Full-stack Developer in Leeds, United Kingdom

The Improve Your Accent online course is the digital syllabus from 2017 Freelancer of the Year winner Luke Nicholson.
I built all the technology for the course, including a sophisticated backend that allows Luke to add and edit content. Because this is a specialized subject, the course could not be built with off-the-shelf e‑learning technology, and it features:
• A progressive web app experience, where the frontend is loaded into the user's device and feels "native"
• Integration with Braintree for payments and subscriptions
• IPA transcriptions that can be turned on or off
• Integrated audio players with speed controls
• Integrated video players
• Various different types of guessing games
• Click-for-audio vowel and consonant charts
• Integration with Demio for live classes
• User bookmarks and progress recording
The course launched in March 2020 and has already been a great success with several paying customers.

Noiiz is a Leeds startup that is revolutionizing the world of music production by providing access to a vast catalogue of sounds and presets for a single subscription price. It's been featured in Music Tech Magazine, Sound On Sound, and more and has thousands of regular users.
I've been working with Noiiz since the very beginning, bootstrapping their technology with the Rails web app that powers their main catalog. Now they have their own development team and a network of freelancers and I've been working closely with them to develop features and enhancements, and consulting on the best ways to scale the platform/training their CTO on tech skills.
Some of the technical features I've introduced to Noiiz include:
• A search and filtering engine for the catalog featuring PostgreSQL tsvector technology
• Deep integration with Stripe for recurring payments
• Quota management for users on different subscription plans
• An in-browser audio player with the waveform display
• Administration interface with spreadsheet upload functionality for adding new sounds to the catalog
• A jobs worker that handles the background processing of sound metadata

Care View is a project developed by the Urban Sustainable Development Lab, where I worked as a full-stack developer.

This Rails-based app allows citizens to report instances of neglect in the built environment, which are aggregated together into a heatmap. The intention is to help frontline services identify socially isolated citizens, testing a hypothesis that these two things are connected.

Care View is a progressive web app with a light touch interface—once a user is logged in, they can use geolocation to record their concern with a single tap. The project was launched as a pilot in three cities and has received multiple awards, including funding from the NHS of England and a six-figure grant from the European Space Agency.

Commscanner is online software that helps you deliver, track and analyse all your online and offline communications effectively. It provides a single integrated dashboard for tracking which of your communication channels are having the biggest impact by providing customized URLs and QR codes for each channel.
I built all the technology for Commscanner, working closely with the concept's inventor.