56 Valley Road, Loughborough, LE11 3PZ

PARDEEPSINGHBASI

+447540309500

PersonalStatement

MyaimistoestablishmyselfwithintheITindustry.Iamanhonest,determined,motivatedanddiligentworkerwholovesachallenge.Whenfacedwithadifficultproblem,Iwillcontinuetoapplymyselfuntilithasbeenresolved.Thisisespeciallytruewhenfacedwithaprogrammingtask,asadmittedlyIhaveacertainloveforprogramming.IamaquicklearnerandhaveakeeninterestinWWW,aswellaslatesttechnologies.Recenttechnologiestocapturemyinterestsinclude Real-Time Information using HTML5, JavaScript/Angular/React and NodeJS/Express/Socket.IO, as well as pre-processors/post-processors (LESS / SASS / Pleeease), task runners such as grunt, gulp, webpack and ParcelJStonamejustafew.Hence,themorecutting-edgeworkthebetter.IdobelievethatIcancontributegreatlytoarapidlyexpandingsector.

Iamlookingfornewchallengesonprojectsthataremakingrealproductsandsolvingrealproblems.

EmploymentHistory

JUNE 2017 – JULY 2018JAVASCRIPT UI DEVELOPER

Parexel (Nottingham)

Creating stateful applications and stateless UI component library with ngrx, RxJS, Angular 6, Typescript, webpack and gulp.
Internationalising Angular applications using compiled Ahead Of Time code and the i18n standard
Creating Proofs of Concept for internalisation and server-side rendering using nodeJS and expressJS.
Creating the library release process, inlcuding usage of conventional commit messages to create a distributable changelog, adhering to gitflow principles.

Skills Acquired

Daily scrum with weekly team planning meetings.
Ensuring library was released on a weekly cycle, incorporating semantic versioning and release.
Refining the development experience, creating watch tasks within gulp and integrating unit tests within Azure CI.
Research into using universal rendering and TransferState for various angular applications
Usage of Hot Module Reloading (HMR) within applications for a better overall developer experience.

MARCH 2017 – JUNE 2017FRONTEND DEVELOPER

MMT Digital (Uppingham)

Working with Kentico CMS to implement new features and fix bugs
Liaising with clients to clarify requirements
Pushing functionality to QA for client testing, before staging content to live servers
Liaising with fellow colleagues for suggestions on best implementation strategies

Skills Acquired

Daily scrum stand up meetings
Working to deadlines
Gitflow source control procedure
Grunt workflow, incorporating various procedures to JS/CSS before deployment

NOV 2016 – FEB 2017JAVASCRIPT FULLSTACK DEVELOPER

Red Box Recorders (Nottingham)

Working on legacy Insight platform using AngularJS (1.5), adding few new features and fixing bugs where necessary.
Worked on new Quality Management Product using Angular2, rxjs, typescript, nodejs, express, sql server
Supporting other team members with creating high quality web components
Implementing features based on loose requirements or previous products.

Skills Acquired

Daily/weekly scrum stand up meetings
Working to deadlines, or suggesting timescales for work
Implementing Telerik reporting - both deployment of C#.Net Web API within gulp and implementing reporting controls within the frontend, using jQuery and Angular2.
Setup gulp workflow, integrating starting the node.js server and browser-sync for local development environment.
Research into optimisation of Angular2, using webpack and AOT

APR 2016 – OCT 2016SENIOR FRONTEND DEVELOPER

RS Components (Corby)

Progressively enhancing user experience using javascript and css for the mobile ecommerce platform.
Creating new pages and proof of concepts (POCs) for the company.
Supporting other team members in creation of data to be rendered on the view.
Supporting QA test team in development of test cases.
Liaising with the Product Owner to clarify requirements and blocking user stories as appropriate.

Skills Acquired

Agile scrum with retrospectives, backlog grooming, daily stand ups and monthly sprint cycles.
Test driven development and testing with jasmine-jquery library.
Bootstrap 4SASS and CSS3 including new properties such as flexbox support.
Knowledge of coding jsp view templating language.

