Jamie Sefton

Head of Engineering

Contact

Glasgow, UK info@jamie-sefton.co.uk https://jamie-sefton.co.uk Download CV
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Education

BSc Computing (1st)

Leeds Beckett University
2010-2014

A Levels

Halewood Academy
2008-2010

Skills

Management

  • People Management
    • Recruitment
    • Organisational Structure
    • Mentorship & 1:1s
    • Multiple Squads
  • Project Management
    • Scrum, Agile & Kanban
    • Sprint & Quarterly Planning
    • Cross-functional Delivery
    • Jira & ADO
  • Delivery Management
    • Release Co-ordination
    • Stakeholder Reporting

Developer

  • HTML, CSS & JS
  • PHP & OO PHP
  • MySQL, PL/T-SQL + ORMs
  • Node.js
  • Angular, Vue, React
  • Laravel & Symfony
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Docker, Kubernetes / Containerisation
  • Unit Tests, Integration Tests
  • Test Driven Development (TDD)
  • IoT - SmartCities (UMSUG & TALQ)

Experience

Enigmatic Smile / Head of Engineering

January 2024 - Present

  • Evolving from a start-up to scale-up stage
  • Managing Mobile, Frontend, Backend, QA & DevOps Engineers
  • Restructuring the engineering function to create lead and other head of department roles
  • Working cross-functional with multiple departments and stakeholders
  • Implementing new delivery processes and engineering roadmap
  • Implementing professional development plans and supporting engineers career growth
  • Expanding the team across multiple roles (11 new hires in 6 months)
  • Planning both strategical and technical for the evolution of next generation services and infrastructure
  • Guiding the direction of engineering with a focus on quality and automation

Freelance / Backend Engineer

June 2022 - Present

  • Implementation of a full business suite for employee, time & payroll management
  • Project to create multiple bespoke online booking systems for both internal use and public facing
  • Hardware integration tools with EPOS systems and custom built game scoring sensors
  • Digital signage tool for management of screens, schedules and assets along with an Android app to run on screens
  • Status monitor alerting tool for uptime checking and statistics
  • Custom Unify WiFi captive portal integrations and administration portals

RLDatix

January 2021 - December 2023 (3 years)

Engineering Manager

January 2023 - December 2023 (1 year, 11 months)

  • Manager of multiple squads with direct reports of Lead Developers
  • Responsible for overall product delivery across multiple regions
  • Working closely with stakeholders of other functions, such as product management, quality assurance and customer success members
  • Implementation of processes along with short and long term planning (sprint & quarterly)

Lead Developer

August 2021 - February 2022 (7 months)

  • Line management of 3-5 developers within my own squad
  • Responsible for quality and delivery of the squads work
  • Solutioning new features for R&D delivery

Senior Developer

January 2021 - August 2021 (8 months)

  • Working within a squad focusing on feature development & regression resolution
  • Collaboration with QA and Product Owners to ensure the best solution is delivered

Parallax

October 2015 - January 2021 (5 years, 4 months)

Head of Backend Development

October 2016 - January 2021 (4 years, 4 months)

  • Line manager for all backend developers whilst still being hands-on with active development of client projects
  • Aided to grow the team from 2 developers to 10+ and handling recruitment, appraisals and project planning for the team
  • Primarily working on IoT projects to create a large platform for city wide control (SmartCities)

Senior Developer

October 2015 - October 2016 (1 year, 1 month)

  • Primarily backend development working closely with frontend developers and designers to build websites for clients
  • Development of features for both new and existing bespoke client systems / products

LITTLE Agency / Web Developer

May 2014 - October 2015 (1 year, 6 months)

As the first employee of the company I created the foundations and tooling to expand the businesses offering of web development services and the expansion of the development team.

  • Creation of process, tooling and framework used for bespoke website builds
  • Building e-commerce and bespoke web solutions for clients

Rejuvenate Productions / Web Developer

March 2012 - August 2013 (1 year, 6 months)

Completion of a placement year with Rejuvenate and continued part time work during the remainder of my university studies.

  • Front & Backend Development of bespoke websites for clients
  • Creation of bespoke e-commerce websites