🎨 Projects

Projects I'd be interested in working on

  • ⚽ Football Applications

    I am a huge fan of football and I would love to work on anything football related.
    Player scouting, training, and progress tracking are some of the areas that I would enjoy working on.

  • 🥃 Whisky and/or Beer

    Living in an area surrounded by distilleries, I have developed a taste for whisky and craft beers.
    Distillery operations and distribution management are areas of particular interest to me.

  • 🚀 Space tech

    Scotland now has 5 spaceports which undoubtedly means there are companies and industries near by.
    Who wouldn't want to work on space tech? This industry certainly has the wow factor.

  • 🏨 Hospitality

    My career background is in hospitality and I have a lot of experience in the industry.
    There are so many areas that could be improved with technology. Hotel operations and guest experience are just a couple of examples of projects that would interest me.

Previous Projects

  • Apply for Initial Teacher Training

    A GOV.UK service handling thousands of teacher training applications annually. Built with Rails, following government digital service standards. Focus on accessibility, performance, and maintaining uptime during peak application periods. Currently leading technical direction across the service and related recruitment tools.

    #ruby_on_rails

  • Core EdTech Platform

    Core application platform for the education technology market. Architected from scratch with Rails, establishing patterns and practices that would scale. Built the technical foundation including testing frameworks, code quality standards, and deployment pipelines.

    #ruby_on_rails #action_cable #javascript #stimulusjs

  • Government COVID Business Loan Processing

    Loan processing system for administering government-backed COVID business loans. The interesting challenge was adapting the system rapidly as pandemic policies changed - requirements were shifting weekly. Built with Rails, focusing on getting critical funding to businesses quickly while maintaining data integrity and audit trails.

    #ruby_on_rails

  • Fast Food Drive Thru

    Multi-application Rails system for a major restaurant chain’s drive-thru operations. Multiple interconnected Rails apps handling ordering, payment processing, kitchen displays, and order tracking. Used HOTwire for real-time updates across all interfaces. The challenge was coordinating state across multiple screens and systems while maintaining responsiveness.

    #ruby_on_rails #hotwire

  • Remote Device Control

    Real-time classroom collaboration system. Rails backend with WebSocket-based frontend for multi-screen sharing. Integrated with IoT services to handle classroom hardware. The interesting bit was keeping everything in sync across multiple screens with minimal latency.

    #ruby_on_rails #action_cable #javascript #stimulusjs

  • Child Safeguarding Software

    Full stack Rails application for educational institutions handling sensitive child protection data. Led a complete frontend redesign while keeping the system running in production. Launched a free version during COVID-19 to support schools. The trickier work was refactoring the domain model as the product evolved from MVP to enterprise software.

    #ruby_on_rails #action_cable #javascript #stimulusjs

  • Customisation of Dynamics365

    Contributed to the building of development tools to aid the development and deployment of Angular based frontends to the Microsoft Dynamics 365 platform.

    #typescript #angular #Dynamics365