Neil Redfern

Full stack permanent developer creating and adapting internal portal websites to create and manage devices which is one of the companies main products. My main task has been to improve a internal NextJs website by improving the look and feel and the UX of how the site works. I improved the website by upgrading packages, removing redundant packages, giving the website a modern look and feel, making the website fully responsive using styled components, adding in full e2e tests using Cypress, adding git hooks to prevent errors, added prettier to auto format code and more. This was all presented to management and stakeholders on a regular basis to get feedback and prioritise new and future features to be developed.

Front end react developer working on creating a brand new fantasy section to the tote website www.tote.co.uk/fantasy. This was a fully front end role, skills used were: React, react context, react testing library, cypress for automated ui testing, styled components, circle ci, graphql, aws.

Front end react developer working on creating a brand new website for www.betfred.com and www.oddsking.com, the role was mainly front end but also included some node, ruby and work on a custom built cms. Skilled used: React, node, sass, redux, react testing library, jest, jenkins.

Full stack react and node developer working on creating a brand new website and entire tech stack for the new www.tote.co.uk, including CI, front end, back end, hosting etc. Skilled used: ReactJs, node, lambdas, styled components, circle ci, terraform, aws.

Full stack reactjs and c# developer working on new websites for the totepool brand, working on pools.tote.co.uk and www.tote.co.uk. Working with an up to date tech stack of: ReactJs, C#. dot net core, sass, styled components, nextjs, ci (teamcity), tdd, aws, elastic beanstalk, lambda, cloud formation and more

Working on revamping the www.stockport.gov.uk website using the latest tech stack: .Net Core, MVC 6, TDD, Moq, Contentful, Docker, AWS, SASS, Gulp, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Git, Coding in the open (partial open source), CI, Pair Programming and more. While working here I helped create a public rest api for the stockport website, this included rate limiting, versioning, confirming the urls to rest standards, api keys, swagger integration.

Working on various C# websites including 2 bespoke MVC solutions and an Umbraco MVC solution. Main skills used here are: C#, MVC, Entity Framework, SQL, Stored Procedures, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, Grunt, Design Patterns, NUnit, MSTest, Dependency Injection, Moq, TeamCity, Agile, Umbraco, Git and Jira

Mainly working as a C# developer, working with and expanding various CMS based .Net systems including: Umbraco, Sitecore, Kentico, Immedacy and Telligent.

My main responsibilities were to work and a large scale of projects developing many dynamic websites. These websites ranged from small HTML and CSS cut up websites to large dynamic data driven websites. I also worked on a few native iPhone applications using Objective-C and Xcode.

Main responsibilities include developing new features for www.howdidido.com, designing and developing new micro sites. Other responsibilities include server managing, email campaigns, website analytics, statistics, design mock-ups, adverts design and more.