David Yates

Building and maintaining features for a high-volume e-commerce platform.

• Shipping to 40+ countries with localised, multi-currency storefronts.

Node.js, TypeScript, React, Docker

Delivering features on Spin to Win, a World Cup prediction product, picking up an in-flight codebase and shipping to hard, tight deadlines.

• Delivered against a fixed tournament deadline, with traffic peaking in the tens of thousands of concurrent users during match windows.

Node.js, TypeScript, React, Docker

Node engineer on CDP's environmental data platform, building and maintaining services that process corporate environmental disclosure data.

• Services processing environmental disclosures from around 25,000 companies, representing roughly two-thirds of global market capitalisation.

Node.js, TypeScript, Docker

Led a project to digitise multiple client-facing processes and integrate them into the Salesforce CRM.

• Digitised client-facing processes for a FTSE 100 platform serving over 1.8m retail investors and more than £150bn in assets under administration.

Node.js, Docker, PHP, Vite, Bash, React, React Context, Git, GitLab, JIRA

Delivered smaller-scale projects while mentoring junior developers, including a React Native app for PepsiCo and a GPT-enabled auto-marker for an education startup.

• Mentored three junior developers across both engagements.

Node.js, Docker, PHP, Go, Vite, Bash, React, React Native, Python, AWS, Git, GitLab, JIRA

Key member of the account team delivering features on new and existing projects, contributing to product and engineering planning alongside feature development.

• Delivered features on BBC products reaching an audience in the tens of millions.
• Worked within an account team of around eight, contributing to product and engineering planning alongside delivery.

Node.js, Docker, Jest, Bash, Optimizely, React, Redux, React Context, Git, GitHub, JIRA

Built a next-gen realtime analytics platform using Node.js microservices on Docker and Kubernetes, with emphasis on applications designed to run in air-gapped environments.

• Around 15 Node microservices on Docker and Kubernetes, designed to run in air-gapped environments.

Node.js, Docker, Kubernetes, Jest, TypeScript, Postgres, Bash, React, Redux, Java, React Native, Prometheus, Grafana, Git, GitLab, JIRA

Helped build a new team and maintain stateless Node.js microservices (RamdaJS, Fluture, Flow). Stabilised deployment pipelines on Jenkins and Kubernetes/OpenShift, and introduced new working practices to a growing team.

• Grew a new team to around seven engineers.
• Maintained roughly 12 stateless Node services supporting a customer base of over 20m.

Node.js, RamdaJS, Fluture, Flow, Domain Driven Design, Kibana, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Git, GitHub, JIRA

Re-platformed the Sky Casino Next.js implementation, enforced stricter standards, and brought the software up to date. Upgraded Node and PHP versions and carried out heavy DevOps work around Docker and Jenkins.

• Re-platformed the front end of Sky Casino, one of the UK's largest online casino products, serving a customer base in the millions.

Next.js, React, Apollo GraphQL, MySQL, Docker, Terraform, Jest, Cypress, PHP, Jenkins, Git, GitLab, JIRA

Front-end strategy for hundreds of micro-sites and a shared component library, plus the Live Maps offering of their telematics platform.

• Shared component library adopted across more than 200 micro-sites.

React, Python, AWS

Decoupled the front end from a legacy Magento stack as part of a digital transformation and e-commerce scale-up.

• Decoupled the front end from Magento during a scale-up period at one of the UK's largest fast-fashion e-tailers.

React, Magento, Kubernetes, GraphQL

Managed front-end and back-end development of customer support tools across complex insurance journeys.

C#, React, Node.js, SQL, RabbitMQ

Guided architecture and best practice on a white-label travel product (React over a C# microservices stack), including mentorship and hiring.

React, C#, Microservices

Built new insurance products with a Sitecore backend.

Angular, React, C#, SQL, Sitecore

Solved complex problems on an online trading platform.

React, Vue, Laravel, Python, Docker, Redis, WebSockets

Delivered a data-driven internal dashboard.

AngularJS, Laravel, MySQL, WebSockets

Built auditing software and owned the whole front-end process.

C# MVC, AngularJS, Breeze, Entity Framework

Bespoke e-commerce sites with custom CMS, plus client support.

PHP, Magento, WordPress, AngularJS

PHP, HTML, CSS and jQuery solutions for local clients, plus hardware and technical support.

PHP, HTML, CSS, jQuery