Andrew

Vos

Building a colouring app/game for iOS using AI for generating images and text content.

Taking a break to work on personal projects and travel.

Worked with Featurist on the QuidCo site rewrite.

• Worked on the QuidCo site rewrite.
• Rebuilt a vital high-traffic API without downtime using nginx to proxy requests to the old and new API.

Lead a team of developers to rewrite money management tools (apps) to make them more intuitive, accessible, and beautiful.

• Designed and built many money tools for the UK government.
• Presented and championed the moving of many projects out of a failing AEM (Adobe Experience Manager) system to Next.js and TypeScript.
• Designed the whole development system to allow multiple teams to build tools concurrently.
• Managed the deployment infrastructure for the team.
• Approved all code reviews from an external agency who were building tools in the same codebase.

• Stamp Duty Land Tax Calculator
• Land Transaction Tax Calculator
• Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT) calculator
• Compare Accounts
• Debt Advice Locator
• Inbest Benefits and grants checker

Worked for an agency that builds video conferencing software for multiple clients.

• Added new features to video conferencing software.

Started out on a contract to design nationalcareforce.co.uk, then designed and built other apps.

• Build the National Care Force site during COVID-19 to help volunteers find places to volunteer.
• Built staffsmarter.co.uk, a care provider resource manager app that allowed clients to manage their staff shifts.
• Built Florence Rota, an easier to use version of staffsmarter.co.uk. This app included a drag and drop interface that allowed clients to easily manage staff allocation to shifts with a fully functional calendar.

• Florence Rota

Built a subscription managment system for Sam's Club

• Built a system that allowed customers to buy recurring subscriptions for contact lenses in the US

Started off as a Developer then became Tech Lead on the Product Growth team

• Managed a team of six engineers
• Worked with the team to make the product infrastructure more stable
• Fixed performance issues in production
• Managed and worked on multiple regional product expansion projects

Working with a Featurist team we designed and built an app that would allow users to exchange many different currencies.

• Built the foreignexchange.com money transfer service

• Created a telephone appointment booking system for The Pensions Advisory Service.

• Telephone Appointment Planner Source

At GDS we were tasked with building the GOV.UK Service Manual site and a CMS for managing all the service manual content.

• Built the GOV.UK Service Manual site with a team of content editors
• Built a CMS for managing all the content

• GOV.UK Service Manual
• Source for GOV.UK Service Manual

Short contract rewriting a site for a large pharmaceutical company.

A contract role doing feature work for Tesco on their homemadebyyou.co.uk project.

My first time working with Featurist, a software development agency built up of friends from ITV and BBC. We were tasked with building all the software for Shopa, an app that would give cashback to users who bought products through our website.

• Wrote the shopa.com Rails app
• Managed all the infrastructure, including extensive use of Docker, AWS, Heroku
• Wrote many microservices (mostly in Golang) that would pull data for hundreds of millions of products from popular affiliate networks and populate ElasticSearch / Postgres databases.
• Wrote an image server in Golang to handle millions of image requests and downloading and resizing them on the fly.

• Worked across three different teams teaching BDD to developers, using Cucumber and Ruby.
• Helped with the interviewing and hiring process.
• Wrote software to enable functional testing of Android Applications.

My first contract role in the UK.

• Worked with the Responsive News team to help teach the use of BDD/TDD.
• Interviewed and hired contractors and permanent developers.
• Redesigned the BBC News site using responsive design techniques to allow the site to work on a large range of mobile phones.
• Set up an automated load testing build configuration using Tsung. This build runs a few times every night and allows us to find out if any code changes during the day have negatively impacted our performance.
• Designed a vagrant / puppet configuration to automatically provision sandbox environments for developers to run their code on.
• Trained testers in the use of Capybara so that they could automate some of their manual tests.
• Ran code dojos to help developers learn Ruby, BDD and TDD.
• Helped the team migrate from Subversion to Git.
• Wrote scripts to automatically deploy our code to test environments after a successful build.

My first media company role. I made many long-term friends at ITV, and I have a lot of memories there. I joined up as a Junior .NET developer, but ended up using Ruby, PHP, and many other technologies.

• Worked on a team writing MRSS integration to allow the BBC to link to ITV videos.
• Worked with a team of ThoughtWorks developers to bring continuous delivery to our team and also improve coding standards throughout the team.
• Setup of a TeamCity CI server with a small build server farm. We also set up multiple build status monitors to show the state of the build and also the state of our various staging environments.
• Automated one-click deployment for all of our staging/production environments.
• Automated the build process for itv.com.
• Trained developers in the use of Cucumber, Capybara and Ruby
• Promoted Acceptance Testing as part of the development process.
• Worked with directly with Akamai using their HLS streaming product to enable people with iOS devices to view streaming adaptive video.