Gareth Talty

Establishing best practices relating to: front-end development, agile delivery, branching strategy, code review, service versioning.

Introduction of development best practices:

Linting (eslint, stylelint) & code formatting (prettier)

Unit testing (jest, Testing Library,

Integration & functional (e2e) testing with Cypress

Development of strategic functionality, primarily with ReactJS, Node.js, AWS Lambda

Line manager & 1:1 coach for 6 engineers

Production release support

Production outage escalation and out-of-hours support & resolution

• Internal service dashboard
• Internal dev utils (IP whitelisting, …)

Development of pre-commit hooks for enforcing code quality

Introduction of testable functional programming patterns

Resolution of critical security vulnerabilities identified in PEN Testing

Resolved a critical data-scale challenge by implementing module pagination across the Portal

Definition of World Class UI and a strategy to achieve it

Development of front-end apps for high-traffic Commercial & Private Banking customers

Rearchitected legacy banking application front-end

Integration with RESTful & SOAP micro-services & legacy systems

Led a front-end testing culture, leveraging jest, enzyme, testcafe & storybook

Delivered regular front-end community presentations (git process, test-driven-development, functional programming, development and deployment of cloud tooling) to multiple scrum teams

Internally published Storybook plugin for lifecycle performance measurement for React components

Built Cloud Foundry environments for stubbed sandbox environment & DevOps tooling

Primary technologies used: React, Redux, Jest, Testcafe, Ramda, Webpack, Babel, ES6, Git

Promoting adherence to WCAG AA standards for accessibility

Technical lead of Scrum delivery team; new features; production support; delivered legacy Laravel to Universal (isomorphic) React/Redux stack; delivering UX best-practices; code-review & sign-off

Line manager & 1:1 coach for 5 engineers

Consuming Microservices through RESTful API’s

Advocating TDD, using modern JavaScript frameworks; Enzyme, Mocha/ Chai/ Sinon, Selenium (via nightwatch.js)

On-boarding & up-skilling of Junior/Mid engineers

Implemented Scrum across multiple business functions (Data/Analytics, Brand, Projects, Digital Product)

Created & led Tech recruitment initiative; defined Jira workflow, created a low-bias pipeline; tested & interviewed ~300+ engineers; managed hiring engineering team from 3 to 18 engineers; arranged, attended & organised recruitment events

Full-stack development of RWAs using RoR, vanilla ES5, MySQL/Postgres

Project samples: https://behance.net/garethtalty

Installation & configuration of Wi-Fi networks in 21 privately owned chalet residences

1st line technical support for up to 200 guests each week

Dev of BPM Processes for order fulfilment, ITIL Incident Management, CMDB, using Java + Oracle11g, Perl & MySQL

UI development; HTML, CSS, JavaScript for high-profile web apps

Dev of SOAP Web Services/ WSDL definitions, built on Java (JBoss)

Creation of Business Rules Engine using MS SQL Database & VBA Prototype generated valid XML to be processed by an external robotics application

Proficient with Amadeus GDS & Amadeus Web Services

Assisted development of a new consulting service offer for Amadeus clients

Creation of internal tools to increase consultant productivity (e.g. client proposal generation increased productivity by ~400%)