Front End Developer

End client: British Airways

Leading development and technical direction of migrating ba.com's selling flow from AngularJS to the current version of Angular 9 in a SCRUM environment.



Responsible for:
- Working with stakeholders to establish the best path for migration.
- Implementation of state management using NgRx.
- Supporting junior developers in the team; Getting them up-to-speed with the new Angular, TypeScript, and the migration approach.
- Laying out best practice and documentation so that other teams can follow the migration approach.
- Development and maintenance of BA’s design system using StencilJS to maintain and execute a central tool for all Product development teams to utilise.
- Reviewing and optimising the current platform usage from key metrics and rectifying the issues proactively.
- Using tools such as Jira, Figma and Teams to collaborate and engage with.

Development of platforms with user-facing features to support employee engagement throughout the entire business.

Part of a remote-working, agile team with colleagues from all over the world.

The platforms were developed using AngularJS and then upgraded to use React and Typescript.

Responsible for:

- Turning UI/UX designs into prototypes for stakeholders to review.
- Working with service engineers to integrate RESTful APIs.
- Working remotely, using tools such as Trello, Invision and Slack to communicate in an asynchronous environment.
- Use of Git for source control, managing feature branches and reviewing code.

Converting designs into HTML emails/newsletters and responsive landing pages for high profile clients such as Microsoft and VMWare.

The main technologies used were: HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, Bootstrap.

Developing responsive landing pages for major brands on tesco.com and associated websites.

The main technologies used were: XML, HTML(5), CSS(3), JavaScript, jQuery, YUI.

The main responsibility was the full development of CMS managed websites. This included both the back-end and front-end development (and occasionally design work as well). The websites were managed by the company’s bespoke CMS solution which was built on top of a Python framework known as Pylons.

The back-end responsibilities included the development of the MySQL tables, and the implementation of the business logic in the controllers. An MVC approach was used here.

The front-end development consisted of templating using the Pylons templating language known as Mako, and the standard with HTML, CSS and JavaScript (jQuery).

Some of my other important responsibilities included; the extending of their bespoke CMS, the implementation of a reusable shopping cart platform, and the supporting and maintaining of spritely.net, a jQuery-based animation plugin.