Patrick Thorpe

Multi-skilled software agency role including full-stack development, but also project management and close interaction with clients. Gained extensive experience in web app and mobile development using .NET, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Azure, Blazor and MAUI.

• ● Technical lead across more than 15 different client projects including greenfield development and new phases of work on established systems across multiple industries including AI, med-tech, finance, and green energy (and more!).

• ● Mentored junior developers using theoretical discussion, hands-on collaborative working, and constructive code reviews, adapting teaching methods to suit different learning styles.

• ● Led workshops in-person with potential clients, turning business needs and entrepreneurial ideas into product proposals with detailed user flows, data schema, and cloud architecture.

• ● Built and maintained strong stakeholder relationships with existing clients, consistently achieving a bonus for meeting customer satisfaction thresholds in every quarter to date.

• ● Drove and implemented constant improvement to internal tooling and template code. For example, my improvements to client-side app updates resulted in a halving of initial load time for users.

• ● Developed complex integrations with a range of services including Azure services, Stripe Connect asynchronous payment/payout architectures, a bespoke Shopify marketplace React app, OnSched scheduling API, and many more!

• ● Architected and deployed an ML inference cloud pipeline for a wind turbine drone inspections business using Azure Functions and Message Queues which utilised an image detection model written in Python.

• ● Analysed client business cases to produce robust relational data models for each project, and wrote efficient query code using EF Core or SQL (SQL Server/T-SQL).

A rotational graduate scheme where I gained 6+ months of experience in each of the following roles:

• ● Scrum Master: proactively embedded myself into an agile team after shadowing senior scrum masters for a month. Earned PSM I & II qualifications. Provided guidance and agile coaching for an international team of developers. Implemented process and teamwork improvements which resulted in a doubling of velocity per sprint.

• ● full-stack development inJava andJS (React) within an agile team delivering the new Sky Glass product.

• ● Data using GCP, SQL and Python, individually developed a new ML model for predicting customer churn. Presented final results to senior management and deployed a fully working cloud solution.

• ● Monitoring Engineer: assisted with multiple projects for the server monitoring team including migrations and new features involving Elasticsearch, Dynatrace. Individually performed a full rewrite of monitoring dashboard from Python into PHP.

• ● Integrated into a quality-critical development team for a complex med-tech software product. Wrote and reviewed code which was shipped to production to assist real-life maternity/neo-natal medical professional scenarios.

• ● Modernised a medical data reporting system using orchestrated Azure Functions, improving reliability and performance.

• ● Undertook a large scale codebase refactoring class, trimming out thousands of lines of redundant C# code in order to improve codebase maintainability.