Working 100% remotely as part of a high-performance mobile team to deliver the FreeAgent app that is backed by NatWest, is delivered to over 100,000 customers and is currently rated 4.5⭑! The app uses the latest and greatest such as MVVM, Kotlin + Coroutines, Viewbinding, Jetpack Navigation and its own caching layer. As a staff software engineer on the mobile team I am responsible for:

• Resolving customer-facing issues, e.g. any breaking changes that affect the customer. Through Firebase Crashlytics we can see daily reports of any crashes that we may not have seen during the development and testing phase.
• Delivering the app end-to-end including uploading to the Play Store, e.g. I contribute to any releases we have.
• Making key high-level decisions including any architectural changes e.g. I was responsible for moving the app from an MVP architecture to an MVVM architecture. I was a key player in making sure our test suite was running and reporting accurate coverage, reducing tech debt by half in the first 3 months of joining.
• Bringing awareness to other teams issues that may impact the mobile team, e.g. the API team may make some change that will break the Android and iOS apps.
• Working in tandem with the iOS and others teams to ensure the app is kept in-sync with them all, e.g. for any new features, I must work with our product owners and the communications team to bring a new feature to market.
• Helping new developers with any problems they have with the app, e.g any new developer thats onboarded, I support them. I have wrote our own documentation pages to help learning about the codebase easier.
• Helped in interviewing candidates.

As a Mobile Developer at HSBC, I am in charge of all 26+ apps built by HSBC and its group members (which includes HSBC UK, HSBC UAE, First Direct and M&S Bank and loads of other apps).

• Within a year I quickly rose up the ranks and became code maintainer of all of the apps and several very critical internal libraries.
• Refactored all of the copy inside one module. Became the defacto go-to developer for internationalisation and Gradle module topics.
• Created documentation that improved productivity for the consumption of HSBC's global developer community.
• Recognised by management for outstanding contributions helping the whole of the global HSBC developer community.
• Led the charge against the most difficult problem in Android - we hit the 64K strings limit.

At Snapsales I built an app called Dscvr, which is a hyper-local real-time discounts app, freshly released to the app store. I was in charge of building the whole native Android app from scratch to bring it into feature parity with the iOS app. I had to wear many hats but primarily operated on the front end Android app. 3 months in, I advocated the use of Flutter. This allowed Snapsales to progress faster as Flutter works on both iOS and Android so there was less development time needed.

• Worked closely with Android technologies.
• More practice being part of a small but growing team.
• Advocated the use of various technologies so that we can get to market fast.
• Worked to business requirements.
• Worked with bluetooth technologies.
• Launched the app on the Play Store.

Founded a company specialising in solving social issues such as mental health and wellbeing. Terl stands for tech relief. The main developing Recordo, a mental health app.

Investing time into Recordo helped me understand that what users really wanted wasn't necessarily what I thought they wanted. For example, offline-sync is something I worked on for 6 months. But it was an added benefit that no one really cared about! Amongst things like technical architecting, schemas, devops, databases and user testing I learnt loads of new tech that made me a better generalist.

• Lazysodium, the cryptography library that powers Recordo, grew to be very popular with Blockchain projects and security based projects.

I've been doing some contract work on various projects. Sometimes advising charities on their digital strategy.

• Consulting and meeting clients on a one-to-one basis.
• Assisting and helping charities and small businesses decipher complex development contracts.
• Using remote tools like Slack and Google Meet to work.
• Creating high quality software.
• Giving up-to-date advice on modern tools to use.
• Refactoring and language advice.

Google were in Leeds to help SMEs with their digital presence. I was part of the first ever team of Garagers. A whole range of topics were discussed in each consultation session that lasted approximately 60 minutes. Everything from Google Analytics, Google Adwords, Google My Business and Social Media. Business owners would ask strategy and heavily contextual questions based on what their situation was.

• Representing Google being a public face for the global company.
• Dealing with the press and local news outlets.
• Talking to business owners at a high level.
• Tailored advice for each business on their website and social media.
• Resolving technical problems with Google products such as Analytics and AdWords.
• Mentoring people on Google My Business.
• In-depth understanding of Google PageRank.

