Marc Hinton

• The Elucidat course authoring platform enables giants like Walmart, Coca-Cola, and Tesco to create powerful e-learning courses to up-skill their internal teams. I have used my knowledge of PHP, Laravel, React and AWS SDKs to advance the software-as-a-service offering, and been proud of my achievements., Here are a few of them:
• Contributed 81% of the code toward a ground-breaking, flexible automatic translation tool that was responsible for 80% of new sales in 2023, which translates to almost £1,000,000 in revenue
• Implemented Auth0; a secure user authentication SDK, to ensure compliance with GDPR and secure ISO 27001 certification for data integrity and security

My day-to-day tasks include:

• Building and maintaining REST APIs that enable communication between our suite of microservice apps
• Completing sprint tickets, reviewing pull requests, and performing preliminary quality assurance tests before handing tickets to our dedicated QA team
• Creating beautiful front-end components with React
• Investigating time-boxed spikes and creating tickets containing my research process, findings, and next steps
• Collaborating with colleagues to unblock them, and share product and development knowledge
• Working closely with our in-house dev-ops team to set up and manage infrastructure as we break off pieces of a CodeIgniter 2 monolith, into clean, maintainable Laravel micro-services
• Writing complex SQL queries to extract data from a ten billion-row MySQL database, as we deprecate old services and generate detailed reports for investors

• I believe in fostering meaningful relationships with colleagues and earning trust and support by consistently delivering high-quality features and using my strengths to support and encourage others. Naturally, my role changed at World Merit, as I became more of a managerial figure within the team and was perfectly situated to progress when the Lead Developer role presented itself.
• Some of my responsibilities included:
• Recruiting, mentoring, and managing developers to ensure they were supported as they up-skilled and added increasing value to the product
• Writing technical plans which allowed stakeholders to stay informed and accumulated context from all areas of the business to aid and align the development and QA process
• Breaking down complex projects into manageable tickets in Jira, and leading weekly refinement meetings to assign story points and acceptance criteria; outlining our capacity as a team
• Leading our two-week sprints (we never missed a sprint goal!) and supporting developers and QA's to get tickets developed, reviewed, tested, and included in our release candidate every two weeks

• When World Merit and I started working together, they had a lofty ambition: to create a community-led platform that would measure and reward on-the-ground action, taken toward ending poverty, inequality, and environmental issues, by 2030.
• I was instrumental in the creation of 'The Impact App', which launched in 2017. I worked on some cool features, and achieved some audacious goals, such as:
• Conceptualized and built a peer-to-peer content review system featuring a virtual economy powered by secure digital currency which secured a £250,000 investment from the MISK Foundation, based in Saudi Arabia
• Secured big clients by heavily contributing to an extensively documented REST API, that was built to allow partners to manage their connection to the virtual economy