Senior Full-Stack Engineer | TypeScript & Node | Broadcast & Live Production | Developer Tooling

Core Technologies

• Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, PHP
• Frontend: React
• Backend: Node.js
• Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB
• DevOps & CI/CD: Docker, docker-compose, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, AWS CodeBuild, Jenkins, Travis
• Tooling: Git, npm, Yarn, uv, Composer

Over 25 years of experience

• Deliver full-stack web and mobile applications in TypeScript, React, and Node.js across 25+ years in the industry.
• Build reliable, data-driven software on PostgreSQL and MySQL that supports business outcomes.

Stepping back to simplify

• Re-architected timing for Sofie T-Timers by moving calculations from the client to the server: running clocks receive only a zeroTime (future for countdowns, past for stopwatches/timers), paused clocks receive remainingTime, and both update only on state changes, with the client refreshing the display once per second via setTimeout.
• Cut timer recalculation from 60/s to 1/s (~98% fewer ticks), substantially reducing frontend workload and enabling new custom timer types for client-specific broadcast workflows.

Considered a "git wizard" by colleagues

• Delivered company-wide Git talks and built tooling including pre-commit lint hooks to streamline advanced version-control workflows.
• Configured GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, AWS CodeBuild, Travis, and Jenkins for trigger-based test pipelines; contributed a fix to the original GitHub hub CLI.
• Updated and improved sofie-code-standard-preset with additional ESLint, Prettier, and EditorConfig rules to improve code readability, reduce style-driven merge conflicts, and free developers to focus on substance over style; added a setup CLI so new projects can adopt it in one command.
• Maintain jamies-git-tools, including git-resolve-formatting-conflicts, which automatically fixes formatting-only merge clashes, and git-bisect-rebase to bring long-running branches up to date incrementally rather than resolving every conflict at once.

Fan of configuration as code

• Engineered redash-loader to export Redash BI queries and dashboards as version-controlled YAML, SQL, and JSON. Enabled tracked, branchable, and portable analytics configuration across environments.
• Built YAML import/export for Bitfocus Companion to manage live A/V and streaming setups.
• Optimized Docker images to runtime-only binaries and orchestrated multi-container stacks with docker-compose.

Experienced with Agile practices and collaboration

• Led sprint planning, retrospectives, and daily stand-ups in Agile teams.

Hobbies and Community Contributions

Extensive volunteer experience in audio-visual operations

• I direct and vision-mix live multi-camera video for church YouTube Live streams and in-room IMAG displays and graphics; over 25 years of volunteer A/V experience including camera operating and sound engineering.

Significant contributions to open-source data

• Contributed extensively to early MusicBrainz, OpenStreetMap, and Stack Overflow communities.

Available for my next project

• Delivered major Sofie TV automation features for the BBC and SVT through Superfly.
• Based near Oxford; open to remote (global), hybrid, or local on-site.

My Superfly contract is coming to its conclusion; I am now looking for my next project. Feel free to reach out to discuss broadcast automation, full-stack TypeScript, or developer tooling.