Software Engineer at Air Publishing Limited

Skills: MySQL · B2B Software · Next.js · React.js · PHP

Air Publishing Limited

Senior Software Engineer

Software Engineer

● Malware located and removed to reinstate usability of the client’s website. Allowing traffic to access as normal and preventing emails from being labeled as spam.
● Enabled white-labelling of website to allow multiple companies to reuse the same codebase.
● Implemented an automated payment system for ski instructors based on completed lessons.

Freelance

Freelance Web Developer

● Bolster productivity and increased feature turnover rate by 20% by implementing and managing an Agile workflow, resulting in a more efficient timetable for project planning, development, and deployment.

● Converted over 1,000 new users in less than two months by implementing, and deploying our most successful campaign.

● Introduced test-driven development, improving code reliability and increasing team confidence while shipping new functionality.

● Improved the overall user experience by integrating error tracking software, BugSnag, and tackling new exceptions as a matter of urgency.

● Decreased deployment time from 20 minutes to 3 minutes with continuous integration and automated deploys.

● Expertly maintained the production and staging server environments, as well as administered the MySQL database.

● Provided support with other responsibilities including Amazon Web Services, specifically Route53 and S3, Mandrill and MailChimp, CodeShip, and BugSnag.

Chainy

Lead Developer

● Created a tailored dashboard tool, utilising external APIs such as Google Analytics, Facebook, Twitter, and Doubleclick for Advertisers, which allowed the design of a responsive, real-time interface using modern languages and libraries.

● Implemented analytical monitoring of user interactions on client websites and mobile applications using tag management solutions Google Tag Manager and Signal (formerly Brighttag).

● Pioneered site-wide JavaScript error monitoring, using Google Analytics; providing developers with data concerning the user's  journey up to the point of the error and after.

● Improved tracking to identify users across multiple devices.

● Performed form-based tracking to determine how far guests reach, before leaving said forms, ultimately improving users' experience and increasing conversion rates.

● Engineered a service that collected data from two separate sources, allowing advertisers to produce more precise consumer profiles while retargeting advertisements; increasing the advertisement's effectiveness.

● Implemented time-based conversion tracking to measure the ROI from a live web stream of a client's fashion show.

Dentsu Aegis Network

Web Analytics Developer

While freelancing I gained several interesting projects through a company that outsourced client work ranging from automobile trading sites to client invoice management systems. These arrangements usually needed to be completed within tight deadlines which were both challenging and rewarding.
I also had a few personal clients that allowed me to get hands-on with client relations and gain some valuable experiences. This has helped to see how development should be client-driven and not based on assumptions about needs and requirements.

Brayniverse

Web Designer And Developer

● Produced a minimum viable product in the form of a cloud-based human resources management system to help improve employee performance by monitoring their skills, training and time management.

● Granted the ability for Employee Self Service for entering timesheets and viewing training course availability.

● Established ability for administrators to produce rotas and be notified when employees missed their timesheets, did more hours than contracted or were missing important documents.

● Developed the product using the PHP framework CodeIgniter with MySQL as the data storage solution.

● Designed the interface using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript to provide a smooth and intuitive user experience.

● Provided seamless interaction between pages using a bespoke AJAX driven framework.

Christopher L Bray