Hey, I'm Shaq.

1. 03/2023 → now
   Senior Full Stack Developer (contract) Oak National Academy · London

   • Built a lesson ingestion process that manages locking and permissions on Google Docs files and exports them in multiple formats to GCP storage buckets.
   • Integrated Sanity CMS to manage and host frontend images.
   • Automated video processing, integrating a third-party captioning service with externally hosted content.
   • Built an asset transfer workflow so files uploaded to the DAM are mirrored in GCP buckets.
   • Designed a quiz generation system: quizzes built from JSON, rendered by a web app with automated snapshot validation.
   • Engineered the curriculum database schema covering subjects, programmes, units, lessons and exam boards.

   • Next.js
   • TypeScript
   • GCP
   • Firebase
   • Sanity
   • Event-driven
2. 08/2020 → 10/2022
   Full Stack Developer Focusrite · London

   • Developed and maintained several web apps, integrating Contentful so the marketing team could manage content.
   • Optimised AWS infrastructure across API Gateway, DynamoDB, Lambda and ElastiCache.
   • Built a Rust-based DRM system to distribute software securely.
   • Improved CI/CD pipelines, cutting deployment time by 50%.
   • Created monitoring with AWS X-Ray, CloudWatch and Slack alerts to track system health.

   • TypeScript
   • Rust
   • AWS
   • Terraform
   • Gatsby
   • React
   • PostgreSQL
   • Koa
   • CircleCI
3. 05/2020 → 11/2020
   Full Stack Developer (contract) Oak National Academy · London

   • Led the move from WordPress to Next.js, improving performance and maintainability.
   • Improved SEO and search visibility using Google Search Console.
   • Kept the platform available for 4 million active users with minimal downtime.

   • Next.js
   • React
   • GCP
   • Cloudflare
4. 12/2018 → 05/2020
   Full Stack Developer & Tutor Northcoders · Manchester

   • Designed and built a CRM for tracking student progress with automated feedback loops.
   • Automated progress tracking, reducing manual work by 25%.
   • Mentored and trained students in full stack development.

   • React
   • Node.js
   • Express
   • PostgreSQL
   • TravisCI

Selected things I've built. Ask me about any of them.

• Focusrite

  Software DRM in Rust

  A Rust-based DRM system for distributing software securely to customers.

  • Rust
  • AWS
• Oak National Academy

  Quiz generator

  Quizzes generated from JSON and rendered by a web app, with automated snapshot validation to catch regressions.

  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • Snapshot tests
• Oak National Academy

  Lesson ingestion pipeline

  Pulls lessons from Google Docs, manages file locking and permissions, and exports each lesson in several formats to GCP storage.

  • GCP
  • Google Docs API
  • Event-driven
• Oak National Academy

  WordPress → Next.js

  Led the migration to Next.js during lockdown, keeping the site up for 4 million active users.

  • Next.js
  • Cloudflare
  • SEO

Frontend

• React
• Next.js
• Gatsby
• TypeScript
• JavaScript

Backend

• Node.js
• Rust
• API design
• Event-driven architecture

Cloud

• AWS Lambda
• DynamoDB
• API Gateway
• EC2
• GCP Cloud Functions
• Firebase
• Terraform

Content

• Sanity
• Contentful
• Headless CMS
• Content automation

Auth

• OAuth
• JWT
• SSO

CI/CD

• GitHub Actions
• CircleCI
• Cloudflare
• Vercel

Performance

• Core Web Vitals
• CDN strategy
• Caching