Steven Meiklejohn

An experienced senior developer in full stack software development, with strong mentoring and leadership skills and expertise in front end JavaScript frameworks such as React, NextJS and Angular.

I have successfully led a team to deliver complex, user friendly web solutions to tight deadlines and have an affinity for quickly identifying and fixing bugs in applications.

I enjoy creating and managing development opportunities for members of my team and mentoring their journey.

- Worked as part of a team to deliver software training courses to over 1000 career changing students annually.

- Delivered courses in Python, SQL, HTML, Node, React, Vue, MongoDB, Java, Spring, Django, C#, Agile, Testing and Unity.

- Organised Course schedules and instructor resourcing.

- Used student and industry feedback to improve training techniques and course content.

- Designed and led the creation and development of a new document upload application using modern development standards with React, from initial concept through testing to production deployment.

- Implemented modern testing strategies using Jest, Cypress and Mocha to be ran in development with a view to reducing bugs caught in test.

- Designed and developed a 'duel route' Postcode Checker application to handle benefit rollouts in pilot areas.

- Worked closely with test and cloud teams to understand and improve process flow in development.

- Analysed and fully documented previous Document Upload application (built using Angular 2).

- Led and supported a development team, developing team members skills through mentorship, hands on guidance and practical training.