MAR 2016 – APR 2016JAVASCRIPT APPLICATIONS DEVELOPER

Centrica – British Gas (Leicester)

Creating a new Single Page Application for both web and windows devices using Windows Universal Application (WUA) platform, to be used in the field for gas engineers.
Supporting existing windows phone applications.
Created custom gulp tasks for hot reloading of WUA app within simulation mode.
Created an express server to mock API specification for back-end requirements (real API was delayed)

Skills Acquired

Agile scrum methodology with bi-weekly sprint cycles, daily stand ups and burn down.
Typescript and Aurelia framework knowledge, as well as JSON schema and validation.
Test driven development and code coverage tools, using remap from generated javascript files to typescript source code.
Responsive design using bootstrap 4 sass.

OCT 2015 – FEB 2016SENIOR FRONTEND ENGINEER

Slimming World (Alfreton)

Created a Single Page Application using AngularJS, for the new iceland food range (
Redesigned in a mobile-first responsive manner the professional health site (
Created a responsive fullscreen background video landing page for the January “Live Happy” campaign (
Redesigned the homepage to incorporate the background video within the “live happy” section. Also fixed bugs within responsive design (
Complete reskin of the existing Weight Loss Planner for launch in the USA, using a mobile-first responsive approach ( - not currently launched and also requires login details). Also implemented syns estimator and charting capabilities using d3.js.
Prototyping the new slimming world 2.0 site using fluxible, react, webpack and react-router written in typescript.

Skills Acquired

Working within tight sprint cycles and deadlines
New mobile-first responsive design techniques using SASS & susy framework
Setup a gulp/sass workflow within an IIS server by use of proxy
Multi-device testing using provided real world devices
Webpack jsx transformation and hot loading within a gulp workflow using webpack dev server
Group seminar for training purposes, acknowledging communication amongst teams a vital part of development process.
Teaching the team about gulp, browser sync and javascript standards.

JUNE 2015 – SEPT 2015JAVASCRIPT/ANGULARJS WEB DEVELOPER

William Hill (Gibraltar)

Creating and updating tickets and merge requests within a gitlab private server.
Componetising web framework modules into npm packages for use with browserify & gulp.
Optimisation of AngularJS modules and views, including usage of one-time bindings and pure javascript.
Optimisation of the vegas mobile platform, including reduction in render times and network requests
through lazy loading techniques.
Usage of lodash library to optmise javascript code where required.
Using Chrome DevTools to identify any potential performance bottlenecks such as repaints, first paint time and reducing these to improve overall performance on mobile devices (promoting layers).
Improvements to the custom component generator npm package
Consuming backend API in a restful manner using AngularJS

Skills Acquired

AngularJS modules written in a CommonJS format to be minified by browserify.
Gulp / SASS workflow for individual components, written in BEM syntax to keep styles flat and clean
Npm packages and node.js for generating the individual components scaffold, including nvm to keep system portable between old framework and new modular framework.
Chrome DevTools, reducing critical render paths and various optimisations.
Usage of Squiz CMS to serve any assets required within the web framework.
Release management process using gulp to pre-production servers as required for test team.
Jasmine and Protractor for writing AngularJS code in a Test Driven Development procedure.
Istanbul for code coverage reporting, integration into CI process to ensure a minimum level of code is under test.

APRIL 2015 – MAY 2015WEB DEVELOPER

Savvy Creative (West Bridgford, Nottingham)

Creating and updating tickets and pull requests within bitbucket.
Aliasing with key team members and customers to ensure product is to specification in an agile manner.
Application written using the Symfony2 framework in a Service Orientated Architecture (SOA).
Usage of Doctrine & Doctrine Query Language (DQL) to keep the platform cross compatible.
Helping fellow team members with javascript/angularjs syntax and direction

Skills Acquired

Effective Project Management using bitbucket pull requests in a gitflow manner.
Symfony2 framework best practices and procedures.
Doctrine ORM and cross platform compatibility
Test Driven Development to ensure code written is under test.
Helped implement their Continuous Integration (CI) Server.

