Hi, I'm Jack

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Frontend Engineer

I am a Frontend Software Engineer based in the UK. For the past 7 years, I have been employed as a Frontend Software Engineer at Codeweavers Ltd. creating market-leading software for the automotive industry. During my time at Codeweavers, I have worked with various clients such as Mercedes, Volvo and BMW as well as partaking in my own personal projects.


Experience

Lead Software Engineer

Codeweavers

Advanced to the role of Lead Software Engineer at Codeweavers, where I took on additional responsibilities such as managing a small team of developers, and became more actively involved in the recruitment process.

Personal highlight: Successfully migrated the frontend platform application from self-hosted IIS servers to the cloud using AWS Lambda, improving scalability and performance.

Senior Software Engineer

Codeweavers

In March 2023 I returned to Codeweavers as a Senior Frontend Engineer. I began expanding my skills leading other developers by heading a mob within the Digital Retail Store domain.

Personal highlight: Led the 2023 frontend developer induction program, which included training new developers on the company's best practices and coding standards. This was the first structured induction program created at Codeweavers and all material needed to be created from scratch following the "Teaching from the back of the room" concept.

Full Stack Engineer

One Iota

I started a job in October 2022 working as a Full Stack Engineer at One iota. One iota creates seamless shopping journeys for mobile and in-store.

Personal highlight: Developed an innovative kiosk application for Hugo Boss that utilizes RFID technology integrated with clothing items. This application enhances the shopping experience by providing detailed product information when items are brought near the kiosk.

Web Application Developer

Codeweavers

My journey began in September 2017 working as a Web Application Developer at Codeweavers. Codeweavers creates market leading finance software for the automotive industry.

Personal highlight: Being offered a position on a full time degree level apprenticeship in Software Engineering. This apprenticeship was a 4 year course that included a (BSc) Degree in Digital Solutions and Technology (Software Engineering).


Projects

Wolow

Wolow is a Wake-on-LAN app that remotely powers on computers and provides features like status checks, shutdown, reboot, sleep, and lock.

Portfolio

Jack Baker Portfolio showcases personal projects, along with experience and education, all presented in a clean, modern design.

Pulse

Pulse analyzes songs using the Spotify API, providing detailed metadata and insights for any track in Spotify’s database.

RxJS Http Client

RxJS Http Client is a lightweight, open-source wrapper around ES6 Fetch that uses RxJS for HTTP requests, returning responses as observables.

Education

Digital Technology and Solutions

Staffordshire University

I attended Staffordshire University and graduated with a first class BSc (Hons) Digital & Technology Solutions Degree. During this degree I studied the Software Engineer role.

Sept 2017 - Mar 2021


Contact

Feel free to ask me any question about working together or a general enquiry.