JamesWorwood.

Aug 2025 – Present

• –Led the end-to-end frontend architecture and delivery of Nandoca, completing the employee experience product and its rollout to approximately 15,000 restaurant colleagues across the UK and Ireland.
• –Delivered the main colleague experience: a user-generated news feed, direct messaging, work groups, and profile personalisation.
• –Re-architected the TypeScript React Native and Expo application into a Turborepo monorepo, adding a Hono backend-for-frontend and a reusable Unistyles component library.
• –Replaced GetStream's default interface with a custom product experience while retaining its feed and messaging services; owned the Okta and LaunchDarkly integrations.
• –Set frontend and testing standards across a team of typically five to seven people and helped lead the team's adoption of Claude through shared CLAUDE.md guidance and repeatable engineering workflows.

Feb 2024 – Feb 2025

• –Joined to lead the development and delivery of a React and Next.js legal case-cost analytics platform for Slaughter and May.
• –Turned complex financial breakdowns into clear, interactive ECharts visualisations and built the reusable frontend components needed around them.
• –After the first product was completed, stayed on to lead a new bespoke platform for wider law-firm use, built with React Native and Expo across web, tablet, and mobile.
• –Created a custom component library and complex charting and interface components with Unistyles, treating accessibility and runtime performance as part of the implementation rather than later fixes.
• –Led day-to-day delivery across a multidisciplinary team of typically five to seven frontend and backend engineers and data scientists, improved the Jira workflow, and introduced clearer pull-request and testing standards.
• –Interviewed frontend and backend candidates and helped set the technical direction, team shape, and delivery approach for the new product.

Nov 2021 – Jul 2023

• –Helped re-architect an estate of 25 Angular microfrontend applications from Single-SPA to Module Federation across five international teams.
• –Contributed upgrades and code changes to every application in the estate, with primary responsibility for five applications owned by my team.
• –Built two new microfrontend applications, both maintaining a minimum 80% unit test coverage threshold enforced by CI gates, and contributed to the CI setup.
• –Upgraded applications to Angular 16 and extended the shared component library used across the wider platform.
• –Added Cypress end-to-end tests to the build pipeline, resolved Jenkins and ingress problems, and supported coordinated releases across teams.

Oct 2021 – Apr 2023

• –Traced missing and broken data models through the Java backend as well as the React and Vue frontends, then moved on to new features within the microfrontend platform.
• –Worked on the fleet reporting product used to turn vehicle data into useful operational reports for business customers.
• –Led CLARA, a React Native and Expo application that helped drivers plan safer routes by avoiding areas associated with collisions and hard braking.
• –Implemented React Query, AsyncStorage persistence, React Navigation, real-time location, and Firebase push notifications; improved rendering and background processing using Flipper and React DevTools.
• –Defined API contracts and data-fetching patterns with backend engineers, built iOS and Android pipelines with Fastlane and GitHub Actions, added Jest and React Native Testing Library coverage, and mentored junior developers.

May 2021 – Aug 2021

• –Took over an Angular greenfield rewrite from a third-party consultancy, owning frontend infrastructure and feature work, repairing Webpack build profiles, and supporting defect investigation with the business.

Aug 2020 – May 2021

• –Delivered Angular features and production support for aircraft maintenance, crew, and flight-hours tracking, including new or wrapped DevExtreme components, and helped build a React Native invoicing proof of concept.

Feb 2020 – Aug 2020

• –Built Angular customer-facing features for a secure-transaction portal, integrated Laravel REST services through production release, and started a React Native mobile analytics proof of concept.

Oct 2017 – Oct 2019

• –Recovered delayed Angular and Spring Boot products, rebuilt call-centre and master-data applications, and led CI/CD and DevOps delivery across Bitbucket, Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes.

Apr 2017 – Oct 2017

• –Integrated National Lottery REST services into the bank's USSD platform and coordinated releases through testing sign-off, CAB presentation, production deployment, and final approval.

Sep 2014 – Mar 2017

• –Developed and supported an e-commerce ADF and Java EE platform, helped rebuild it with JSF, Bootstrap, and modular SOAP services, exposed services to FNB, and delivered Jenkins pipelines and repository migrations.