JDE

$ whoami

Hi, I'm Jonathan.

A full-stack developer & software engineer based in Barry, South Wales - I build and ship real things for real people.

open to new roles

$ cat about.md

Background

I'm a full-stack developer and software engineer based in Barry, South Wales. I studied Computer Science at the University of St Andrews — three years in, on the Dean's List, with a faculty medal for advanced programming — before stepping away to build things full-time.

Since then I've helped set up a National Lottery-funded organisation, interned building web tools for one of the UK's largest students' associations, and taken on freelance work. Today I'm Director of Technical Operations at a community interest company - and I'm open to my next role.

languages

  • Java
  • C
  • Rust
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • Python

frameworks

  • React
  • Next.js
  • Astro
  • Node.js

tools

  • Git / GitHub
  • Docker
  • PostgreSQL
  • Linux

$ cat facts.txt

education

BSc Computer Science - University of St Andrews

status

3 years completed · degree incomplete

honours

Dean's List · medal for CS2006 Advanced Programming

a-levels

4 x A* - Maths, Further Maths, Physics, CS

now

Director - Technical Operations, Hope Bags C.I.C.

$ ls projects/

Selected work

Hope Bags Foundation live site

live · in production

Hope Bags Foundation

The live website for a National Lottery-funded community interest company, built in partnership with the Mayor of London. I lead the technical side - design, build, deploy and maintain the production site.

  • Astro
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • HTML/CSS
Visit the live site

$ cat experience.log

Experience

Director - Technical Operations

Hope Bags C.I.C. · Barry, South Wales

I manage the origanition's web presence end to end initial-scale building and maintaining the production site, and handling deployment and the technical operations behind a National Lottery-funded community interest company.

Nov 2023 - Present

Website Developer Intern

St Andrews Students' Association · St Andrews, Scotland

Built and maintained web tools and pages for one of the UK's largest students' associations, working across the stack in a small team.

Aug 2023 - Aug 2024

$ ./contact.sh

Let's talk.

Open to full-time roles and interesting freelance work. The fastest way to reach me is email.