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Kyle Donaldson

Kyle Donaldson

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Full Stack Software Engineer
Gateshead, United Kingdom

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Flexible work
Starting at USD125K/hour

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    Software Engineer
    Bede Gaming Ltd
    Jan 2019 - May 2022 (3 years 5 months)
    - Worked as part of a feature team, fixing bugs and creating new features based upon customer requirements. Two week scrums - daily standup meetings, bi-weekly retros, planning sessions, etc as per the agile methodology. -Heavy focus on developing, maintaining and testing RESTful APIs. Our APIs are a core product that we ship to customers, for them to then plug their own systems into. -Taught myself Angular in my spare time to fill a skill gap in my Guild/Tribe. Became the top-contributing code owner for our Player Management software (written in Angular), ran structured presentations through Hangouts with new and existing staff to share my knowledge. -Took ownership of features - wrote extensive documentation, created and maintained tes
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    Software Development Consultant
    OpenCast Software Ltd
    Aug 2018 - Dec 2018 (5 months)
    - Contracted out to the NHS (National Health Service) Business Services Authority. -Created features and bug fixes for government-used software using Oracle, C, SQL. -Took the initiative to implement a structured release process for their medical benefits software whilst adhering to their standards and time constraints. Created much-needed and overdue documentation for users, implemented versioning and an automated test suite for their dated software. -Provided support for the large internal and external user base. -Coded and executed a large scale data migration as part of our efforts to modernise their software.
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    Junior Software Developer
    Datatrial Ltd
    Aug 2016 - Aug 2018 (2 years 1 month)
    - Maintained and wrote new features/fixes for our Clinical Data Management and Reporting software, NowEDC. Due to the extensive approval process required in this industry, I was thoroughly involved in the life cycle of code changes within this business. -Tracked all bugs and features through JIRA, wrote and reviewed both automated and manual test scripts, manually built and deployed releases. -I also began the process of implementing continuous deployment within the business by personally setting up TeamCity and OctopusDeploy, to prove its efficacy to higher ups. -Took the initiative to develop in-house software solutions to speed up many of the older, slower processes. This included a User Requirement and Acceptance Criteria document ge
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    Apprentice Software Developer
    Tidy International
    Oct 2015 - Aug 2016 (11 months)
    - Whilst working, I attained a Level 3 Diploma in Software Development and a Level 3 Advanced Diploma in Systems and Principles, comfortably getting top marks in every module. -Developed small features and bug fixes for Tidy's flagship project management software, TidyWork. -Took the initiative to build lightweight add-ons using the software's API to optimise end-user tasks, such as a phone app to allow real-time tracking of tasks. -Provided second-line support to UK customers via both phone call and online tickets
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    Level 2 Edexcel Award Algebra.
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    Level 3 Diploma in Software Development
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    Level 3 Advanced Diploma in Systems and Principles