Daniel Whitston

Chief Technology Officer

Policy in practice•  November 2018 - August 2020

Built an in-house development team to take over from outsourced remote developers, while maintaining and continuing development on production services and recreating the underlying infrastructure. Changed job title in June 2019 to match responsibilities. - Recruited and managed a team of 5 developers - Worked with the team to improve code quality, infrastructure, and their own capabilities, and to develop peer support and self-management - Planned, ran, and evaluated development sprints - Managed and delivered on the technology roadmap - Minimised, resolved, analysed and learned from service incidents - Safeguarded the company’s information security - Evaluated new systems and infrastructure, and gradually rearchitected systems to improve performance, resilience and flexibility - Wrote specifications and costings for software development projects - Supported sales and operations staff in carrying out their roles, with regular client contact, internal support, and product usage analytics - Advised the wider organisation on technology decisions - JavaScript, Node.js, TypeScript, Angular, MySQL, PostgreSQL, GitHub, AWS, CircleCI and Jira

Software Engineer

Homeflow•  July 2017 - November 2018

Mid-level developer, primarily working on a panoply of Rails back end monoliths (versions 2, 3, 4, 5), with dozens of Linux servers and MySQL databases. Maintained and fixed large existing code bases with millions of active users and hundreds of clients; created new functionality through regular discussion and review with clients and partners; implemented Rails major version upgrades; built new applications; improved existing CI processes.