
Culture Amp - Backend/API Performance and restructuring.
Working initially on backend API performance and optimization, using Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Sidekiq jobs,...
Ruby on Rails 6 (and 7), Kaizen design system, MySQL, Sidekiq, React, Typescript, Launch Darkly SDKs and REST APIs, DataDog

GOOD Meat
Technical Director - GOOD Meat global launch experience
Working with the creative director, producer, designers, modelers and a great dev team, we pulled...
Vue, Bitbucket Pipelines, AWS S3, CloudFront, CDN, Lambda, Route53, IAM, Figma

Mobile-first front-end refresh
A fresh mobile-first UI using Bootstrap 4.5
Re-construct almost every page/view to simplify the HTML, apply Bootstrap classes, and create a simple...
Ruby on Rails 5, Bootstrap 4.5, HTML 5, CSS & SASS

Upgrade of Hire Things - Versions, Gems, Payments, AWS
Full upgrade and replatform to AWS. Upgrade from Rails 2.3 to 5.2
Full upgrade from Ruby on Rails 2.3 hosted in Auckland on a VPS, to Ruby...
Ruby on Rails 5, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS S3, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS RDS (with MySQL), AWS Elastic Cache, Git, Git Deployments, AWS Simple Email Service

ptorrsmith.com Rails 5 multi-style personal profile site
(Re-)Learning Rails 5.2 over 226 tutorials!
This has taken about 9 weeks on and off, as part of my up-skilling on...
Postgresql DB, Heroku, Redis, Javascript and CoffeeScript, HTML5, CSS3/SCSS, Ruby on Rails 5 (now upgraded to Rails 6)

Ensprial Dev Academey Bootcamp: Aug - Dec 2018 'Hihi' cohort
Javascript and more javascript!
18 weeks of Javascript, mobile responsive HTML5, CSS3/SASS, node.js, express router, databases, APIs, React/Mobile, Redux,...
Javascript, CSS3, HTML5, Heroku, Mobile-responsive, React, Redux, Security, authentication, authorisation, Team dynamics and shared goals, Agile practices, Kanban, Mindfulness, Git and Github. Pull Requests, Issues and Git projects, kanban boards
Enspiral Dev Academy 'Hihi 2018' first 24-hour group project - Lenda NZ
Our first group project - Bobbie's idea to do a community sharing site :-)
Our first node.js database driven mobile-responsive web application. Using Handlebars for server-side template rendering of...
Node.js, HTML5, CSS3 - mobile-first responsive, Handlebars

Enspiral Dev Academy Phase 0 Hand-coded blog and prep projects
Working through 9 weeks of ground-up learnings on mobile web dev
The first phase before the EDA Dev Bootcamp is to work through weekly learnings and...
HTML5, CSS3 and mobile-first responsive design and build, Javascript, Functional Programming

Agile Practices and Enterprise Collaboration Tooling
Atlassian tools and practices, Github Projects - Strategy and Ops
Establishing, evolving, operating MSD's enterprise agile practices and collaboration tools practice. Based mostly around Atlassian...

MyMSD
Enabling great User Experiences, Mobile first
Looking after the MSD Digital Mobile Capability Bringing in Alphero to ensure a great UX...
UX, mobile responsive

MyStudyLink mobile
First and second phases of mobile-responsive service for MyStudyLink
Worked with the StudyLink GM to build case for phased introduction of mobile responsive interface...
UX, mobile responsive, Vendor collaboration

MSD Youth Service Provider Activity Reporting Tool
Getting our youth back into education
Agile Project Manager for ART. This was a portal for our social service providers, MSD...
Ruby on Rails, Agile Project Management, Analysis and User Experience

Accent Learning - School Solutions, ELTO,
Catalyst IT project for Victoria University / VicLink
Project Lead, Business UX, IA and solution analysis and design. Delivery Manager. Design and build...
Drupal CMS, Business analysis, User Experience. Wireframes and flow., Information Architecture

HireThings.com / .co.nz / com.au
Startups and realities of an online marketplace... the long journey
Co-founder and early developer of www.hirethings.co.nz. Subsequently servicing Australia with www.hirethings.com.au Supporting the service and...