Christopher Reid

A Vue.js-based widget that can easily be embedded to any automotive manufacturer's website and allow users to compare the ownership costs of electric vehicles (EV) against internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles taking into account finance loan costs (with interest), servicing, tires, fuel or electricity, and taxes.

The data is presented to users in tabular form, with a graph modal to show costs over the period of ownership.

The back end is written in Laravel and utilizes APIs to third-party finance interest calculators.

A major high street bank asked us to build an online portal advertising used cars, vans, and motorcycles offered for sale to the public. There is a search facility where users can search by monthly budget, cash price, and also filter on body types, fuel types, and other features.

Users can contact auto dealers via the portal and arrange a test drive. After purchase, users can claim a cash reward that generates an invoice to the dealer.

I oversaw the search development, which utilized Elasticsearch and external APIs to filter vehicles that fit within the user's finance parameters.

I built the first version of the back-end API dealing with all aspects of sports betting, including gambling-aware checks (GAMSTOP), ID checking, Worldpay integration for payments and payouts, user wallets, a "take a break" feature, betting limits, and multiple game types.

I integrated with Opta Sports for the sports results, updating the UI in real-time as goals were scored and other in-game events occurred. The game handled soccer, rugby, NFL, snooker, darts, MMA, and boxing.

The back end had full unit and feature test coverage and was deployed to AWS using Ansible and Jenkins with a full CI/CD pipeline running the test suite. In addition, an admin panel was built using Next.js and React with a visual graph-rich stats and KPIs dashboard.