Gareth Hughes

Technical Director — Helium, Sydney, NSW

2016 — Present

Responsible for management of development team, all technical delivery and solution design.
Hands on full-stack development primarily in .NET and AWS.
Producing technical design, documentation and solutions presenting to both client and business.
Working to introduce and improve process supporting business and development team, including planning poker and Jira workflows.
Notable clients include ALDI, Roads and Maritime Services and Transport for NSW.

Freelance Developer

2010 — Present

Clients include, Microsoft, Carling and Open University.
Primarily front-end development with a variety of technologies.
Developed applications in .NET, Node.js and PHP.
Worked with not for profit organisations such as Sydney Dogs and Cats Home and PNI.org.uk

Senior Developer — Corporate Travel Management, Sydney, NSW

2015 — 2016

Back-end .NET MVC and WebAPI development.
Technical leadership.
Developed API versioning strategy and implementation.
Rebuilt hotel availability searching and booking engine delivering massive performance boosts.
Managed and developed EAN integration including implementing and meeting B2B launch requirements.
Developed automatic deployment processes into Azure using Bamboo.
Integration with Saber GDS, EAN and Jetstar APIs.
Helped the booking amounts to grow by over 500%

Senior Developer — HotelsCombined, Sydney, NSW

2014 — 2015

Full-stack .NET MVC and jQuery development.
Developed an automated marketing email system to distribute localised email to over 300,000 people each week.
Integrated multiple hotel providers into the HotelsCombined website.
Developed secure credit card vault for securely relaying credit card information to 3rd party APIs.
Created several new features such as the user profile system as well as several A/B tests across multiple markets and languages.

Contractor — Nine, Sydney, NSW

2013 — 2014

Junior to Senior Developer — Technophobia, Sheffield, England

2006 — 2013