Chris Coates

I am a Senior Software Engineer working on customer facing and internal web apps for a weight loss organisation. I am passionate about delivering a highly responsive and intuitive UI to bring an exceptional experience and functionality to the end user. I am experienced in implementing software design patterns to solve commonly occurring problems and using SOLID principles to produce enterprise level software. I live, sleep and breathe code and am passionate about using my skills to create amazing applications.

Projects

• Feature-rich WebApp & Mobile App for people on a journey to achieve weight loss.
• Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, ASP.NET 6.0, React, MongoDB, Elastic, SQL Server, Micro Services, Octopus Deploy, Azure.

• WebApp for financial advisers, admin and company owners to process clients' financial portfolios.
• Visual Studio, ASP.NET Core, Razor, MVC, SQL Server, Azure Active Directory, Octopus Deploy, Azure.

• Application for Randomising Patients on a clinical trial. Full platform built from the ground up.
• Visual Studio, ASP.NET Core, Razor, MVC, SQL Server, Azure Active Directory, Octopus Deploy, Azure

• An Android App and Web Reporting App to help fight Malaria in Sub Saharan Africa.
• Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Angular, Xamarin, NUnit, TDD & BDD, Octopus Deploy, Azure

• A mobile application for iOS and Android used to supply and dispense medication.
• Visual Studio, Xamarin Studio, Eclipse, NUnit, SQL Server, IBM Mobile first platform. Delivered to Apple & Google App Stores.

Education

Languages & Tools

• ASP.NET full & ASP.NET Core, React, Rails, XCode, Node, Angular, EF & EF Core, MongoDB, SQL Server
• Docker, Kubernetes
• C#, Javascript, Ruby, Swift
• Azure, Azure Active Directory, Application Insights, Blue/Green Deployments (Using Slots)
• Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Xcode, Eclipse
• TeamCity, Jenkins, Octopus Deploy, Proget
• NUnit, XUnit, SpecFlow, XCTest, RSpec, Capybara, Jasmine, Karma, Protractor
• Releasing to Apple & Google App Stores

• Git, GitFlow, Github, BitBucket, VSTS
• Agile Development & Scrum
• Cross Functional Teams
• Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment

Skills

• Fully immerse myself into quickly learning new languages, frameworks and technology. Pair programming to maximise potential. Regular attender of Nottingham Meetups to keep abreast of new tech and opportunity to strengthen my knowledge.
• Curious nature with a passion to embrace and learn new technologies and solutions to provide great experiences for the end user.

• Articulate ideas and complex concepts to members of the team including our distributed team working in Minsk and Hyderabad. Feedback from team and pair partners have noted my ability to present, explain and discuss ideas and strategies clearly.
• Commitment to working in an Agile environment. Have scrum mastered three projects where I have led stand-ups, sprint planning and retros.

• I thrive on succeeding as part of a team. I work on personal projects and spend time researching new technologies to enrich the stack.
• Strong believer in a can-do attitude. Passionate about SOLID principles and producing clean code.

Interests

• Spending time with family & friends
• Drinking coffee
• Cooking & eating good food
• Brewing my own beer (I do a good IPA )
• Playing & watching sport
• Gardening
• Listening to music & going to gigs