Experience

Frontend Mentor

• E-Learning Providers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-founder / CTO

  • Nov 2018 - Present



Mike Hayden

• Full Stack Engineer

  • Aug 2015 - Present

  As a freelance Web Developer I worked either on my own or in multidisciplinary teams to create modern, creative solutions for a wide range of problems from very corporate clients to smaller startups.Working as a freelancer taught me to manage my workflow effectively and to build a strong relationship with my clients. I also had to learn to manage my brand and the administrative side of working for myself.Most recently I have worked on Moveli.co.uk, an online estate agency. I have fostered a close relationship with the founders, and aside from developing their platform I have also trained and mentored their current developer.The platform is built using React, Express and MongoDB, with Webpack and a build tool. I also set up the deployment pipeline using git, so that the site can be deployed either to staging or live with one command.



FutureLearn

• United Kingdom
• E-learning
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Oct 2019 - Apr 2021



General Assembly

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Curriculum Lead

  • Jan 2018 - Sep 2019

  After working at General Assembly for two years as an instructor I became curriculum lead. During this time I made significant changes to the curriculum which helped to reduce stress, increase enjoyment and confidence whilst still achieving excellent conversion for students from the classroom to the workplace. Predominantly this revolved around improving the flow of the course with more emphasis on fundamentals, as well as introducing more TDD practices.I have helped to improve the process of the Admissions team with technical and Q&A sessions to give them a greater understanding of the course as a product. I have also worked closely with the Outcomes team to help integrate the important work that they do into the curriculum and improve student experience.

• Lead Instructor

  • Sep 2015 - Sep 2019

  I started working at General Assembly as an Instructor, which focused on teaching cohorts of between 10 - 25 adult students who are looking to transition from their existing jobs into web development. It is a bootcamp style course which lasts 12 weeks and students are expected to work 12 hour days for the entirety of the course. I have now taught roughly 300 students. I am proud to know that ~90% of them are now working in the tech sector.The role helped me to develop leadership skills, project management, mentorship, patience and preparedness. During my time as a lead instructor I also learned Ruby, Sinatra, Ruby on Rails, Angular 1, gulp, React, Vue, Python and Flask, as well as deepening my understanding of Node.js, Express and git.



Everywhere

• United Kingdom
• Design
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Technical Lead

  • Apr 2015 - Aug 2015

  After working as a developer for 3 years I was promoted to Technical Lead at Everywhere. I used my time in this role to help restructure the workflow, and manage a small team of developers. There was a wide range of projects from WordPress to Magento to custom Node.js builds, and this required a very dynamic approach to the role.

• Web Developer

  • 2012 - Apr 2015

  I began my Web Development career at Everywhere Digital, a small and dynamic agency based in East London, which has sadly now ceased trading. I started as an intern after teaching myself JavaScript and PHP.I learned a huge amount during my three years there. I worked closely with the founders as well as project manager and design team.I worked on a wide range of projects for clients including Davina McCall, Nike and Oxford Brookes University.