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 8 years experience in building high performance web applications and semantic web services.
  • Over 4 years experience working with cloud based infrastructure on multiple provider platforms.
  • Over 4 years experience in ground up system architecture and design and leading development teams to deliver both greenfield and brownfield projects.
  • Experience in e-commerce, 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
  • Blockchain
  • Productivity
  • Game Theory
  • Economics
  • Robotics
  • Music Production
  • Sound Engineering

Positions

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    Web Development Consultant

    Salmon

    Development on e-commerce platform used by well-known multinational brands. Updated development practices, including introducing unit testing and TDD to Salmon.

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    Founder & Full-Stack Developer

    Superwatermelon

    Founded Superwatermelon as a software company committed to the delivery of high-quality products. Involved in product design and responsible for technical delivery.

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    Principal Web Developer

    BBC

    Led the development of scalable systems used by millions daily across the BBC's online portfolio. Involved in the development of personalisation, customisation and social based services. Laid the architectural groundwork for the BBC's music streaming services.

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    Co-founder & Lead Developer

    Snatter Limited

    Developed a transactional platform backed by MySQL in Symfony PHP 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 PHP platform and web crawler / database for property listing, used social media services as a tool 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.

    • - Senior Web Developer
    • - Web Developer
    • Junior Web Designer / Developer
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