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"location": "Southend, Essex", | ||
"citizenship": "British", | ||
"email": "[email protected]", | ||
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"text": "linkedin.com/in/dean-james-74860014" | ||
"url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dean-james-5b19a7324", | ||
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"url": "http://cv.deanj.co.uk", | ||
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"githubUrl": "https://github.com/xurion/cv", | ||
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"Hi! I'm Dean. I'm a passionate, customer-focused and quality-first software development manager (SDM), focusing on quality engineering with a broad range of skills. I have more than fifteen years experience in delivering business goals in a quality-driven Agile way, as well as nurturing teams to become the best delivery-focused units they can be.", | ||
"Hi! I'm Dean. I'm a passionate, customer-focused and quality-first software engineering manager, focusing on quality engineering with a broad range of skills. I have more than fifteen years experience in delivering business goals in a quality-driven Agile way, as well as nurturing teams to become the best delivery-focused units they can be.", | ||
"I pride myself on enabling and guiding evolution at the team level, consistently striving for a high standard of work, being good-natured, outgoing and having a good sense of humour." | ||
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"TypeScript, JavaScript, JSX", | ||
"React, Redux", | ||
"Jest, React Testing Library", | ||
"Jest, React Testing Library, Mocha, Jasmine, Chai", | ||
"Playwright, Cypress, WebdriverIO", | ||
"Behaviour-driven development (BDD)", | ||
"Test-driven development (TDD)", | ||
"Behaviour & test-driven development (BDD / TDD)", | ||
"Gherkin / Cucumber", | ||
"CI / CD", | ||
"Styled Components", | ||
"CSS, LESS, SASS/SCSS", | ||
"Continuous integration & deployment", | ||
"Tailwind, Styled Components", | ||
"CSS, LESS, SCSS", | ||
"Node", | ||
"Docker", | ||
"NPM / Yarn", | ||
"Photoshop", | ||
"SOLID principles", | ||
"Trunk based development", | ||
"Splunk, Grafana, Datadog" | ||
], | ||
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"Gherkin scenario and BDD expert", | ||
"Lean Kanban consultant", | ||
"Probabilistic forecaster", | ||
"Technical excellence evangelist", | ||
"Gherkin scenario and BDD expertise", | ||
"Lean Kanban evangelism", | ||
"Probabilistic forecasting", | ||
"Quality-first focus", | ||
"Advocate for transparent teams", | ||
"Nurturer of safe-to-fail and psychologically safe cultures", | ||
"Team transparency advocate", | ||
"Safe-to-fail and psychologically safe nurturer", | ||
"Analyser of all things measurable", | ||
"Minimum viable product & time to market advisor" | ||
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"me": [ | ||
"Software engineering has always been one of my core passions.", | ||
"For the past decade I have focused heavily on the sustainable development of test-validated software at sustained pace. I'm a data-driven thinker and I use my strong Agile analytical and organisational skills to drive technically excellent and sustainable solutions that my team and I build." | ||
"For well over a decade, I have focused heavily on the sustainable development of test-validated software at sustained pace. I'm a data-driven thinker and I use my strong Agile analytical and organisational skills to drive technically excellent and sustainable solutions that my team and I build." | ||
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"I am able to work on my own, but I have almost always found that teamwork trumps all silo-based work.", | ||
"I am able to work on my own, but I believe teamwork trumps almost all siloed approaches.", | ||
"I am lively, outgoing and approachable. I have a passion for video games (especially RPGs), developing software on pet projects (Lua is a hobby of mine!) and cooking in my custom-built kitchen, having wanted to be a chef when I was younger (before I got my hands on a PC!).", | ||
"I'm a fan of electronic music and enjoy attending music festivals.", | ||
"My person-to-person and written skills are excellent and I always try to approach my work with enthusiasm and adaptability." | ||
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"jobTitle": "SDM (Software Development Manager)", | ||
"jobTitle": "Software Engineering Manager", | ||
"otherTitles": ["Senior Software Development Engineer III"], | ||
"companyName": "Tesco Technology", | ||
"companyLogo": "tesco.png", | ||
"startDate": 1599469200000, | ||
"about": [ | ||
"Lead a team tasked with creating and maintaining various in-store till systems, including self checkout and attended tills whilst supporting UK production stores via a housekeeping initiative.", | ||
"New till systems were rolled out to over 30,000 tills running in nearly 3,400 stores across the UK. This system severed a dependency on a third party EPOS solution." | ||
"New till systems were rolled out to over 35,000 tills running in nearly 3,400 stores across the UK, severing a costly dependency on a third party EPOS solution." | ||
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"A high level of unit test coverage is in place using Jest, as well as an end-to-end test setup utilising UI-based test frameworks, such as Cypress. As the project matured, my team identified the need to convert the older Cypress tests into a new Playwright suite to improve the developer experience, reduce test complexity and increase productivity.", | ||
"Systems are written in TypeScript using React, Redux, GraphQL, Node & Docker, taking advantage of trunk-based development, using an Azure continuous integration pipeline." | ||
"A high level of unit test coverage is in place using Jest, as well as an end-to-end test setup utilising Playwright. As the project matured, I lead the need to evolve our ways of working in many different areas, including production support as well as how we work internally with other teams.", | ||
"Systems are written in TypeScript using React, Redux, Node & Docker, taking advantage of trunk-based development with an Azure continuous integration pipeline." | ||
] | ||
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