<aside> 💡 What: A written record of my work and achievements

Why: A reminder which can assist overcoming impostor syndrome, it may also help job hunting and future salary negotiations.

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2025

I have been directly helping a colleague called Clayton on friday afternoons, in my 10% free time this year, pairing with him to build a “feeds backend” microservice. He is developing as an engineer, and learning what good code looks like.

I epic conducted the creation of a staged progress bar, that changes stage through the users journey on a form dependent on which page they are on. The bar was responsive to screen width moving the label central on mobile and its state was dynamic to a finish / submission page which was variable. I supported a mid level engineer refactor his initial attempt with a mui staged progress bar component to a custom version using emotion styling, created tickets and arranged with the product manager and designer to replicate their figma design in code.

Created an alert rule in Sentry, which fired when we went past an event threshold, this then sent a slack notification to a workplace and called a webhook. The webhook called one of our services with the event id, this service, named capture, then made a call to sentry to get the issue id for the given event and used that issue id to make up to 50 paginated requests to sentry for error events for that issue i.e. 5000 possible error events. Capture then extracted the visitor id (a unique id of a user on the page), and queried the databse to compare which visitor ids were not present on a submission, which allowed us to calculate a count and percentage of visitors that did not have a submission - which meant we were able to decode which sentry issues were most important / valuable to resolve (submission blocking).

Cutting 37 mins from one of the production build times (and 25mins from the other) by building an API on the form building service and returning forms which had only had 10+ submissions in the last 30 days. Then using that api in the getStaticProps function of the Next app (i.e. at build time).

Getting Appointment Booking over the line has lead to a stream of steady shout out’s

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2024