Hamish Webb
Verified Expert in Engineering
Full-stack Developer
Auckland, New Zealand
Toptal member since August 18, 2020
Hamish has provided digital solutions for some of the largest companies in New Zealand and served as the lead developer of an award-winning educational web app with over 50,000 downloads in its first year. Hamish works hard to understand his client's vision and prides himself in finding efficient and elegant solutions to produce remarkable customer experiences.
Portfolio
Experience
- JavaScript - 10 years
- Full-stack - 10 years
- TypeScript - 8 years
- Node.js - 8 years
- Dashboards - 8 years
- React - 7 years
- Next.js - 6 years
- D3.js - 6 years
Preferred Environment
MacOS, Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
The most amazing...
...thing I've made was a web app designed to help people learn the Māori language. It has had over 50,000 downloads, won awards, and has become a school staple.
Work Experience
Front-end Lead
Omnifi
- Directed a small team of developers for a startup company on a substantial codebase of approximately 100,000 lines.
- Utilized Three.js for visualization of products within customizable floor plans, enabling users to have confidence that they were purchasing exactly what they needed.
- Built an interactive D3.js dashboard for real-time network monitoring.
- Integrated single sign-on (SSO) across company subdomains using multiple OAuth providers, reducing login friction and improving cross-platform user experience.
- Built comprehensive end-to-end (E2E) tests using Cypress, ensuring pixel-perfect visual alignment prior to code merges.
Senior Full-stack Developer
Omnifi Inc.
- Created user authentication with multiple OAuth providers, user invites for admins, and account management pages.
- Added new functionality to a Photoshop-style UI that used three.js and R3F.
- Created performance improvements by refactoring React components, analyzing memory leaks from three.js, and restructuring parts of the codebase.
- Fixed outstanding bugs across all major browsers and devices.
Senior Full-stack Developer
mParticle
- Converted a React site to Gatsby for performance and SEO improvements.
- Changed a Prismic CMS content-delivery method from a REST API to GraphQL to more easily render static content in Gatsby.
- Made performance updates to the site via code splitting and refactoring large blocks of repeated code.
Senior Full-stack Developer
Calm
- Set up A/B tests for a new concept the company was trialing.
- Created a method for monthly subscriptions with a 7-day free trial via the Shopify API.
- Connected existing Calm members eligible for other benefits via a partner program to new healthcare services.
- Sent out automated emails and calendar scheduling via a cron job, as webhooks were still in development for the API we relied on.
Full-stack Developer
Designworks
- Led the development of an award-winning web app with 50,000+ downloads of user-generated educational posters and an average session time of four minutes across 100,000+ users.
- Implemented Redux to handle states between many components of an interactive journey.
- Refactored a company site from React class-based components, using jQuery to a more performance-focused ES2018 Gatsby static site with functional components and React hooks.
- Worked closely with top-notch designers and UX (user experience) experts.
- Generated custom JPG images from user-input data to be shared for a social media campaign and PDFs to sell print-ready custom posters on Shopify.
- Created interactive SVG animations to showcase the characters and weights of a new typeface.
- Created a live data visualization dashboard for a bank's partner center, which connected many APIs: weather (OpenWeatherMap), forex (Open Exchange Rates), stocks (Alpha Vantage), and traffic updates (via Twitter).
- Used facial recognition and Three.js (WebGL) to transform visitors' headshots into a moving, psychedelic, 3D collage of them as they enter a bank's waiting room.
- Used Mapbox to create custom map icons, overlay styles, and animations for an interactive journey.
- Migrated the company site's CMS from Craft to Sanity.io, leveraging Sanity's CLI for speedy content migration.
Front-end Developer
Union Digital (now AKQA)
- Planned, created, tested, and prototyped modules (mostly animation based).
- Helped add mobile-first 360º videos for a public aquarium's new launch.
- Implemented an email marketing campaign with custom templates for our clients to choose from.
Experience
Pepeha
https://pepeha.nz/create-pepehaThe web app was designed to help novices to the language of Te Reo gradually learn their Pepeha through an interactive journey. After completing the journey, the information the user gives is used to create a personalized Pepeha for them, which they can download for free as a JPG or buy as a printed poster. A custom font was created exclusively for the Pepeha Project, and an algorithm was made to ensure that the formatting of each poster was picture-perfect no matter what the user added.
I was the lead developer of the project.
It was awarded a purple, gold, and silver pin at the Best Awards:
https://bestawards.co.nz/toitanga/toitanga/designworks-1/pepeha-2
Designworks
https://web.archive.org/web/20220307194652/https://designworks.com/• Implemented dynamic SEO for each page generated from CMS content (Sanity.io).
• Ensured that the assets were appropriately resized for screen size/pixel density while still being high quality for the typical client of this company.
• Implemented progressive image loading.
• Refactored from React class-based components, using Query to a more performance-focused ES2018 Gatsby static site with functional components.
• Added Jest tests in the most crucial areas.
• Developed page-transition animations.
mParticle
https://www.mparticle.com/I converted the React site to GatsbyJS and changed the Prismic CMS content-delivery method from REST API to GraphQL to more easily render static content in Gatsby. I also made performance updates to the site via code splitting and refactoring large blocks of repeated code.
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, D3.js, Three.js, Node.js, React Redux, REST APIs, Moment.js, Shopify API, TensorFlow, jQuery, WebGL, Socket.IO, Stripe API, Tizen Wearable, Stripe, Calendly API
Tools
Firebase Authentication, Canvas, GitHub, Webpack, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, CircleCI, Mongoose, Git, Gulp, Cron
Languages
JavaScript, CSS, Sass, SCSS, HTML, CSS3, GraphQL, TypeScript, HTML5, SQL, PHP, Python
Frameworks
React Native, Redux, Jest, Express.js, Material UI, Next.js, Angular, Cypress, AngularJS, Svelte, Sapper, Electron, OAuth 2
Paradigms
Test-driven Development (TDD), Functional Programming, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), E2E Testing, HIPAA Compliance
Platforms
Firebase, Netlify, Mobile, GreenSock Animation Platform (GSAP), Vercel, Shopify, Arduino, Heroku, Tizen, MacOS, WordPress, Contentful, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Sanity Studio, Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
Storage
Firebase Realtime Database, JSON, MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, NoSQL, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3 (AWS S3)
Other
Full-stack, SVG, Web Animation, Front-end, Responsive Web Apps, Website Performance, Full-stack Development, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), Enzyme, Google SEO, ES2018/ES9, CSS Grid, TSLint, Axios, Web App UX, MERN Stack, Animation, Gatsby, React Hooks, SEO Tools, Data Visualization, APIs, Single-page Applications (SPAs), Dashboards, Authentication, ESLint, WebSockets, Apollo, Progressive Web Applications (PWAs), A/B Testing, Prismic, Wearable Technology, Responsive UI, Single Sign-on (SSO), Squarespace
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