Stuart McFarlane

Full stack developer

I was taken on os a frontend developer for reclamefolder.nl during it's scale-up phase after acquisition by DPG Media in a team varying from 4 to 6 developers.

My chief responsibility was the development of features in the React front end. I am also a very capable backend developer so typically I would also implement any API's and corresponding database artifacts the front end required.

The team were very capable and professional, it was a pleasure to work for reclamefolder.nl.

• Typescript
• node.js
• React
• GraphQL
• Angular
• fastify
• Express
• Postgres
• Google cloud
• Docker
• Kubernetes

Full stack engineer, lead developer

Built a scaling white label implementation of Booking.com's front end. The backend communicated with a proprietary interface for content and availability and bookings. Our customers were hotel chains such as Marriot and Best Western. A given white label instance was generated from a declarative configuration specifying the theme and landing pages.

The project was very successful and provided the basis of Booking.com's Hotel Services division. Unfortunately Booking.com decided that they needed to reimplement the product in their house language Perl. We stopped developing features for the rewrite and while we were doing this they bought a company with a similar product and more market penetration.

After the completion of the this project I stayed on at Booking and participated in the development of the sales process management system fir the new division. The system was built around a state machine with various temporal and activity triggered events feeding into a Salesforce implementation and also into our data science team. The state machine approach provided a time-series of events for each salesperson, lead and customer. Unfortunately the data science team found it difficult to interpolate the time series into actionable advice and the system was abandoned.

• Javascript
• node.js
• Express
• swig.js
• grunt
• browserify
• sass
• AWS EBS
• AWS EC2
• AWS DynamoDB
• Perl

Freelance programmer

Developing a tool chain to provide cloud supported mobile application development. Typically node.js implemented REST APIs for browser hosted one page applications and native mobile clients.

• Javascript
• node.js
• AngularJS
• MongoDB
• Redis
• AWS EC2
• Puppet
• Vagrant

Senior Application Developer, freelance

In 2011 I started a long contract for the Bureau Ketenontwikkeling Werk en Income (BKWI) where I lobbied for and implemented a professionalisation of their web development department. Specifically, I got them using version control (GIT) and continuous integration (ANT, Jenkins).

I was initially employed in a team of four developers to implement www.naleving.net which is a community site with features like communities (where general posts can be gathered together for interest groups) and the ability to follow other users. It’s all built from GIT with versioned DB update scripts for a reproducible deployment to the test, acceptance or production server. Naleving was a large project spanning six months. It was built on pi_base and ###TEMPLATES### with a lot of typoscript. This left us with strong motivation to move on to ExtBase development.

After Naleving went live we started building sites using ExtBase and Fluid templates. This went well enough but eventually we decided to switch to FLOW, an MVC architecture that is being build by the TYPO3 community.

My last project at BKWI was a re-implementation Kernkaart.nl. Kernkaart is a tool that decision makers in federal and gemeente politics can use compare the performance of gemeentes with respect to indicators calculated from census (CBS) data. The application needs to process reasonably large amounts of data to produce the indicator values which led us to use CouchDB. CouchDB enabled us to perform complex calculations over the data sets offline keeping the response times of page requests down.

• TYPO3 4.x
• TYPO3 pi_base
• TYPO3 ExtBase
• FLOW3
• PHP
• MySql
• CouchDB
• Javascript
• Linux
• HTML5
• Git
• Frontend development
• Backend development

Continued freelancing

In 2011 I returned to my own office in amsterdam and started taking contracts to develop websites again. I implemented a questionnaire system for the AHK (Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten), and implemented the search function for an existing Ruby on Rails app.

• TYPO3
• PHP
• MySql
• Ruby
• Linux

Application and System Programmer, freelance

It turned out that banks still needed programmers so in November of 2009 I took a contract to developing and maintaining application software for automatic teller machines for the Rabobank.

• MS Visual Studio 6.0
• C++
• PVCS
• HTML
• Wincor Nixdorf ATM systems and peripherals
• NCR

Began freelancing

As a result of the banking crisis in approximately May of 2009 banks started becoming difficult clients. Many projects were scrapped and I found myself free to pursue my desire to become a freelance developer. I picked up PHP and CMS development using TYPO3 and started taking contracts.

I started out making small business sites, but quickly moved on to writing custom plugins for larger clients. These are made with templaviola and pi_base custom plugins.

• TYPO3
• PHP
• MySql
• Linux

Application and System Programmer

I was primarily hired to develop and maintain automatic teller machines application code. Between core business projects I continued the development of the in house build/delivery system, developed office productivity tooling.

• Agile develpment (Scrum)
• MS Visual Studio 2005, 2008
• C++
• MS Visual source safe
• PVCS
• HTML
• Wincor Noxdorf ATM systems and peripherals
• Java
• XSLT
• C#
• XAML
• Windows forms

Application and System Programmer

Developing and maintaining application software for automatic teller machines.

System Programmer

Developed middleware on win32 for banks' backend and office applications.

System Programmer

Various projects.

Traveling

Travelled through Africa and wound up in the Netherlands.

Programmer

Developed embedded software for an integrated credit and jackpot system for a casino.

Programmer

Developed and maintained a decision management tool for cotton growers.

Programmer

The goal was to develop a modulation recognition system for battlefield communication.

The research engineer had developed RF electronics to extract signal characteristics that could potentially be used to identify the modulation of a given signal. I implemented the data capture from A/D converters, primary statistical analysis on the sliding window and the test framework required to analyse candidate pattern recognition algorithms.

A period of literature research identifying pattern recognition algorithms a selection of candidates was made. I implemented the candidate algorithms into the test framework. The candidate algorithms were tested against representative signal inputs and a set of winning candidates were identified.

The final implementation was a bus addressable PCB hosting a network of Inmos Transputers running a pipeline implementation of the capture/analysis and pattern recognition implementations from the first research and testing stage.

• C
• Occam (Proprietary Inmos Transputer programming language)
• Realtime data capture and statistical analysis
• Research