Stuart Wakefield

Technical leadership of a family of pods (delivery teams) within the detection domain. Helped grow the platform project team from three, two architects and myself, to a team of roughly fifty contract, permanent and nearshore. Applying pragmatic strategy to approach platform rebuild in Kotlin and React whilst releasing further customer value.

Front-end development of flagship business intelligence data insights tool in Node, Serverless & AWS Lambda, JavaScript, HTML5 & CSS3. Prototyping and OLAP database research. Integration of auth and data visualisation tools.

Greenfield development of a distributed quote, pricing and promotion service used across the UK estate both in-store and online. Architecture for streaming sale reconciliation data pipelines. Extensive devops for hybrid cloud and in-premises system design. High level of involvement in system security and site reliability. Tech primarily Java, Kafka Streams, Scala, and Go.

Part of the Equal Experts network of developers, working and consulting on client projects.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.