James Freeman
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Versatile software engineer with over 15 years of experience solving problems and building solutions
Work Experience
- Built out AI LLM (Gemini) integrated features, focused on summarising reports and analytics
- Created architecture and solution documents for development roadmaps
- Prototyped MVPs and built pitch decks to drive C-suite buy-in
- Incrementally modernised legacy systems, to reduce technical debt
- Oversaw efficiency and cost saving projects, to reduce unnecessary expendature
- Worked closely with clients to develop applications and services to fulfil their needs
- Improved developer tooling, increasing effienciency, and reducing unreliable tests and CI services
- Built multiple video streaming clients, including an Apple TV App of The Year winning application (Univision)
- Mentored junior developers and provided guidance on systems development
- Rapidly prototyped MVPs for product feasibility assessments
- Oversaw an in-office and distributed team of developers
- Introduced automated tools and processes to speed up development work
- Transitioned legacy codebases to modern and updated frameworks
- Set up system documentation to help with onboarding and setting up third party integrations
- Created and implemented code guidelines and testing plans, to maintain software quality
- Made specifications based on product needs and third party API documentation
- Provided work estimates and technical planning for product managers
- Interfaced with clients to provide technical solutions to proposed problems
- Oversaw a distributed team, and made sure junior members had the support and guidance needed
- Designed and implemented a fully tested GraphQL API layer
- Had a major role in developing and maintaining a drag and drop email designer, one of the most sophisticated WYSIWYG designers on the market
- Worked in the campaigns team, responsible for handling sending of millions of emails per year
- Developed attributions pipelines, to help users better understand where contacts and conversions have come from
- Created a report indexing system, in C#, that automatically pulled daily reports from client systems and aggregated the data
- Designed and implemented a bulk editing tool, that allowed complex mass changes to be made to multiple campaigns in a fraction of the time required to do it manually
- Developed a tool that would automatically disassemble flash files into bytecode, and then perform inspections to verify the existence of functional click tags
- Created landing pages
- Built custom reporting solutions, pulling data from multiple systems
- Automated and streamlined manual tasks
Skills
Frameworks
- React, React Native, Svelte
- Express, Vite, Symfony, Laravel
- EmberJS, Recoil, Redux, Vue.js
Languages
- Javascript, Typescript
- PHP, Python, Ruby
- Bash, SQL
Data Stores
- MySQL, PostgreSQL
- MongoDB, DynamoDB
- Memcached, Redis
Markup
- JSX, HTML5, CSS, SASS
- Smarty, Twig, Blade
Testing
- Vitest, Jest, Behat
- PHPUnit, Cucumber, Gherkin
- CircleCI, Mocha
Misc
- LLMs, Gemini
- webOS, CI, jQuery, GIT, SEO
- Web Scraping, LAMP, Nginx
- AWS, Twilio, RESTful APIs
- Job Queues: Gearman, RabbitMQ, SQS