Software Development

• Built the SNP’s 2026 election canvassing app — a Vue/Nuxt PWA, offline-first, deployed to thousands of canvassers across Scotland
• Published validation-enhancer, an open-source accessible form-validation web component — 55 stars, 32 forks, ~900 npm downloads
• Daily AI-first development since November 2025: agentic coding agents, four MCP servers, token budgeting, quality control of agent-written code

Vue / Nuxt / TypeScript / PWA / Pi Agent

• Lead UI developer: built the greenfield climate-risk platform end to end, directing an outsourced team in India
• Designed the PostgreSQL schema; integrated Auth0 with custom OAuth2 and JWT verification
• Built the GIS matching pipeline joining climate risks, carbon intensities and electricity prices to cloud regions

React / TypeScript / Python / FastAPI / PostgreSQL / Snowflake / Auth0 / GIS

• First developer after two failed vendor attempts; architected a 250+-page customer-facing grid-connections portal with sole technical responsibility
• Chose Astro; wrote all the TypeScript types; built most of the database and API
• Built the design system from scratch — design tokens, fluid typography, semantic colour palette
• HTML-first form validation web component (under 1KB) worked without JavaScript on decade-old phones, removing compliance risk for a regulated utility
• Journey completions doubled in the first fortnight after launch and held; page payload cut from 6MB+ to ~400KB; won Waracle a three-year, multi-million-pound partnership

Astro / TypeScript / Web Components / CSS / design tokens / REST

• Rebuilt the public website and mailing list on Ghost

Ghost

• Solo developer: designed and delivered an internal system for managing dynamic game configuration data, with TypeScript types generated from the C# backend

React / TypeScript / MUI / Vite / MobX / C#

• Truffle Pig IT support and development; admin for Doune the Rabbit Hole festival

Ghost / FreeAgent / CRM

• Full stack on customer-facing energy apps in a family of ~5; core contributor to the React/Storybook component library; deployed via Terraform; set up GCP IAM permissions
• Built the virus-scanning feature end to end, including the async interface for serving clean-file links

React / TypeScript / Storybook / GraphQL / Cypress / Jest / Docker / GCP / Terraform

• IT support and development for Truffle Pig Consulting: website, CRM, email, FreeAgent payroll

Ghost / FreeAgent / CRM

• Rebuilt the lottery sales pipeline — 30% sales increase in the first month, measured by PPL’s own analytics teams
• Refactored the codebase and led upgrades cutting maintenance costs; co-owned Jenkins CI/CD; mentored junior developers

React / TypeScript / Gatsby / GraphQL / Cypress / Node.js / Jenkins

• Truffle Pig Consulting: rebuilt the website, set up FreeAgent accounting and CRM; InChat: refactored their JavaScript chatbot (pre-LLM)

HTML / CSS / JavaScript / FreeAgent / CRM

• Led development of the call-centre telephony module (full dialler, CTI screen-pop), used by every agent; contract extended 6 to 9 months
• Integrated the modern React dialler with BT’s legacy Java telephony stack over a custom inter-window messaging protocol

React / TypeScript / Jest / CSS

• WordPress development for Bella Caledonia; an Angular/Node/PostgreSQL app for Mugstock music charity

WordPress / Angular / Node.js / PostgreSQL

• Sole front-end developer in a four-person team; big-data visualisation of ~1 billion data points (half-hourly consumption, 3 years, 5,000+ sites) with pricing projections

React / React-vis / Redux / TypeScript / Cypress / REST

• In week one, built the donation widget at the centre of a £500,000 fundraising drive; later a Salesforce-integrated donations heatmap

Angular / TypeScript / Node.js / Express / PostgreSQL / Salesforce / Heroku / Java / REST

• Built the engineer scheduler end to end on the retail-repairs system serving Asda and Walmart
• Mentored two junior developers; one graduated to mid-level during my tenure

TypeScript / Angular / C# / Web API / LINQ / SQL Server

• Remote from Glasgow; owned the full stack of the events features of VMware’s education product — VMworld web apps used by thousands, three data centres
• One of two UI developers on EVO:RAIL (hyper-converged infrastructure): migrated the UI from Backbone to Angular; built licensing and hardware replacement; first units sold

JavaScript / Groovy / Grails / Angular / Node.js / MySQL / WebSockets / CSS

• Senior UX Developer, Buildabrand (remote, 2011–12): rebuilt the entire front end in four months; managed a small remote dev team
• Application Developer, Sabio (2008–10): UI lead on the Student Loans Company call-centre rebuild; ran its first usability testing programme; softphone dialler
• Web Marketing Officer, Mercy Corps Scotland (2007–08): sole web developer; doubled site traffic in six months. Earlier: co-founder, freelance, PC technician

PHP / MySQL / JavaScript / jQuery / Java / XSLT / HTML5 / CSS3