Hi there.
I'm Jessie...

Consultancy prepared me for developing dependable, production-ready solutions with multidisciplinary teams. It has taught me about working with established code bases, and collaborating with developers from a range of backgrounds and skill levels. With my most recent clients I've:

• Lead development of a SaaS client’s Express RESTful API and created a Firebase wrapper for their React app, enabling them to transition away from Firebase, reducing request latency by 10%.

• Developed and deployed a Puppeteer microservice. I worked with stakeholders to create a secure API endpoint that delivered mission critical, consistent, lightweight PDFs of key customer analytics.

• Patched 3 critical CVEs in a legacy API found by commercial penetration tests. Advised the developers and created unit tests using Vitest to avoid future vulnerabilities, allowing them to pass their next test.

• Advised their Cyber Essentials Plus certification by writing internal guidance on opsec, allowing us to pass Cyber Essentials Plus certification

• Lead the transition to Docker after collaborating a plan with stakeholders and team members. This allowed for seamless, platform agnostic development and deployment, reducing vendor lock-in.

From consulting on security, infrastructure and dev ops, to pair programming and contributing my own code to mission critical projects... I've lead development, collaborated with lead developers, and delivered products with other team members that customers can depend on.

In my teaching practice, I developed and delivered a comprehensive full-stack web development training program for my tutees. It covered a range of languages, including technologies such as: React, Node, and Laravel. I'm proud to have helped my students start and progress their careers in software engineering. In my tutoring practice I:

• Mentored developers through over 1000 hours of training, teaching JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PHP & MySQL via pair programming, kick starting careers and refining the skills of junior developers.

• Trained system administration skills: deploying Linux VPSs, setting up & securing web servers. Supporting my students to deploy reliable, secure infrastructure.

• Demonstrated cyber security best practices by showing vulnerabilities and their fixes to tutees.

• Taught key project management skills: producing MVPs and turning them into production ready products, managing version control via Git and effectively utilising issue reporting to keep track of bugs.

These experiences have enriched my communication and mentorship skills, especially in articulating complex technical concepts and problem solving strategies- all skills crucial for collaborative teamwork and mentorship of colleagues. I deeply enjoy teaching and seeing people progress as what I'm teaching "clicks", and I look forward to more opportunities for teaching in future!