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A selection of what I've built, from mobile features at Atlassian to freelance websites and game tools.

Atlassian

Oct 2017 to Mar 2026 · Remote

Eight years on Trello, from software engineer to engineering manager and senior engineer, finishing as iOS tech lead and feature lead.

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Trello's Inbox on an iPhone, showing quick-capture cards, with app icons floating beside it.

Trello iOS

Atlassian, 2022 to 2023, 2024 to 2026 · Senior Engineer

  • Led the iOS build of Inbox, Trello's quick-capture space, across several milestones with product, design, Android and web.
  • Modernised the card back in SwiftUI, making it faster, more reliable and easier to maintain.
  • Created TrelloUI, an internal iOS design system, on my own initiative.
  • Built Apple Reminders import for Inbox using the native EventKit API.
  • Introduced pre-mortems to the mobile team and ran its weekly sync and sprint planning.

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A Trello board on the web with To Do, This week and Read later lists of cards.

Trello Web

Atlassian, 2017 to 2022 · Senior Engineer

  • Feature led the rewrite of notifications onto Trello's new frontend stack, working across multiple teams.
  • Feature led Org Map from design through to delivery (the feature has since been retired).
  • Led the free trial work, which supported Trello's new customer growth.
  • Sped up the Members page for large teams, using my own innovation time.
  • Founded TACO Talks, a cross-team knowledge sharing programme.

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Jira Product Discovery's impact assessment view, a table of ideas scored by effort, goal impact and insights.

Jira Product Discovery

Atlassian, 2023 to 2024 · Senior Engineer

  • Delivered most of the frontend for the Field Migration, moving customers' field definitions to Jira.
  • Defined the feature flag rollout approach used by the team.
  • Helped form the new Horizon team and set up its ways of working.

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Bluestorm

Jan 2015 to Sep 2017 · Hull

Web developer at an integrated marketing agency, building client websites from design briefs, plus mobile apps.

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The Hull College homepage, with two mechanics working under a car and a course search box under the heading 'Your career starts here'.

Hull College Group

Bluestorm, 2017 · Engineer

I built the Hull College Group website at Bluestorm, launched around May and June 2017.

  • Wrote the front end code and the Craft CMS templates.
  • Integrated the course search, which was a third-party tool, into the site.
  • Large, bold images that reveal as you scroll, using parallax scrolling.
  • The site won Gold in the Best Website category at the Heist Awards, the education marketing awards, for the agency.
The Deep aquarium's homepage, with a group of penguins on ice, a 'We're open' message and a Book Now button.

The Deep

Bluestorm, 2016 · Engineer

I built a new website for The Deep, the aquarium in Hull, while at Bluestorm.

  • Also built an interactive app for the touchscreens in the attraction, with a page for each creature: its details, habitat, conservation and a fact file.
  • One feature is a spinning 3D world that uses coordinates to show where each animal lives.
  • Still running on the screens when I visited in 2026, nearly ten years on.

Multiply UK

Mar 2013 to Dec 2014 · Edinburgh

Developer, promoted from junior in 2014. Built eLearning for the Royal Bank of Scotland and other clients, to strict bank standards including IE6.

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The Multiply agency logo, a white M above the company name on a dark background.

eLearning at Multiply

Multiply UK, 2013 to 2014 · Engineer

My first engineering job, building eLearning for clients including the Royal Bank of Scotland.

  • Took over RAPID, the company's in-house tool, which turned Word documents into JavaScript modules for the SCORM eLearning system, with the processing done in PHP.
  • Maintained and extended RAPID, adapting it for new requirements and adding features.
  • Wrote the modules' JavaScript, to strict bank guidelines.
  • Supported IE6, which was a hard requirement for the bank.
  • Promoted from junior developer to developer within the year.

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PixelBrawl Studio

Jun 2012 to Feb 2013 · Middlesbrough

Co-founded an Android game studio with three university friends.

Leaky Pipes gameplay, with a network of glass pipes, corks and tools in a side panel.

Leaky Pipes

PixelBrawl Studio, 2012 to 2013 · Engineer

  • I was one of a team of five, building the user interface and gameplay code.
The Brawl Editor level tool with the Leaky Pipes main menu open, beside lists of objects and level properties.

Brawl Editor

PixelBrawl Studio, 2012 to 2013 · Engineer

  • A level creation tool for the BrawlEngine, with selection, move, rotate, pan, zoom, snapping, and copy and paste.

Freelance

The Quayside Fabrication website, with a welder at work in the header and a page about mobilisation and demobilisation services.

Quayside Fabrication

Freelance, 2015 · Engineer

  • I turned a design from 06 Media into a custom WordPress theme.
  • Advanced Custom Fields handled pages with repeating content and tables.
  • The original site is no longer online.
The Walker Motors website, with a car in the header, the latest used vehicles and links to repairs and stock.

Walker Motors

Freelance, 2015 · Engineer

  • Built with 06 Media for a car dealer in Aberdeen.
  • Installed and configured the client's chosen theme, then customised it to match their branding.
  • Loaded their existing stock onto the site.
  • The site has since been redesigned, so this is my original 2015 work.

Personal projects

Sophie Marshall's illustration portfolio, a gallery of drawings including a rabbit, a dragon and a winged figure.

Sophie Marshall, illustration portfolio

Personal project, 2020

  • A gallery of her illustrations, with Design and About pages.
  • Built with Next.js and TypeScript, with Sanity so she can add and edit her own work.

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The titanRose item editor, a large spreadsheet-style table of game item data.

titanRose Online tools

Personal project, 2006 to 2009 · Engineer

  • From around the age of 16 I built tools for a small group developing an MMO.
  • Item Editor, the most advanced, merged about 20 files across 3 to 4 file types into one interface.
  • NPC Finder searched information from more than 75 files.
  • Also editors for drop lists, crafting, help text, strings, lightmaps and data tables.