CV: Matt Calthrop

Worked with several teams migrating legacy M&S sites to a new NextJS platform.

Implemented design and content personalisation with A/B testing using Optimizely.

Worked on the core platform itself: Nx monorepo & pipeline maintenance, performance optimisation.

Architected and built an Nx app for handling M&S payments.

Implemented components according to design system defined in Figma, with design token integration.

Building a digital asset management platform using React, TypeScript and GraphQL client & server, with components implemented according to design system defined in Figma.

Fully remote, mentoring other developers, defining and implementing codebase standards and documentation.

Built a Rust API for dynamic resizing of images stored in S3, including comprehensive unit and integration tests.

Building a cloud-based healthcare web application for emerging markets.

Full-stack web development for City Pantry's order delivery monitoring tool: Angular 8 front end using APIs written with NodeJS, Express, TypeScript and Inversify.

Contributing to architecture decisions, and mentoring junior developers in best practice approaches to development and testing.

Migrating multiple SPAs (Angular and React) from deployment via OpenShift to Amazon CloudFront CDN. Requirements gathering, risk analysis, stakeholder engagement, API integration and implementation. Liaising with teams in UK, BG, Monaco, MY and USA.

Teaching web application development. Coaching and mentoring. Imparting what I've learned over the last 25 years. Preparing students for software development in the real world.

Building a greenfield Angular application. Requirements gathering and consolidation. Automated unit, component and e2e testing.

On-site and remote (UK, Monaco, Bulgaria) teaching and mentoring of Angular, web components, and coding best practices.

Writing and delivering course material for the 8-week launchpad of Ada's Apprenticeship programme for two Open University-approved modules: Software Development Lifecycle (focusing on Agile methodologies) and Testing (focusing on automation and CI).

Training STEM university graduates in the fundamentals of web development, equipping them for employment as consultants for Sparta Global.

Enhanced curriculum to include ES6, Angular testing and API testing.

Designed and implemented multi-environment (dev, test and prod) system architecture with CI pipeline for MEAN stack, with separate codebases for UI and API deployed in each environment.

Completed comprehensive suite of documentation for system architecture, coding conventions and system setup.

Instructor on General Assembly's 12-week Web Development Immersive course.

Updated the curriculum to include more testing and ES6 content and incorporated CI process.

Implemented several AngularJS/Twitter Bootstrap SPAs.

Wrote comprehensive Grunt and Gulp scripts for the build process, including JSHint, JSCS, LESS compilation, unit (Karma) and e2e (Protractor) testing.

Worked closely with API developers to define and agree REST API contracts.

Developed a service-mocking app in ExpressJS to allow stackless development.

Involved in daily client interaction, and presented weekly client updates.

Coordinated distributed teams in the US, UK, India and Australia to develop web application software for the new generation of LN products; developed as well.

Wrote a configurable static content server in NodeJS to allow independent HTML / JS / CSS development.

Redesigned JS architecture of panel-based interface.

Architected and implemented UI for a historical charting application for PureDeal, IG's web-based trading application.

Documented processes and APIs for knowledge centralisation and sharing.

Automated project compilation and routine tasks with Maven and Bash.

Implemented design of web application for a new section on Nike’s website.

Site included complex user interaction between various screen components, implemented in Javascript.

Available in more than 30 languages.

Developed the Proteus web application, which is used to manage metadata for all BBC Radio programs, with internal and external clients.

Converted old styling over to match new designs, and implemented new functionality.

Joined a team working on enhancing the usability of an in-house CMS.

Implemented wireframes for redesign of several business-critical sections of the CMS, with excellent user feedback.

Re-engineered the Javascript framework to use an event-driven design pattern.

Used static HTML prototypes to build a working Tesco Wine web application.

All pages used AJAX and DHTML, with standard HTML fallback for non-Javascript use.

Accessibility and usability; cross-browser testing.

Project manager, systems engineer, and website developer building websites for SMEs.

Managed LAMP stack hosting of all websites, including Bash script automation of website creation and backups.

Requirements analysis and specification, project management, hosting configuration, implementation and support.

Architected and developed a web-based content syndication platform.

Technical focal point for clients: phone calls, site visits and custom integration.

Solaris and Vignette StoryServer Sysadmin, and Oracle DBA.

Designed and developed an MIS for tracking usage of Reuters products.

Automated installation of Tivoli system monitoring using Bash.

Architected and developed an ecommerce permissioning system.

Architected hardware specification according to system data and processing requirements.

After completing my Computer Science degree, I joined the PW graduate training program.

Worked on several projects based in Sydney and Canberra.

Coordinated and developed changes to Department of Transport’s FMIS, and managed FMIS quality control and testing.