A job board, storefront and marketing site for the largest family-run recruitment company. I built the Next.js front end and the Python APIs behind them, and led their maintenance and support for a number of years.
Hi, I'm Chester
A full-stack developer who likes building things properly.
- Current position
- Lead Full Stack Developer at Tangent
- Everyday stack
- Next.js · PHP · Symfony · .Net · Docker · Kubernetes
- Education
- BSc Computer Science, Newcastle (First)
- Open to
- Lead / Senior roles, UK remote
About
“I build across the stack, from Next.js on Vercel to PHP on Kubernetes. I choose the cloud services for new projects and optimise existing ones to cut costs. I work with clients directly to scope the work, estimate it and plan it into sprints with the team.”
- 6+ Years in industry building websites / webapps
- 37 Websites and web apps released
- 4 Cloud Platforms used for various projects
- 8 Developers led at Tangent
Featured work
All projects
Web app
Wishlist
2023
A application for people to create and share wishlists with their families. I created the site using Symfony with Twig templates and a Valkey caching layer to support the site with higher demand.
A training site that allows learners and businesses to purchase training for SAP products. I worked on general maintenance as well as rewriting the entire project to modernise the underlying framework.
An agency that designs and develops experiences and digital products for enterprise. I helped maintain the site by creating new components, implementing integrations and handling content migrations.
Brave Bison are a media, marketing and technology company. I worked on their marketing website by creating components with various scroll, hover and click animations as well as overall security maintenance.
An internal system used by a window-cleaning business to track their customer addresses, rounds, cleans, staff and payments. I approached the company to offer a solution to modernise their workflow and reduce administration costs.
Experience
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2020–present
Lead Developer at
Tangent (opens in a new tab), Newcastle
Lead multiple accounts and completed many projects from the initial client requirements through to estimation, sprint planning and finally go-live.
- Integrated with several Content Management Systems such as Contentful, Umbraco and ContentStack
- Optimised client's cloud platforms to ensure the best fitting services were used to save on cost without compromising performance.
- Introduced Sentry to the team and rolled it out to highlight issues that were previously hidden to developers.
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2019
Full Stack Developer at clean-my-windows (opens in a new tab), Grantham
Built the internal operations platform the business runs on, in a team of two.
- Saved over 50% of weekly admin time by tracking every clean, round sheet and customer account in one system.
- In daily use since September 2019, and estimated to save a further 50 hours on tax-return figures.
- Worked directly with the director, shipping in short iterations against their specification.
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2018
Full Stack Developer at
Arbicon (opens in a new tab), Peterborough
Rebuilt the company website to optimise for performance and SEO best practices.
- Rewrote the site in a three-week pair-programming project, improving load times and search rankings.
- Introduced a custom CMS to allow staff to manage the site's content themselves.
- Configured and maintained the underlying services to ensure they are kept up to date with the latest vulnerability patches.
Technologies
Languages
Frameworks
Data
Infrastructure
Training, conferences and certifications
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Certification
Umbraco Professional
2026
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Certification
Claude Certified Developer - Foundations
2026
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Training
People Management
2024
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Conference
React Advanced
2023
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Certification
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
2023
Education
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2017–2020
BSc Computer Science
Newcastle University
- Result
- First Class Honours
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2015–2017
A levels
Sleaford Joint Sixth Form
- Computer Science
- A
- Electronics
- A
- Extended Project
- A*
- Maths
- C