Aston University

Senior Front-End / React / TypeScript / JavaScript Developer

* Team Lead with line management of several developers within the Player Features / UI team

DAZN

Team Lead Manager

Since 2004, The Sikher Project has pioneered innovative ways to help make the Sikh Scriptures accessible to diverse Sikh and non-Sikh communities around the world in a language they can understand and read.

Sikher is the first Sikh software project in history to adopt an open source, cross-platform & cloud-based philosophy and offering a database of 53 translations and 22 transliterations using custom built software (downloaded 17K+ times) and over the years, several projects have adopted Sikher’s open philosophy, database or code

The Sikher Project

Founder

* Working as part of the Playback team to deliver new features such as Continuous Play, Watch Party & DRM Management for the largest, fastest-growing global sports OTT streaming service live in over 200 countries and territories
* Leading the DRM Management feature, to help create better DRM resiliency
* Additional contributions: conversations with C-level executives around strategy, arranging a London-wide developer townhall, contributing to an automated testing system for ABR players & compiling/sharing knowledge about manifests (MPEG DASH, HLS, Smooth), ABR players (Shaka, AVPlayer), heuristics, DRM (Widevine, PlayReady, FairPlay) and MSE/EME browser/device shims

Senior Software Engineer

* Helping productionise a learning app for primary schools, helping children learn times tables
* TypeScript, React, redux, LESS & pixi.js (for interactive games) front-end connecting to a Go microservices architecture using Docker & Kubernetes deployed into Google Cloud (GCP)
* Defining appropriate Agile development, testing and go live strategies & processes

Sparx

Senior React / Front-End Consultant

Creating web-based payment solutions for UK's largest retail banking group across Lloyds, Halifax & Bank of Scotland brands, rolled out to 30M+ customers & in-branch colleagues in 1500+ branches
Security-first & heavily tested TypeScript, React, Redux web application integrated with a Spring Boot Java microservices backend. Tooling: Node.js, webpack, SCSS (BEM), Jest (unit tests), Cypress (integration tests), visual regression tests, Jenkins / UrbanCode (CI/CD)
Helping lead a front-end team & define best practices

Lloyds Banking Group

Team Lead React Developer

Working with a global beverages company to create a B2B website for content sharing with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) & Sightly, Vue.js, ES5/6, SCSS (BEM) & Jest (unit tests)
Tooling including Astrum (pattern library), Docker, webpack, yarn & GitLab
Helping lead a team & define best practices in front-end development

Wunderman Thompson Commerce

Lead Front-End / Vue.js Developer

Helping Adobe re-develop Centerparcs' accommodation booking website to improve the customer experience and increase the number of bookings, visited by over 2m customers annually
Tech includes Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) & Sightly, Adobe Target & Analytics, JavaScript ES5/6, SCSS, Jest (unit tests), yarn & Bitbucket
Integrating with RESTful backend services & Java servlets

Adobe

Senior Javascript Developer

B2B banking application for Commerzbank & KPMG developed in TypeScript, Angular, RxJS 5.x (ngrx), ngrx/store (similar to Redux) and SASS
Tooling including Angular CLI, npm & GitHub for source control
Integrated with a RESTful backend

Fathom

Angular & RxJS Developer

Developing a company performance dashboard for a Fortune 500 manufacturing company in React, Redux, D3.js & SASS for visualisation of data
Tooling including npm, webpack, yarn & Jasmine for unit tests
Integrated with a keen.io RESTful backend

AKQA

React / D3.JS Developer

For BT & TalkTalk, developing a set top box user interface in TypeScript/ES6, RxJS, Redux, PostCSS using reactive JavaScript, a microservices architecture & Jasmine for unit tests
Developed microservices for setup, settings, miniguide, guide & recordings screens as part of agile teams, whilst integrating with middleware & backend APIs
New interface launched to over 2.5m BT & TalkTalk customers

YouView TV Limited

Senior TypeScript / RxJS Developer

Developing high-availability HTML5 & SCSS TV apps & components for the TiVo platform using vanilla JavaScript
Tooling including npm, Grunt, Bower, Git, JIRA for stories/defects
Developed apps including V Festival, Cartoon Network, Pay Per Night & Tiddlers TV deployed to over 5 million customer

Virgin Media

Senior TiVo / JavaScript Developer

Complex tablet responsive web app created talking to BPM SOAP/XML web services powered by Oracle via a RESTful/JSON middle tier. Also developed a custom JavaScript framework called ai to help manage the complexity, used Bootstrap 3 for rapid prototyping, Bower for front-end package management and Git for version control

AIRAS INTERSOFT LIMITED

Javascript Developer

• Managing the maintenance and development of Mindvalley's core internal platforms and a team of 10+ programmers including various bespoke CMS, eCommerce & CRM platforms developed in Ruby on Rails and PHP
• Communicating with different parts of the business to understand their requirements and translating these into technical specifications & user stories
• Doing presentations to train the business to think more in technical terms
• Generating sustainable, long-term visions for each platform and best practices for development
• Agile sprint planning using PivotalTracker, JIRA & Basecamp

Mindvalley

Product Manager

• Increasing sales revenue by £4.7 million through user experience improvements
• Cross-browser and cross-device CSS, HTML, OO JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX and QUnit
• Server-side development in PHP, MySQL and Shell
• Web Services including Google Maps, Twitter, Facebook, JSON, JSONP, SOAP and REST
• Agile development methodology

Surfdome.com

Full Stack Engineer

• Developing websites and web applications using WordPress, HTML(5), CSS(3), OO JavaScript (Node, Angular, Backbone), jQuery, Web Services/APIs (JSON-RPC, RESTful), PHP and MySQL
• Managing entire project life-cycle from requirements specification to testing and review
• Conducting cross-browser and cross-device testing to maximise website accessibility
• Managing offshore development teams in UK, India, China and Eastern Europe
• Version control with SVN and GitHub

• Analysing large data sets using advanced Excel reports to determine the best search strategy for Fortune 500 clients including Santander, Sky, Lebara Mobile, easyJet and Nisbets
• Conducting comprehensive analysis of existing client websites and identifying opportunities for improvement in line with industry standards
• Creating regular progress reports & submitting them to end clients under often tight deadlines
• Creating recommendations reports & delivering progress presentations to clients

Jasdeep K.