Kyle Beattie
Engineer
About
I am a proficient software engineer currently employed at Wonde, where I specialize in maintaining and enhancing large-scale codebases. My role also involves contributing to the development of new systems from the ground up. On a daily basis, I work with PHP, leveraging the Laravel framework and MySQL to deliver robust and efficient solutions.
Associate Software Engineer.
Skilled in front-end and back-end development as well as database querying languages, I possess the expertise to design and implement comprehensive full-stack solutions.
- City: Liverpool, UK
- Degree: BSc Computer Science
Building on my university foundation and two years of professional experience, I have developed into a reliable team player who consistently delivers value throughout the lifecycle of projects.
Skills
I am competent in the following languages, libraries, technologies, and frameworks:
Education
Full Stack Devlopment
I graduated from the traineeship after delivering two real world projects to meet specification, building on a solid foundation of skills across front end, back end, and database technologies.
- IT Career Switch
- Jan 2024 - August 2024
BSc Computer Science (1st class)
I gradudated in 2021 with first class honours. The course content was directed towards teaching me practical skills as well as theoretical Computer Science knowledge.
- Liverpool John Moores University
- September 2018 - May 2021
Professional Experience
Associate Software Engineer
Responsibilities:
Offer expert-level guidance and troubleshooting assistance to customers using our API, ensuring smooth integration and resolving any technical challenges in a timely manner.
Work closely with senior engineers throughout the development lifecycle, from planning to deployment, ensuring new features are delivered on time and align with business goals.
Play an active role in the upkeep, optimisation, and refactoring of the company’s infrastructure and codebase, ensuring it remains scalable, efficient, and reliable for an exceptional customer experience.
Participate in rigorous testing of new features, ensuring high-quality standards are met before deployment, and provide feedback to enhance the overall functionality.
Take part in the design, development, and refinement of both new and existing software, applying best practices to ensure maintainability, performance, and scalability.
Contribute to shared codebases, ensuring consistent adherence to coding standards and practices across the team, fostering a collaborative and cohesive engineering environment.
- Wonde
- November 2024 - Current Role
Web Developer
I was tasked with designing and developing a website for GB Create. A
specification was given by the client, and I designed, implemented and maintained the site. The
website was built using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP.
I have also developed a company directory app which provides a front end interface for users to
perform CRUD operations on the company database.
- GB Create
- December 2022 - March 2023, March 2024 - November 2024
Graduate IT Incident Manager
I was hired on the DXC graduate scheme and assigned the role of IT Incident
manager. My duties included: Creating/presenting reports for clients,
working with technical teams to fix reported IT incidents, providing
assistance in fixing incidents, tracking and logging incidents, assigning
incidents to relevant teams, daily internal reporting, creating service
improvement plans with clients, maintaining strong client relationships.
I resigned as I wanted to pursue a more technical role. However, this client
facing role has provided me with valuable new people and management skills
that I will be able to utilise throughout my career.
- DXC Technology
- September 2023 - March 2024
SWQA Compatibility Tester
I was temporarily employed on multiple contracts as part of an SWQA (Software Quality Assurance) team to test compatibility on new PlayStation 4 and 5 firmware. This role saw me work as part of a team to perform test cases on different PS4, PS5 and PSVR titles to look for any compatibility issues with the new firmware. I was employed four times in this role in temporary contracts.
- Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
- 2020 - 2023 (temporary contracts)
Portfolio
Gazetteer
Company Directory
redditEPL
Thai Kicks Ecommerce
CodeTube
React Weather
Laravel CRUD Demo
Contact
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