Client
Sky.
Summary
A consultancy agreement that covered several projects, from architectural improvements on a core framework to the implementation of initiatives to improve development culture. One of the main projects within this arrangement was to evolve a comprehensive JavaScript framework created in React called Sky Pages, which runs a lot of customer-facing websites and applications. Technically, this involved helping developers use and maintain the core framework and deployments across the platform. A lot of time and care went into building an engineering culture of pride, stability and respect for everyone using the project.
Highlights
- Leading a team of developers to refactor a large codebase to bring more stability and conventions to an in-house framework
- Creation of a "tool belt" to ease getting up and running with Sky Pages. In essence, a command-line tool to run everyday tasks, diagnose issues and introduce new features
- Mentoring developers surrounding best practices, writing cleaner code and writing for performance and scale
- Running of a "Sky Pages Guild", a regular meet up for developers to ask questions, champion ideas and decide on the future of the framework
- Delivery of a primer on the framework to the entire company covering the technical improvements as well as cultural achievements made by the whole team