My Journey
My love for coding started back in the 1980s when, at age 7, my dad brought home a BBC Micro for the summer holidays. With no games, no tape recorder — just a programming book and the built-in BASIC interpreter — I taught myself to write simple games and programs. That early spark never faded; it grew into a lifelong passion for building things with code.
Years later, while working in insurance and client advisory, I began creating WordPress sites to generate leads. The results were immediate — niche sites started driving real sales and revenue. That success led me to custom sites with Bootstrap, and eventually to professional web development with modern stacks.
Today I build and deliver full-stack web applications end-to-end — React & TypeScript frontends, ASP.NET Core Web APIs, relational databases (PostgreSQL, SQLite), Docker containerisation, and live deployment. I've shipped production code on a financial trading platform, a complex mining data platform, and CMS-driven client sites, and I continue building commercially relevant full-stack projects independently.
I thrive in collaborative Agile teams — working closely with designers, product owners, and backend developers. I'm genuinely comfortable across the full stack: building pixel-perfect React UIs from Figma, designing and consuming REST APIs, writing C# service logic, managing EF Core migrations, debugging full request cycles, and contributing to code reviews and sprint planning.
Experience Highlights
MineSmart Platform
Full-stack React + C#/.NET mining data platform
- • Built interactive real-time data dashboards in React & TypeScript
- • Integrated React frontend with C# ASP.NET Core backend APIs
- • Contributed to 3D mine visualisation interfaces using Three.js
- • Developed complex UI for volume calculations and pipe pressure monitoring
Financial Trading Platform
React & TypeScript frontend for a financial services platform
- • Built complex, accessible financial UI components in React & TypeScript
- • Handled complex forms, validation and real-time data flows
- • Integrated with REST APIs and collaborated on requirements with stakeholders
- • Delivered responsive, pixel-perfect implementations from design specs
Kivells — Orchard Core CMS
Production CMS development on a commercial client site using Orchard Core
- • Developed components and page layouts in Orchard Core over 2+ years commercially
- • Built and maintained custom content types, workflows and templates
- • Implemented responsive designs from Figma using Razor / Liquid templating
- • Collaborated directly with clients on requirements and iterative delivery
What I Do
Full Stack Web Development
Building data-driven web applications using React & TypeScript with backend integration in C#/.NET, handling full request lifecycles from UI through to API and data layers.
Backend & API Systems
Developing REST APIs, backend modules, and background processing systems using C#/.NET, with secure cloud integration across Azure services and containerised environments.
Frontend Engineering & UI
Delivering clean, maintainable interfaces from Figma using React, Tailwind and modern tooling like TanStack Query, Axios, Formik and Zod for robust state and form handling.
CMS Development — Orchard Core
Extensive commercial Orchard Core CMS experience building custom content types, Razor/Liquid templates, and component-driven layouts for production client sites. A relatively rare and in-demand skill in the .NET ecosystem.