Work
Former co-founder and CTO of beacon.by. Over the course of 10 years we built the company from an idea into a profitable business. Since selling the company in early 2024, I am available for contract work.
Below are a selection of notable projects where I have been technical lead.
Lead Magnet / PDF editor
Drag and drop editor with a focus on ease of use.
Approx 50,000 users produced over 200,000 documents with this tool.
Beacon.by backend
Handling Stripe Subscriptions, auth, user dashboard and serving user content. Initial version built with Laravel4 and continutally upgraded to latest version.
Beacon.by user dashboard
Driven by need to refresh legacy dashboard, adding more interactivity and faster loading times.
Automatic SSL certs for user domains
Based around LetsEncrypt and Certbot. Moving service inhouse significantly reduced monthly costs.
Generate PDF from user generated web content
Microservice for generating PDF. Robust and scalable handling 10,000s requests per day.
Server Admin
Over the course of my career I have provisioned countless Linux based servers. With a core focus on being secure, stable and scalable. The main Beacon server effortlessly handled the onslaught of 10,000s of new users during an AppSumo partnership deal.
Browser based games
Hungry sheep - honorable mention React Jam Spring 2024
I love to indulge my creative urges and create games, mostly in javascript. I also have experience with Phaser.js and Pico8.
Dev.to Challenge
Time for something a little more creative.
Spent an afternoon deep diving into CSS animations.
Dev.to Front End Challenge: 🥇1st Place
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