Gordon Murray Dent

San Francisco, CA, United States

Member since April 19, 2015

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.

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Portfolio

Tidepool
React, Redux, Node.js, Mocha
Workshape.io
AngularJS, Node.js, D3.js, RabbitMQ, RethinkDB, Nginx
On Track Retail
Scala, Java, Ansible, MySQL, RabbitMQ

Experience

JavaScript, 10 years
Python, 3 years
D3.js, 3 years
Node.js, 3 years
AngularJS, 3 years
RethinkDB, 2 years
React, 1 year

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Vagrant, Sublime Text, Bash, Git, Github

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...thing I've built is a hiring service for Developers and Tech companies. It is a novel new way to match people and opportunity together. It has 18,000+ users.

Employment

Front-end Software Engineer
Tidepool
2015 - PRESENT
- Introduced new testing suite to provide 90% coverage across React components and state management modules. Prior to this there was no automated testing suite.
- Main person responsible for migrating state management from bespoke implementation to Redux whilst adhering to strong testing principles. 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.
- Main person responsible for migrating from Director based routing to React Router.
Technologies: React, Redux, Node.js, Mocha
CTO & Co-founder
Workshape.io
2014 - PRESENT
- Built initial prototype and MVP (a basic RESTful API and Single Page Application).
- Created updated RESTful API for powering Single Page Application.
- 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.
Technologies: AngularJS, Node.js, D3.js, RabbitMQ, RethinkDB, Nginx
Software Engineer
On Track Retail
2014 - 2015
- Created a micro-service 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 specification.
- Created a micro-service for accounting daily value of all tickets issued by machines in the train ticketing system.
- Worked with a team 4 adopting a Sprint workflow with 10 day cycles.
- Assisted in setting up RabbitMQ for decoupling various aspects of the system.
Technologies: Scala, Java, Ansible, MySQL, RabbitMQ
Software Engineer
BraveNewTalent
2011 - 2014
- Built a recommendation system for suggesting topics to follow to 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 company moved from London.
- Built internal analytics platform for KPI tracking.
Technologies: Python, PHP, JavaScript, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL, Redis

Experience

NG-Dial (Development)
https://github.com/GordyD/ng-dial
An interactive dial directive for AngularJS.
ReQL Cli (Development)
https://github.com/Workshape/reql-cli
A ReQL Command Line Interface written in ES6.
Workshape.io (Development)
http://www.workshape.io
A talent matching service for developers. We built a platform to help developers seeking new opportunities find work based on how they want to spend their time.

Skills

Languages
JavaScript, ECMAScript (ES6), PHP, Java, Python
Frameworks
Redux, AngularJS
Libraries/APIs
Node.js, D3.js, React
Tools
Sublime Text 3, Webpack, Shell, Ansible, Gulp.js, RabbitMQ, Git
Paradigms
Agile Software Development, Functional Programming
Storage
RethinkDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL

Education

Master of Science degree in Applied Artificial Intelligence
University of Exeter - Exeter, United Kingdom
2006 - 2007
Bachelor of Science degree in Compuer Science
University of Exeter - Exeter, United Kingdom
2002 - 2005

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