Jamie Sinclair

Software Engineer

Globally experienced engineer making an impact at scale across Japan, New Zealand and the USA.

Experience

  • Software Engineer

    Indeed

    January 2022 - Present

  • Full Stack Engineer

    Houzz

    September 2018 - December 2021

  • Front End Engineer

    Vend

    September 2014 - February 2018

Education

  • Bachelor of Performing Arts

    Ara Institute of Canterbury

    2010 - 2012

  • Diploma of Web Development

    Yoobee Colleges

    2013 - 2014

Career Highlights

Houzz

  • Co-lead and architected development of team's multi-tenant "nocode" website service for our customers that serves millions of traffic per month
  • Lead and introduced thorough Unit, Integration and E2E testing. Currently the company's most tested project with over 70% coverage.
  • Lead migration of 50,000 lines of code project from Flow to TypeScript without slowing feature development.

Vend

  • Fundamental years of my growth as a developer. We collaborated daily with designers, analysts and engineers in cross-functional teams.
  • Learnt modular front end architecture and decoupling legacy applications into microservices.

Other Highlights

  • Currently working with React, TypeScript, Node.js, Sentry, Jenkins and Kubernetes. Some experience with PHP, Java, Golang and a variety of software tooling.
  • I've discovered odd browser bugs in Chrome and a workaround for a critical Safari bug affecting arithmetic in BigNumber.js.
  • Had fun contributing to a bunch of open sources projects. Next.js, Yarn, Cypress, Atom and many more.
  • I also love to get away from the computer and go hiking, running or cozied up in a Japanese Izakaya bar.