Jesse McNelis

Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
GitHub: https://www.github.com/jessta/

Skills

About Me

I'm friendly, honest and reliable. I'm able to work with others and respond creatively to problems. I pick up and understand new ideas quickly and am able to put them in to practise immediately. I have a keen interest in all aspects of software development. I have experience in a wide range of languages, libraries and platforms. Most recently I've been working on ReactJS and Typescript applications backed by nodejs backends hosted via Google Cloud.

I've worked in a team of up to 10 people with code reviews, tests and continous integration and down to a team of one.

Work Experience

Senior Developer at GoodHuman (April 2024 - Current)

Typescript, NodeJS, React, Postgresql

At GoodHuman I worked as part of a team on designing and developing a backend public API to provide an interface for integrating GoodHuman with external services.

Senior Developer at Rosemary Health (March 2022 - June 2022)

Python (flask, sqlalchemy), AWS Lambda, Postgresql

My work at Rosemary Health required me to get up to speed with a fast growing team and a codebase with a slow and complex development, build and deploy setup.

I was involved in working to simplify the build and development environments to allow the team to scale up.

Senior Developer at BugHerd (April 2014 - September 2021)

Ruby on Rails(3.2-5.2), Javascript (React, Antd, Backbonejs, Redux, GraphQL(Apollo), SQL(Postgresql))

I worked as a critical part of a team developing a variety of new versions of the product built on Reactjs with a Ruby On Rails backend.

I worked as the only developer/ops/support for 18 months (2016-2018) during a time of low growth. This involved migrating/consolidating infrastructure, feature development, responding to service problems, bugfixes and customer support.

From 2018, the team grew again and we started major feature development again. I continued as a critical team member, provided mentoring to junior developers and spearheaded the process of migrating legacy parts of the application from BackboneJS to React, Typescript and GraphQL/Apollo.

Developer at Magian Media Studio (January 2013 - April 2014)

Ruby on Rails(2.3, 3.2), Javascript(Backbonejs, JQuery, React)

Developing a CMS for the editing, processing and deployment of content for dynamic touchscreen displays in public spaces.

Developer at FactoryX (June 2012 - December 2012)

2 person team, PHP(Magento), MySQL, developing and maintaining multiple ecommerce sites based on Magento for a number of fashion brands.

Developer at Flippa (September 2010 - April 2011)

A small team using PHP, MySQL to add features to a web app for auctions.

Education

Other Interests

In my lesuire time I enjoy cycling, brunch, walking, gardening, rocket league, and discussions about urban planning and public transport.
Currently growing a nice crop of cherry tomatoes.