👨‍💻 CHRISTOPHER MELVILLE

Full stack software engineer

I am a full stack javascript engineer with a specialism in frontend UI/UX development. I have experience across a range of industries building everything from pixel perfect marketing websites, rich data-vis dashboards and complex REST based applications.

My spare time is spent in music tech & woodcrafting.

Favourite technologies 

Javascript · Typescript · React · React Native · Node · AWS · SASS · Gatsby · GraphQL · Jest

Some live work

• GoCompare - Landlord Insurance

• GoCompare - Young Entrepreneurs

• Google - Master Margarita

• Financial Times - Undiscovered Japan

• Google - Google Telecoms

• The Famous Grouse - Portugal promotions

• The Brightmile App

• CYBG - Mortgage AIP

• much more

Industries

Textiles · Whisky · Travel commerce · Banking · SEO · Tech startups · Creative agency · Marine design · Civil engineering

Brands

Google · Skyscanner · GoCompare · CYBG · Totally money · The famouse Grouse · Financial Times · Coats

Experience

• 🏭 Coats Group - Senior UI/UX Developer

  • Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Oct 2019 - Apr 2020

    Architected new UI’s for their colour physics laboratory and customer order hub

• 🥃 Edrington - Lead Front End Developer

  • Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Jul – Oct 2019

    Lead on Macallans US e-commerce application and microsites for The Famous Grouse

• ✈️ Skyscanner - Full Stack Engineer

  • Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 󠁢󠁳󠁣Jan 2019 – Jul 2019

    Worked on their internal tools for employee colaboration

• 🏦 CYBG - React JS developer

  • Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Oct 2018 – Jan 2019

    Worked on their mortgage and loans online application apps

• 🏎️ Brightmile - Front End Developer

  • London 🇬🇧󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Jun 2018 – Oct 2018

    Made their data rich management dashboard & website

• 🗞️ Kaizen (Content Marketing) - Front End Developer

  • London 🇬🇧 Apr 2018 – Jun 2018

    Created heaps of microsite for their clients PR stories. Fun, shareable and interactive was the name of the game!

• 🛥️ AhoyClub - Full Stack Developer

  • Sydney 🇦🇺 Jan 2018 – Mar 2018

    Worked on their ‘AirBnB of the super yacht world’ e-commerce app

• 🎶 Ambie - Full Stack Developer

  • London 🇬🇧 May 2017 – Jan 2018

    Worked on their ‘Spotify for businesses’ music delivery system & associated web dashboards

• 👻 PHANTOM - Creative Developer

  • London 🇬🇧 Apr 2016 – May 2017

    Agency side website design and build for their biggest brands - Google & FT

• 🌊 Global Maritime - Project Engineer

  • Aberdeen 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 󠁴󠁿Aug 2013 – Jul 2015

    Worked with their GMOOR flagship oil and gas marine engineering software (C# and Python)

• 👷‍♂️ SRG - Mining Project Engineer

  • Western Australia 🇦🇺 Aug 2011 – Sep 2013

    Project design engineer for geotechnic operations in various dusty mine sites around Oz

Education

• AWS Certified Developer @ Cloud Academy (in progress)

• UX fundamentals @ Code Clan Glasgow

• MSc Software Development @ Glasgow University

• BSc(Hons) Environmental Civil Engineering @ Caledonian University

• Loads of practical learning on Udemy, Eggheads, Code Academy, A Cloud Guru, Stackoverflow and also just DoingThingsTheHardWay.com™

On the wide web

• Github

• Soundcloud

• Linkedin

Contact

• christopher.melville@me.com

Thanks for stopping by! 👋