APRIL 2013 – NOV 2014WEB DEVELOPER

Carphone Warehouse Online Solutions (Loughborough)

Updating tickets to reflect work undertaken and time spent
Fixing various bugs with internal systems by means of communicating with appropriate colleagues
Creatingmodular(MVC)reusablecode(OOPapproach), using an in-house developed framework
Ensuring code written is done so with a Test Driven Development (TDD) approach using PHPUnit/QUnit – Continuous Integration using bamboo plans
Fixinganybugsfoundduringthetestingcycle,aswellasimplementinganyfeaturerequests
Having regular project scrum meetings to further discuss any refinements and/or additional functionality as required in an agile environment.
Research into scaling node + socket.io servers using a load balancer, reverse-proxy (websockets forwarding) and alternate store to MemoryStore (e.g. MongoStore, RedisStore).
Built a real-time content management system (CMS) allowing editors to lock pages and communicate with each other, using node.js, socket.io, websockets and express.js framework.
Built an multilingual insurance portal for selling handset insurance, mainly launched for POS systems in France.
Built a graphical single-page application (SPA) using MongoDB, D3.js, CSS3 and html 5 for the insurance portal, ensuring a responsive design was taken. This was a configurable reporting platform powered by a PHP / MongoDB / MySQL back-end. HTML5 Canvas & SVG were also used for various charts.
Built the front-end checkout process for mobiles.co.uk using bootstrap 3 and HTML5 / webshim polyfill for client-side validation, ensuring a smooth user experience resulting in less basket abandonment.
Helped with various bugs for the Pinpoint application, written in Backbone + Marionette framework.

SkillsAcquired

Responsive Web Design (RWD) using twitter bootstrap
Real-time web applications using NodeJS and Socket.IO module
Effective project management by assigning priorities to requirements/tasks using jira
MySQL query optimisation using Explain, adding indexes or re-writing the query for speed
Discussions within weekly team meetings, helping bring about any further improvements on products
Liaising with Senior members to identify possible bottlenecks
Creating solution proposals specific to a problem
Effective git work-flow cohering to the gitflow standards
Effective behavioural driven development (BDD) using gherkin
MongoDB administration including CRUD operations / permissions and master-slave replication
Usage of Backbone.JS + MarionetteJS framework

NOV 2012 – FEB 2013CONTRACT JAVASCRIPT WEBDEVELOPER

Frogtrade (Halifax)

Implemented a new caching system for all client-side production scripts, specifically to work around limitations in proxy caching. This also required Apache mod_rewrite rules to map back version requests to the correct file.
Optimised framework for build environment by ensuring all applications & widgets were in a build-able state; production files could then be sent zipped to the browser
Optimised build environment bringing it closer to a continuous integration methodology.
Helped with the implementation of frog.me, built using the frog4os platform.
Helped a developer resolve a deep issue within the steal library and the frog4os platform.
Suggested using a font file to replace frog4os icons as implemented by Font Awesome project; hence can scale and change the colour of icon quite easily.
Looked into using NodeJS as a replacement for the build server; could therefore easily cluster the build scripts to build the product in parallel, greatly reducing the time needed to deploy a build.

SkillsAcquired

Knowledge in how proxy servers cache their files after being fetched from the web server.
Knowledge in manually resolving any svn file/tree conflicts; especially after merging differing branches together.
Reporting back to team leaders to give various different solutions to problems, including the pro's & con's of each route.
Time keeping and task management skills, as it was all tracked to ensure developer time was well spent and focused.
Knowledge in using GIT as the codebase was being switched over from SVN.

JULY 2012 – NOV 2012CONTRACT PHP WEBDEVELOPER

Leeds Metropolitan University (Leeds)

Corrections & new functionality added to existing legacy systems, going through a complete change control process.
Updated the prospectus site to request data from other servers using CURL.
Rewrote their legacy research ethics system to use the Kohana framework in an abstract manner, and redesigned the look and feel whilst doing so.
Created technical ERD for research ethics system to ensure system could be re-used for various other research portals.
Used existing system to promote code from development to pre-production and from pre-production to production code on the live servers.

SkillsAcquired

Knowledge in using the Kohana framework, inclusive of the cascading model and helpers.
Usage of Oracle 11g database and PL/SQL inclusive of writing packages, prepared statements and procedures.
Tortoise svn including svn externals as separate projects.
Writing clean accessible mark-up which works well across all browsers.

