David Sauntson

Intro

A talented and enthusiastic front end developer with eight years’ commercial experience and an MSc in Software Engineering. Skilled and experienced at creating high fidelity front end builds, content managed sites, performant React/Redux and .NET MVC web applications.

My pronouns are he/him.

Things I have worked on

Education

  • MSc Software Engineering, 2010 - 2012, University of Westminster
  • BSc (Hons) Chemistry, 2001 - 2004, University of Durham

Career

Senior Front End Developer - Citizens Advice

August 2020 onwards

Working on a project to replace our current episerver powered website with a Contentful / Ruby on Rails app. Developing and maintaining a design system to ensure consistency across all new Citizens Advice web sites and apps.

Director - Landd Agency & David Sauntson Ltd

October 2015 - August 2020

Acting as a contractor for various companies. Highlights include:

  • working for Nassari 360 Ltd, where I:
    • architected, built and delivered an enterprise level software as a service subscription application, hosted in Azure
    • created a microsite generating .NET MVC Core 2 application
    • created a React / Redux microsite template, hosted in Azure
    • used BitBucket pipelines and nightwatch.js to automate deployment and testing
  • working for Positive Technology, where I:
    • created a react / redux live matchday scorecard for Lord's Cricket
    • built a front end template and component library, including AMP templates, for DHL
  • working for Reed Exhibitions, where I:
    • refactored the front end build stack to use node, npm, grunt
    • implemented continuous integration and deployment using Jenkins
    • wrote automated tests for crucial javascript modules
    • introduced Jira to control team workflow and log deployments
  • working for PwC, where I:
    • created a front end architecture for a large web application build using node,grunt, SASS, BEM
    • decomposed designs into functional components, modules and templates and created a folder structure that reflected these elements

Senior Developer - Positive Technology

January 2014 - September 2015

Assumed a broader range of development responsibilities, including leading on small to medium sized web build projects.

Junior Developer - Positive Technology

October 2012 - January 2014

Assisted on a variety of small - medium sized web sites using .NET and Kenitco CMS.