With over two decades of experience in web development, I have honed my skills across a diverse array of industries, clients, technologies, and methodologies. Starting back when Netscape Navigator compatibility was a concern and everyone was full stack it's been a natural progression for me to keep learning and remain a full stack developer, evolving with changes in the industry.
While the term 'full stack developer' is often adopted by skilled FE/BE developers dabbling in the other side, I consider myself a true full stack developer able to deliver high quality code in both disciplines. In recent years I've primarily worked with React, Typescript, NodeJS, .Net Core C# and SQL
My journey started all the way back in 2001 buiding a website for the global architecture firm Foster + Partners. I was placed there for my year in industry as part of my Computer Science degree at Staffordshire University and towards the end of that year they put myself and a designer (Kevin) in a two man team charged with redesigning and rebuilding their portfolio (.com) website. I returned to university and graduated with a 2:1 BEng with honours.
I landed a job as a junior developer at a NMA Top 100 media agency in March 2003, Freestyle Interactive. Joining a seven person development team and hit the ground running being asked to build their site in Flash in just two weeks after several freelancers had been unable to do the job ahead of the companies rebrand launch.
After eight years the plan was to join a London media agency but I applied for a contract role from a hostel in Buenos Aires. The project was to build a MVC CMS site for the world famous recording studio Abbey Road. I got a second contract role, then a third, then a forth... and finally in 2016 after years of working under an umbrella company I created Little Big Tank.
Today I'm primarily still highered to assist teams on large projects for high profile clients but LBT does occasionally take on smaller projects and when required leans on a talented pool of industry contacts.