AUGUST 2011 – JULY 2012SENIOR JAVASCRIPT WEBDEVELOPER

Frogtrade (Halifax)

Creating a bespoke VLE system, consisting of PHP back-end API's interacting with html5/css3 and javascriptMVC framework. Written graphical application widgets using HTML5 Canvas, Media widgets using HTML5 Audio/Video API.
Liaising with the project manager and team members to ensure correct solution was taken
Ensuring of code quality; front-end JavaScript code written using Test Driven Development by means of QUnit & Funcunit (Selenium).
Providing a modern approach to problems, using HTML5 & CSS3 where applicable, yet providing elegant fall-back solutions for older browsers.
Ensuring the product was built into production code before being deployed.
Fixing / Tracking bugs, also looked into a continuous integration framework

SkillsAcquired

Leadership, ensuring any junior developers were reaching sensible targets with well-maintained code.
Mobile/Touch compatibility, ensuring the JavaScript code is optimised for touch capable devices.
JavaScript modular design pattern implementation, using known techniques alongside the javascriptmvc framework.
HTML5 & CSS3 techniques, specifically to certain browsers. Canvas animation and debugging in Chrome.
Integrating the product with third party education software

JANUARY2011 – MAY2011WEBDEVELOPER

9XB(Harrogate)

Adheringtoprojectoutlinesandwireframesasagreedbyprojectmanagersandclients
Estimationandprojectmanagementoftimescalestodeliverprojectswithindeadlines
Creationmaintenanceofstructuredsvnrepositories,inclusiveoftaggingandmaintrunk
CreationofmainprojecttrunkusingPHP(OOP)/ZendFrameworkandin-houseCMSsystem
Ensuringcodewasclean,efficientandworkedacrossallmajorbrowsers
AdministratingPleskserversforpreviewsitesanddomainnames,aswellasinstallingrequiredsoftware
Followupwithclientstoensureprojectsmetspecifications,alongsidefixinganybugsthatmayhavebeenfound
Trainingfellowteammembersonpropersvnusageandadvancedtechniques

SkillsAcquired

Betterprojectestimationandtimemanagementskillstodeliverprojectsontimeandwithinbudget
FamiliaritywiththeZendFramework,inclusiveofmodularcodecreationandoptimisationtechniques.
Familiaritywithmod_rewriterulesforSEOoptimisationtechniques
Paymentgatewayintegrations,includingPayPalSagePayforanyE-commercewebsites
Leadershipandpresentationskills

SEPTEMBER2008 – NOVEMBER2010TECHNICALDEVELOPMENTEXECUTIVE

/ SENIOR WEB DEVELOPER

ImJack/Wamey(Leeds)

Creatingtechnicaldocuments(SRS,ERD's,DFD'setc.)asrequiredbyprojectmanager
CreatingrequirednormaliseddatabaseandtablesasperSRS
Creatingmodular(MVC)reusablecode(OOPapproach),withphpDoccommentingforautodocumentation
Ensuringcodewasclean,efficientandworkedacrossallmajorbrowsers
Fixinganybugsfoundduringthetestingcycle,aswellasimplementinganyfeaturerequests
Seniorpositiontohelpanydevelopersfamiliarisethedevelopmentprocessandcode,andassistingincodewherenecessary.

SkillsAcquired

Abilitytoworkwithintimeconstraintsforprojectreleasecandidates,majorandminorversions.
Creationandmaintenanceofsvnrepositoriesandbranches.
Abilitytoworkwithinalargeteam,liaisingwithdesigners,otherdevelopersteamlead,lendingahandwhererequiredtoensuretheteammetdeadlinesandgoals.
FamiliaritywithAPI's,FacebookTwitterintegrationintotheproject.
Optimisationofallcode,includingrefactoringPHP,SMARTYandJavaScript(jQuery)plususageofMySQLoptimisationtechniques,aswellasidentifyingbottleneckswithintheapplication.
Client/ServercommunicationusingflashbasedsocketserverandexistingRMImethods(xml/JSON).

