Waterwhip Labs

• Served as an interim consultant for companies including Google, MMT Digital, BP, Coats, XCAD
Network & many more building & deploying a range of consumer facing desktop/mobile web apps
as a software engineer.

• Launched 7+ web apps with a large range of FE & BE technologies from React, NextJS, Jest,
Cypress, React Testing Library, Playwright, Solidity, NodeJS, Express & Scala on various projects.

• Building a number of infra pipelines automating e2e tests with CI/CD tools including Concourse &
Github Actions to managing project deployments on Google Cloud Platform, Azure & Vercel.

Senior Software Engineer

Rand

Building out their v2 rebrand of everything related to randgallery, from their NFT market place to their plethora of creator tools on the Algorand blockchain network

XCAD Network

Helped XCAD Network launch their influencer fan-token service. Allowed fans of influencers to sell fan tokens to their audience which grants them exclusive access to their content. Built the site and additional web3 / crypto integration features. 

React, web3.js / ethers.js integrating EVM & Zilliqa based blockchains & smart contracts to the frontend.

Frontend / Blockchain Engineer (Contract)

Coats

Contracted as a Software Developer using:  Next.js, GraphQL, Kotlin, Figma, gRPC & Concourse. 

Helped to develop the D3 project allowing manufacturers to make large factory orders for textile supplies through Coats ordering platform

Software Developer (Contract)

MMT Digital

Contracted as a Frontend Developer using: React, Redux, Storybook, Node, Express & JavaScript.

Delivering various web applications for large clients such as BP (British Petroleum)

Frontend Developer (Contract)

Google

Contracted as a Frontend Developer using: NextJS, Framer Motion, Storybook.

Worked on a Google commissioned research site into ethnic minority founders in the tech start-up scene in London. Led by 10x10VC. Check it out here > (https://theblack.report)

Successfully collaborating with an all-star team of content researchers, UI & UX designers & developers in critique sessions to ensure all content & designs were functional, engaging and aesthetically pleasing for readers

ClearScore

Served as a Frontend developer on the Design System & Subscriptions team

- Led a widescale Design System audit & introductory research on introducing Styled-Components into Clearscore's Design System

- Worked on many parts of the COVID-hub informational page to assist users through the corona pandemic

- Worked on ClearScore new Protect subscription service, alerting our user's to stolen information on the Dark Web

Ended due to COVID-19

Frontend Developer

Tesco

Front-end web development. React, Redux, Next.js, Jest, GraphQL, Node.js & Storybook 

- Contributing to Tesco’s UI component libraries considering performance, accessibility & cross-browser support.

- Implemented app-monitoring software (AppDynamics) site-wide across a number of Tesco's domains.

- Worked on the new Tesco.com/phones website using Next.JS for SSR based performance boosts.

- Contributed to new Tesco Voucher Wallet initiative

Software Development Engineer II

Software Engineer

ClickServices

- Implementing digital rebrand & strategy that saw company sales rise across the board.
- Contributed to the development of the new  appointment bookings system built with React, GraphQL & Node 
- Helped to build bespoke staff management system (JobSlink) with JS, Node, GraphQL and React for the front end.

Makers Academy

Makers Academy Scholarship Recipient. 

Software Development Principles:
 OOD, TDD, BDD, SOLID
        XP Values, Agile
        Solo, pair and team programming

    Technical Skills:
        Server-side: Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, Node.js, Express
        Client-side: HTML, CSS, jQuery
        Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB
        Testing Frameworks: Sinatra, RSpec, Capybara, Jasmine, Mocha, Chai, Zombie
        Others: Travis CI, CodeClimate, Heroku, AWS S3

Software Engineer (Bootcamp)

I help companies build amazing SaaS apps & sites | Contract Fullstack Developer

Hi, I'm Alfie. 

I help businesses create dope, profitable digital experiences for their audience via web development & design services. Unchartered territory is my thing.

From building & designing the prettiest and easiest way to create a memecoin in 2020 on BSC / Ethereum (memecoingen.com); 

Launching an NFT project on Solana in 2021 (stonedbudsociety.com); 

Helping crypto fan token service XCAD relaunch their web3 enabled site this year (launchpad.xcadnetwork.com);

Helping RandGallery rebuild their leading Algorand NFT marketplace from the ground up (randgallery.com - Date TBD 👀)

To working on projects in partnership with Google & 10x10VC to document the real stats on minority business founders in the UK (www.theblack.report).

I love building the unbuilt.

If you have an interesting project and want to talk business, feel free to shoot me an email! (hello@waterwhip.co)

alternatively, check out our site for more info (www.waterwhip.co)

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