Michael Wignall

I'm a web developer with plenty of industry experience, during this time I've dealt with all parts of the project lifecycle; be it requirements gathering, planning, database design, prototyping, release and maintenance.

For the last few years I've been the senior back-end developer for an agile, remote team working with Ruby on Rails to maintain a complex healthcare website. I'm well versed in Test- and Behaviour-Driven Development using cucumber, capybara and minitest to create well-tested and maintainable code.

Employment history

  1. Senior back-end developer at Sleepstation

    December 2019 - Present (around 5 years)

    Sleepstation is a website built using Ruby on Rails which helps users get a better nights sleep and has been proven to combat even the most severe insomnia. I've been responsible for transitioning this site from a simple prototype to an application which provides users access to resources, therapy sessions and support as well as building a system for staff to support those users.

    Skills: GraphQL, Ruby on Rails, Sidekiq, Code reviews, Mentoring, MariaDB

  2. Web developer at Born Digital

    December 2010 - 2019 (9 years)

    At Born Digital I built everything from brochure-like sites, event ticketing systems, online communities and e-commerce systems.

    Skills: Wordpress, CodeIgniter, Kohana, Shopify, Magento

  3. Web developer at Twisted Studio

    May 2010 - November 2010 (5 months)

    Originally brought in on a contract to develop a business-to-business application I was asked to join the team permanently. Largely working in PHP to create web API's for flash games, iPhone and Android applications.

    Skills: PHP, REST API design, database design

  4. Co-founder at Another Orange

    July 2009 - April 2010 (around 1 year)

    As part of the Digital City create fellowship programme I co-founded a social networking website aimed towards travellers and backpackers. I gained insight into the running of a startup through this process as well as lots of experience planning & pitching new products.

    Skills: Research, Planning, Prototyping, jQuery

  5. Junior developer at Bondgate IT

    Jul 2007 - Jul 2008 (1 year)

    Time spent mostly working with C# in Microsoft Visual Studio .NET developing a large codebase as part of a small 'extreme programming' based team. I helped to develop a large contact management system and also created wordpress themes for small brochure like websites.

    Skills: Git, C#, .NET, SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Education

  1. University Of Teessde

    2005 - 2009

    First class BSc (Hons) Multimedia. A degree with a misleading name, it primarily centered around web development.

Skills

Things I'm excellent at

Ruby on Rails, Sidekiq, Code reviews and Mentoring

Things I'm good at

Git, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Wordpress & GraphQL

Things I've had experience with

C#, .NET, SQL Server, CodeIgniter, Kohana, Shopify and Magento

Contact details

Mobile 07813961160
Email wignall.michael@gmail.com
Website mwignall.com