[mwilliamson]

Location: Cambridge, UK

Remote: Yes, or hybrid/office in Cambridge

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Most recent experience is with Python, TypeScript, React, GraphQL and PostgreSQL, but I've also worked with C# and Java. Happy to learn new things too!

CV: Available on request

Email: [e-mail]

I've worked for the last 12 years as a full stack web developer. That includes building backends, frontends, APIs, data ingestion tools, infrastructure in AWS.

I've worked in various domains, such as education and biotech. I'd like to contribute to something that improves the world in some way. That might be the obvious stuff like helping students learn or finding treatments for cancer, or it might be something less glamorous like working on database technologies. It probably isn't working on blockchain or in fintech.

I enjoy working in cross functional teams: that is, I like teams that have all the skills needed to consistently deliver business value, whether that's typical software roles like developers and designers, or something more domain-specific such as pharmacologists.

If you're just looking for someone to pick up tickets and churn out code, I'm probably not a good fit. I'm interested in the wider team and company goals and strategy, and would like to work in a team where everyone can contribute to product thinking, rather than (for instance) having a product manager that writes all of the tickets. In the past, I've built internal tools and worked with the domain experts that use the tools to work out what problem to solve next, and what the next most valuable increment to build would be.

I'm also interested in how people and teams collaborate. For instance, in my experience, meetings are often unstructured chatting, or have one or a small number do the vast majority of the talking. This means that many people don't meaningfully contribute -- frustrating for them, and a loss to the group as a whole -- and decisions aren't made, aren't clear, aren't understood, or aren't widely supported. I've successfully used techniques such as those in the Gamestorming book and Liberating Structures to add structure that allows everyone to contribute, for a range of options to be discussed and considered, while reaching a clear decision at the end.

I've tended to work in smaller organisations since much of the above tends to happen naturally in those circumstances, but I'd be open to working anywhere that's a good fit and treats its people as more than fungible units of resource production.