Profile
Spencer Newton
Senior Software Engineer
M.Phys Space Science and Robotics
Skills
- HTML,Â
- Javascript,Â
- CSS,Â
- React,Â
- Node,Â
- Typescript,Â
- NextJS,Â
- Remix,Â
- SASS,Â
- Styled Components,Â
- Tailwind,Â
- GraphQL,Â
- REST,Â
- SQL,Â
- Docker,Â
- Teamcity,Â
- Concourse,Â
- Octopus,Â
- CMS Systems (Contentstack),Â
- PaaS Systems (Cloudfoundry),Â
- Test Driven Development,Â
- Project Planning,Â
- Technical Leadership,Â
- Software Design,Â
- C,Â
- C++,Â
- Java,Â
- C#,Â
- .Net,Â
- Unity,Â
- Ditto,Â
- Python,Â
- Bidoof,Â
- Bash,Â
- OpenCV,Â
- Fortran,Â
- Matlab,Â
Interests
- Web Development
- Game Development
- Graphics Programming
- Video Games
- Climbing / Bouldering
- Running / Hiking
- Reading
Profile
A highly focused and dedicated Software Engineer, with a Masters Degree in Physics and Computer Science and 5+ years experience working in software engineering teams. Has an analytical and logical way of thinking, enjoys the aspect of problem-solving with others using modern technology, and is keen to apply modern technology in real-world applications.
Experienced in working on a variety of application domains, including maintaining complex financial software to handle accounts and loans for UHNWI at Credit Suisse, and developing web applications to help customers troubleshoot their issues digitally instead of through call centers at Sky. Later moved into a Senior Software Engineering role to lead the delivery of product settings journeys for Sky's commercial products and to help develop a new billing page for Sky Mobile.
Professional Experience
Sky, Leeds
Senior Software Engineer
- Led the development of a series of product settings journeys for a brand new Sky product, working with teams in America and India.
- Worked with engineers in other teams to set up the infrastructure to enable API mocking, as the new product's external APIs couldnt be utilized in a development environment.
- Organized the implementation of automation testing into the team using playwright and percy.
- Collaborated with business analysts and product owners to analyze requirements, refine tickets, and deliver frequent application updates.
- Mentored other junior engineers in the team on software development best practices.
Sky, Leeds
Software Developer
- Collaborated with other developers to implement features for the Sky customer help website. Included maintaining some back-end services to augment the web application.
- Worked to deadlines using agile methodologies (scrum and kanban).
- Helped investigate and fix bugs within the application, including responding to high priority incidents.
- Presented new features to the wider department to showcase progress of large projects.
- In self-development time, developed a custom tool to help content editors search for content in a more refined way.
Credit Suisse, Zurich
IT Consultant
- Worked on augmenting software provided by an external software company.
- Conducted maintenance of server-side applications.
- Troubleshooted production server problems with the support team.
- Developed software with a large team of co-workers using the scrum methodology.
- Carefully handled confidential data that could not leave Switzerland or the Bank.
Education
Aberystwyth University, Aberstwyth
M.Phys Space Science and Robotics
Modules included:
- Disertation - Passive Structured Light for Planetary Landers (Computer Vision based software project, C++ and OpenCV)
- Software Development (Java)
- Program Design, Data Structures, and Algorithms
- C and UNIX Programming
- Agile Methodologies
- Numerical Methods (Fortran, Matlab)
- Introduction to Intelligent Systems
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