Daniel Shaw

An early stage startup, a challenging but rewarding role with exposure to a range of technologies and best practices. In this role I am exposed to a lot of languages and frameworks, such TypeScript, NestJS, PHP and Laravel. Whilst working with both a traditional monolithic system and on the rearchitecture of a distributed cloud-based service system. I have learnt practices such as TDD (red-green), observability, feature flags and A/B experiments.

Entered the world of FinTech. In this role I strenghtened my knowledge of AWS, functional programming and frameworks. One of my key accomplishments was implementing re-usable AWS Transcribe for client side transcription.

An exciting oppurtunity to empower academics and captivate students with interactive learning through the use of technology. More exposure to different web technologies and frameworks, AWS, transcription, VR and game development. With the outbreak of Covid in April 2020, I was a taskforce team leader to transition paper-based final exams to a digital proctorored LMS based exam. I had 8 staff members from various departments placed under me to coordinate this transition.

The very start of my professional career, outside of a hobby or odd project for a friend. From the first day I was learning to work with external clients, integrating with a multitude of APIs, mobile app development and learning basic/intermediates of system and database design. I migrated and consolidated multiple legacy systems to a new platform. This role taught me one of the most valuable lessons: Not every problem requires a code solution. Towards the end of my tenure I learnt the basics of management in which I hired and upskilled several engineers.