Jo Buxton | G33kette

A strong foundation of technical skills developed over more than 15 years as a professional full stack engineer. Adept at picking up new languages, frameworks and development principles.
4 years’ senior experience, including team leadership and driving technical direction. Motivated to develop high quality solutions and improve processes whilst also balancing business needs. Experienced at working with senior management and clients to translate requirements into robust applications.
Strong background in REST API design and building front end applications for web and mobile using modern Javascript and PHP frameworks.
Well practised in Ubuntu command line, Git, CI, TDD and BDD, agile development, security best practice and web accessibility guidelines.
Capable of managing large complex data sources, including data aggregation and cleaning and designing database schemas. Experience with both relational and schemaless database systems and building high quality interactive data visualisations.
MSc in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (2019) and BSc Physics and Information Systems (2005)

Experience

A logistics startup focused on changing the way we move things.
I joined the company as a senior developer in spring 2022.

Typical Stack: Laravel API, React SPA front end.

Shift Website

Rnwl

An Insurtech startup focused on taking the hassle out of insurance.

Typical Stack: NodeJS microservice APIs, React Native mobile app.

Android App iOS App

Part of the data management team building web solutions for the pharmaceutical industry

Typical Stack: Laravel REST APIs, VueJS SPA web interface.

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Continued Development & Interests

Web development is the foundation of my skills and the fast pace of change keeps me engaged and learning all the time. I attend local user groups, conferences, read blogs and follow social media to ensure my knowledge remains up to date. Personal development includes trying out new languages and frameworks, learning new standards and how to maintain good quality secure systems.

I am also an advocate of accessibility and a good user experience, with many years of experience designing for different browsers and devices. This is another area where standards are always changing and evolving and I maintain knowledge of current trends as well as being well-read in fundamental design principles.

In 2019, I completed a part-time MSc at the University of East Anglia in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (now Data Science). My dissertation investigated using JavaScript based NLP & machine learning algorithms to analyse website text content real-time whilst browsing and provide personalised recommendations to a user.

Community & Education

Being a visible role model and encouraging young people into the technology industry is important to me, particularly because representation of women in the industry is so low.

When my situation has allowed I have volunteered to run an after school Code Club at a local primary school. Code Club is a national organisation which provides materials and support for volunteers to teach children how to code.

I am also an active participant in local user groups and was a co-organiser of PHP Cambridge until I moved out of the area.

Joanne Buxton G33kette

Experience

Rnwl

Continued Development & Interests

Community & Education