Developer

    Epoq Legal Limited