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Marc Hinton

Marc Hinton

Liverpool

Summary

As a seasoned Full-Stack Software Engineer with a proven track record of consistently delivering high-quality products, I am excited by the opportunity to contribute my extensive skill set and experience to your team. I take great pride in the high quality of my work, my exceptional communication skills, and my ability to plan, lead, and breathe life into projects as they grow from conception to completion. I am eager to help elevate your web app to new heights and achieve outstanding results together.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Full-Stack Developer

Elucidat
03.2022 - Current
  • 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

Lead Developer

World Merit
02.2018 - 03.2022
  • 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

Developer

World Merit
08.2016 - 02.2018
  • 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

Skills

Laravel

React

JavaScript

SQL

Git

HTML & CSS

AWS

Blade Syntax

Library design

Tailwind CSS

Writing unit & functional tests

Timeline

Full-Stack Developer - Elucidat
03.2022 - Current
Lead Developer - World Merit
02.2018 - 03.2022
Developer - World Merit
08.2016 - 02.2018
Marc Hinton