Kyle Welsby

Senior Software Engineer

Department for Education•  February 2020 - Present

Building tools to allow teachers to choose and plan high quality verified lessons for students. ➢ Written a presentation merger that combines multiple presentation files into one single presentation document. ➢ Maintain open source GOV.UK code on GitHub. ✪ Ruby on Rails ✪ COVID-19

Senior Software Engineer

MAG-O•  September 2019 - December 2019

Collaborate with teams to produce enhanced solutions for airport visitors with digital technology. Implement Braintree Payments user interface into various applications using native Web Components. ✪ Transferred easy-implement easy-to-understand component to new and existing projects with successful documentation automatically produced from source code.

Senior Software Engineer

FreeAgent•  January 2019 - June 2019

Released Open Banking integrations as one of the first external providers in the country whilst maintaining existing banking integrations with Yodlee. ✪ Introduced configuration with different Open Banking Account Servicing Payment Service Providers. Technologies used: Ruby on Rails, Ruby, RSpec, Jenkins, OpenBanking, Yodlee.

Software Engineer

Co-op•  August 2018 - October 2018

Aided funeral care department design digital solutions for Guardian product. Produced some of the first digital pubic customer-facing products. ✪ Created a private frontend community and proposed best-practices later included in design systems and component libraries.

Senior Software Engineer

Universal Data Management•  August 2016 - April 2018

Oversaw globally-distributed team including developer, contractor, and two engineers working on various business requirements. Devised and executed product addressing key logic core domain issues. ✪ Conducted daily stand-up, handing over the Asian team to western team. ✪ Hired design services producing wireframes and final UI designs. Technologies used: Vue.js, PostCSS, WebPack, Ruby on Rails, Socket.io.

Software Engineer

XING•  March 2014 - April 2014

Assisted the build of the front-end experience of an analytical product from the Data Science team. Using AngularJS as a core framework along side other components to test, build, and deploy the project.

Software Engineer

On the Beach Holidays•  October 2010 - November 2012

Part of a large Agile/Kanban development team based in Manchester developing and maintaining one of the UK's top Holiday websites. Working closely with other developers using AGILE and Kanban practices. The role allows freedom to create an array of different skills to do with web development. Technologies used: Ruby on Rails, jQuery, Ruby.