AUGUST 2007 – AUGUST 2008WEB DESIGNER & PROGRAMMER

MEZZO STUDIOS (Leeds)

Creating technical workflow documents and client agreements within the team.
Creating the required database and normalised tables.
Creating the web application using PHP, MySQL, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, SSI and Flash.
Creating a Full CMS backend system for various clients.
Ensuring sites are Search Engine Friendly (SEO) and validated to W3C standards.
Presentation of main site and Full CMS to client.

Skills Acquired

Meeting deadlines as per client request.
Uploading site via FTP and debugging/correcting errors present on live server.
A keen eye for design, creating web graphics and content without a table layout.
Ability to work well under pressure.

JANUARY 2007 – AUGUST 2007WEB DESIGNER & PROGRAMMER

SELF-EMPLOYED FREELANCE WORK

Liaise with clients to clarify their requirements and needs.
Documenting dataflow within the organisation as required (DFD’s, UML, CASE Diagrams, etc).
Creating the required database and normalised tables.
Creating the web application using PHP, MySQL and CSS.
Presentation of main site to client.

Skills Acquired

Creating formal relationships with various clients.
Meeting deadlines as per client request.
Uploading site via FTP and debugging/correcting errors present on live server.
Ability to work well under pressure.

TechnicalSkills

SoftwarePackages

ProgrammingLanguages/Skills

Other

PhpStorm / Sublime Text / Brackets

MSOffice

PHP/SMARTY/ TWIG / SYMFONY2

CORBA

Touch-Typing

(Avg:75wpm95%acc)

Cloud Services

(Rackspace)

Composer /

Bower /

Yeoman / NPM

Vagrant / Ansible /

Puppet / Chef

XML(+WebServices)

OpenSSL

Dreamweaver/

Photoshop/ Flash

/ JavaScript/AJAX
/ jQuery / JSON / AngularJS/ Angular / Backbone / Marionette /
Jasmine / Protractor / Istanbul / ReactJS / Typescript /
D3.js /

HTML5

(CANVAS, AUDIO,

VIDEO, SVG)

/XSL/

CSS / LESS /

SASS + COMPASS

Presentations

Windows(9x,NT,XP,Vista,7,8)

DOS/LINUX /

ShellScripting

ActionScript

Debugging

3DStudioMax2010

Internet

Information

Services(IIS)

SQL/T-SQL /

PL/SQL / NOSQL /

Doctrine (DQL)

DirectX9/OpenGL/OpenAL

VariousOCR’sRSA’s(distinctions)

LAMP & MEAN Stack

VariousSDK’s

(DirectX/

PhysX)

Java / SWING /

CORBA

VisualBasic

CLAIT

SVN / GIT

Perl

Python

MySQL/ MongoDB

C++

MFC

Mail-merge

Oracle 11g

Grunt / Gulp / Brunch / Webpack

Socket.IO /

NodeJS / ExpressJS

Education

2001 – 2005BScComputerScience(ArtificialIntelligenceroute)

NottinghamTrentUniversity

FinalYearProject:

AutomatedParts-Of-Speech(POS)TaggingusingDynamicRecurrentNeuralNetwork(DRNN) – Thisfinalyearprojectideawasbasedupontaggingtheseparatepartsofspeech. Stochastictaggersuseapercentagelibrarytotagthepartsofspeech,whichcanvarydependinguponthecontextinwhichtheyareused. Thisfinalyearprojectusedadifferentapproach;thepastPOStagswerestoredinshort-termmemoryofaRecurrentNeuralNetwork,whichwerethenusedforfuturetags.

2001ALevels

DixonsCityTechnologyCollege

Mathematics,C,PhysicsC,ChemistryD

1999GCSE’s

ShawHouseSchool

Mathematics / A / EnglishLanguage / B
IT / A / EnglishLiterature / B
Chemistry / B / Art / C
Biology / B / French / D
Physics / C / ReligiousEducation / E

Hobbies

Football,basketball,swimming,gym,reading,snooker,pool,TV,games,socialisingandprogramminggames. PlayedamateurfootballwithVentnorSportswithintheTelegraphArgusSaturdayleague,andhavealsoobtainedabrownbeltinShotokanKarate.IwasalsonominatedHouseCaptain,andSchoolFootballTeamCaptainforShawHouseSchool.

References

Employmentandacademicreferencesavailableuponrequest