Education
University of Plymouth
Medialab Arts BSc, First Class, (Digital Media, Programming, Interaction Design) 1994-01-01 - 1998-01-01Newcastle University
Bachelor's Degree, Physics 1989-01-01 - 1991-01-01Work Experience
Starling Bank
Current
Starling Bank
NatWest Commercial and Institutional
2014-10-01 - 2018-12-01
NatWest Commercial and Institutional
designsuperbuild
2011-09-01 - 2014-09-01
designsuperbuild
DGTL
2010-01-01 - 2011-08-01
DGTL
Phorm
2007-10-01 - 2010-01-01
Phorm
Yahoo
2002-09-01 - 2007-09-01
Yahoo
specialmoves
1999-01-01 - 2001-11-01
specialmoves
Various
1993-01-01 - 1999-01-01
Various
Skills
Summary
Accomplished Senior Developer & Technical Director/Manager with 20 years experience of web & digital technologies. Extensive knowledge of front & backend web development with special interest in JavaScript (ES6, React, Flux/Redux, Node, Angular, Backbone, JQuery), Ruby (Ruby on Rails, Sinatra) and Data Visualisation with D3. Equally comfortable rapidly developing MVPs or working on at-scale applications. Demonstrable experience working across a full spectrum of tech firms from early stage startups to multinational web properties such as Yahoo!, running multi-disciplinary teams (local, remote or hybrid) that deliver high quality work in high pressure environments. Most recent projects: 18 months building 3 large client-side applications with RESTful backend APIs using end to end JavaScript stacks of Backbone/Angular/D3/Node/NoSQL. Key Skills: - Management Team Building, Agile, Kanban, Digital Strategy, Digital Media, Online Advertising, Ad Networks, Operations - Frontend Web Development JavaScript, Backbone, Angular, D3, HTML, CS, SASS, Grunt, Bootstrap - Backend Web Development JavaScript/Node, Ruby/Ruby On Rails, SQL, NoSQL, Deployment/Scaling/Performance Testing - Test Driven Development, Behaviour Driven Development, Mocha, Testium, Protractor, Cucumber, Rspec, Capybara Github: https://github.com/dburrows Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/users/58245/david-burrows