Gordon Murray Dent
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Gordon is a highly motivated, adaptable, and personable software engineer with team leading and management experience. A polyglot by trade, he has worked professionally with a number of languages and frameworks, specializing in JavaScript-related technologies. Gordon is always eager to embrace new challenges and brings a tried-and-true work ethic to every assignment.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
GitHub, Git, Bash, Sublime Text, Vagrant
The most amazing...
...thing I've done is co-found and serve as CTO for a web service with over 18,000 users.
Work Experience
Front-end Software Engineer
Tidepool
- Introduced a new testing suite to provide 90% coverage across React components and state management modules. Prior to this, there was no automated testing suite.
- Led the migration of state management from bespoke implementation to Redux while adhering to strong testing principles, which resulted in more modular and consistent source code which conforms to Redux patterns.
- Built UI components for powering the D3-heavy visual/interactive.
- Introduced BDD to the team at Tidepool and the use of Cucumber.js to integrate feature development with measurable ways of confirming feature completeness and sound functionality.
- Spearheaded the migration from Director-based routing to React Router.
CTO & Co-founder
Freelance Web Service
- Built the initial prototype and MVP (a basic RESTful API and single-page app).
- Created an updated RESTful API for powering the single-page app.
- Managed and architected server infrastructure using Ansible.
- Created an interactive visual component as an AngularJS directive powered by D3.js. It is a fully interactive radar plot that is used as a form of input and display on the site.
- Built an ORM for simplifying interactions with the persistance layer and adding a form of schema validation prior to inserts and updates.
Software Engineer
On Track Retail
- Created a microservice for validating issuance of train tickets for a national UK train ticketing service.
- Wrote a suite of tests for verifying correct behavior in line with requirements of the specification.
- Created a microservice for accounting the daily value of all tickets issued by machines in the train ticketing system.
- Worked with a team for adopting a Sprint workflow with ten-day cycles.
- Assisted in setting up RabbitMQ for decoupling various aspects of the system.
Software Engineer
BraveNewTalent
- Built a recommendation system for suggesting topics to follow for users of the website.
- Assisted in migrating from MySQL to PostgreSQL.
- Part of the team that migrated the platform from a PHP stack to a Python stack.
- Promoted to lead engineer in 2014 and helped hire development team in San Francisco when the company moved from London.
- Built an internal analytics platform for KPI tracking.
Experience
Freelance Web Service
Skills
Languages
JavaScript, ECMAScript (ES6), Scala, Bash, PHP, Python, Java
Frameworks
Redux, AngularJS
Libraries/APIs
Node.js, D3.js, React
Tools
Sublime Text 3, Gulp, Git, RabbitMQ, Shell, Ansible, Webpack, NGINX, Vagrant, Sublime Text, GitHub, Mocha
Paradigms
Agile Software Development, Functional Programming
Storage
RethinkDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis
Other
Front-end Development
Education
Master of Science Degree in Applied Artificial Intelligence
University of Exeter - Exeter, United Kingdom
Bachelor of Science Degree in Compuer Science
University of Exeter - Exeter, United Kingdom
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