I led the first ever Digital Garage on Tour. It was much like the above role but rather than businesses coming to the garage, we would meet businesses where they were situated.

• Representing Google professionally on-foot.
• Helping to organise, plan and stress-test the first ever On Tour programme.
• Led a team of 2 talking to small to medium businesses.
• Friendly and affable attitude was required.
• Positive and fast-thinking was required to talk to business owners who were often very busy.
• Gave critical feedback to Google who would use the data to feed into the next DGoT programme.

Worked as a part of a team that developed several mobile apps for the NHS (specifically GP surgeries) and Marks and Spencer. I was quickly given ownership of the two projects which were developed within 2 months altogether. The apps were deployed on the iOS App Store and the Google Play Store.

The M&S app called "Incidents" is still, to my knowledge, being used nationwide. The NHS app called "Intradoc 24/7" is now formalised as part of the Intradoc 24/7 suite of software. Although my contract officially ended in March 2015, I worked for PinBellCom during my university summer holidays and then was put on a zero hour contract in the hope that I would return to employment with PinBellCom. However, I did not return as university kept me busy.

• Developed and worked on several APIs which allowed communication between the AJAX apps and SQL servers.
• PHP, HTML and CSS were used for the backend and Ionic with AngularJS was used for the frontend.
• Learnt and used HTTP GET, POST and auth tokens.
• Undertook demos and presentations to M&S.

Mounted new desktop computers and removed old computers manually. Created images of Windows 7 Professional. The Windows 7 images had to be compatible with desktop and laptop machines. Then they were installed onto hundreds of computers manually. Fixed a range of computers around the school as some of them were in disrepair.

• Working as part of a team to un-mount and mount hundreds of computers from their bases several times over.
• Created a base image that was to be installed everywhere.
• Helped do all the manual work of carrying trolley loads of laptops and making sure they all worked.
• Massive patience was involved in testing every laptop and computer.
• Listened to direct manager and worked to maintain a good IT presence for teachers and admin staff.

Did this alongside the above job. Organised and printed the school's work for teachers and administrators. Maintained and checked printers using networking software. Helped resolve common printing issues around the school. Did a lot of booklet, binding, laminating and holepunching work.

• Copied and printed the whole school's documents.
• Use of organisational skills to coordinate this undertaking.
• Timing was essential.
• Communicating as to how long a print would take was crucial.
• A good attitude to the job was required because of the large amount of teachers and students that were being served.

A hands on job role in which I travelled to and worked in many places such as London and York. This role required me to:

• Build servers from scratch; this included the physical building of the servers.
• It was expected that I had reasonable knowledge of the workings of computers.
• Install VMWare onto the servers.
• Check the integrity of wireless networks around schools using a diagnostic app.

As part of my high school work experience, I went to work in a chemist near my home town.

• Stocked shelves and monitored stock inside the chemist.
• Helped pharmacists with small tasks.
• Managed the till from time-to-time.
• Used the POS.

I am ashamed to admit I was a heavy gamer throughout high school. I did not fit in at school and so online gaming was my only mental break. Because I was playing so much and so often, I was given the prestigious opportunity to become a Trial Administrator in an online community called Marvelous Gaming. I then became a Moderator, which then turned into Head Administrator. Head Administrator meant that I had full control over the game servers, the systems, the forums and everything else.

With great power comes great responsibility. And boy was there responsibility. There were more than a thousand monthly players playing L4D2 on MG's servers which I had to monitor and manage - most of them older than me. I was to be level headed when handing out bans for griefing and racism. I was to be good at the game. I was to communicate effectively remotely with other admins. I also learnt how to code scripting plugins for the game. My parents had no hope for me in future as a result of my gaming. But it wasn't a negative for me, it was a positive. I learnt:

• People skills.
• How to communicate effectively remotely.
• Being mature.
• First steps in coding and scripting.
• Managing vBulletin and forum software.
• Installing SourceMod on servers.
• Creating server instances.
• Using SSH and linux commands.