Jake Noble

A bespoke web app used for click tracking using Symfony 3, PostgreSQL, Redis, Memcached, and much more.

The web app focused on the speed of reporting for one million clicks and fast redirect speeds of less than 50ms.

Housing Hand is a UK guarantor for international students wanting to rent student accommodation in the UK. Their website uses a step-by-step process to allow students to sign up and pay for Housing Hand to their guarantor.

I built the web application using Symfony with a custom front end.

I communicated with the client from start to finish about the project's deliverables and ensured those deliverables were met. I was also in charge of deploying the site, its servers, security, and backups.

The site also used DocuSign to allow students to sign their guarantor agreement with Housing Hand online. The DocuSign documents were personalized for each application.

Bespoke Symfony 2 project used for searching and managing hundreds of schools and their associated programs.

Main Symfony 2 application: http://www.blendedlearning.org/directory

Features include:
• User login
• User registration
• Profile updates (all via Ajax)
• Directory search, filters, and Google Maps (all via Ajax)
• Export directory searches to CSV
• Auto-generation of a timeline of changes for a school to maintain a record of their updates
• Admin features for searching and maintaining schools, users, programs, etc.

The site's root is in WordPress, done by a previous developer (http://www.blendedlearning.org/).

A Laravel web application that I took over from another developer. The site has several forms that store data and then send it to the client's CRM via an API using a custom XML format.

The project was not in a good state when I took it over. Working with the client and the CRM provider, we were able to fix the bugs and add several new features to streamline the capturing of their driver applications.

A local agency won the opportunity to tender for a large BBC project—features for the existing Cbeebies website. This involved two days of working on-site at the BBC's Media Centre in Salford and other companies developing their own ideas over the two days.

The agency I worked for was shortlisted to the last three and invited to take their idea (developed in those two days) through to a complete prototype, which would take several months.

I wrote the entirety of this project's back-end in Symfony 2, which enabled a child to watch a video or play a game on an iPad while a parent could observe them and "push" new content to the child on the iPad. This meant the parent was indirectly feeding the child content from their own device without directly interfering with the child's experience.