Robert Cambridge
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Self-educated backend and infrastructure software engineer.
+Passionate about readable, scalable & secure code.
+Commander of git, Terraform, Go, Typescript on node.js, nix, linux systems, networking.
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+"takes a lot of pride in delivering good work" - Antti Kupila
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+"he really gave it 110% and was critical to the project's success" - Eaden McKee
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+"highly skilled, battle-tested and a great team lead and mentor" - Saemie Chouchane
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+"one of the most naturally talented programmers you'll meet" - Jamie Learmonth
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Available for freelance work in Amsterdam or remote.
+📞 +31 203 699 866 [call now]
+✉️ robert@cambridge.me
+🔗 linkedin.com/in/rcambrj
+👥 Schedule an interview with me
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Experience
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Frasers Group via Lab Digital, Utrecht [03/2024 - 10/2024]
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+- Maintained & developed
Typescript backend running in microservices alongside commercetools
+- Created & fixed
Terraform infrastructure architecting the AWS Lambda & ECS services
+- Introduced
nix devshell to make onboarding & distribution of tooling easier
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VanMoof via MA Micro Ltd, Amsterdam [10/2023 - 01/2024]
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+- Maintained & developed infrastructure managed with
Terraform, inherited from previous team
+- Brought up and improved engineer-facing
Kubernetes clusters and staging environments
+- Architected & executed plan to switch .com website to be reverse-proxied by
Cloudflare
+- Implemented
Cloudflare rules & workers with Terraform to direct traffic to origins
+- Assisted with the development of new internal services written in
Go
+- Wrote
Kubernetes manifests to be instantiated by ArgoCD
+- Continually scrutinised systems for security flaws and reported those detected
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VanMoof, Amsterdam [07/2021 - 05/2023]
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+- Developed web services in
Go (golang Lambdas via Terraform)
+- Developed web services in
Serverless.js (node.js Lambdas via CloudFormation)
+- Brought up and maintained
AWS services such as RDS, DynamoDB, S3 and related network & ACL infrastructure
+- Architected and developed a service to supply OTA firmware updates to bikes
+- Architected and developed a service to track and investigate manufacturing faults
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Polestar via code d'azur, Amsterdam [09/2020 - 07/2021]
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+- Mentored & guided a team of 12
+- Helped maintain the
gatsby site with several hundred static pages running React with emotion
+- Collaborated with other team representatives to prepare and complete architectural plans
+- Investigated new integrations, contributing to formalisation of new visions into manageable pieces of work
+- Maintained & improved the deployment pipelines in
Bitbucket
+- Architected system to run database migrations on an off-the-shelf headless CMS (
DatoCMS)
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PON Occasions via Dept, Amsterdam [01/2020 - 06/2020]
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+- Brought multi-deployment whitelabel frontend project from greenfield to live with a team of three
+- Architected
Next.js and vanilla webpack builds to use a common app codebase using Typescript
+- Employed
React, styled-components and Storybook for a scalable structure
+- Analysed client requirements and translated into kanban-style work board
+- Built a strong bridge of trust for expectations of delivery with client
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[ABN AMRO Incubator] via Dept, Amsterdam [01/2020 - 02/2020]
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+- Implemented deployment of multi-process
node.js app to Heroku Pipelines
+- Architected reverse proxy/frontend/backend apps as discrete Docker-like workspaces
+- Created sane
node.js Typescript configuration and linting
+- Pioneered unit and end-to-end testing, integrated testing in the CI/CD build pipeline
+- Collaborated with testers to write and improve automated
TestCafe scripts
+- Implemented
GraphQL API to manage files on box.com with custom Auth0 authentication/authorization
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Etos via Dept, Amsterdam [09/2019 - 12/2019]
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+- Contributed new features and bugfixes to existing vanilla JS website
+- Improved developer experience by installing sensible Javascript linting tools
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Activia via AKQA, Amsterdam [05/2019 - 08/2019]
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+- Led the development of this global brand's new website construction
+- Brought
Gatsby project from greenfield to delivery with a team of two
+- Architected
Contentful data structure for a global rollout across many regions and languages
+- Bootstrapped project with
React, styled-components, Storybook, jest & enzyme
+- Created smooth animated transitions between statically generated pages
+- Setup and maintained deployment pipeline on
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
+- Initially solo, laid the ground work for the new Amsterdam engineering team to grow with best practices
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Imperial Tobacco/Fontem (blu.com), Amsterdam [01/2019 - 04/2019]
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+- Configured
webpack and Babel for Jest, Storybook and Next.js with Typescript
+- Configured reverse proxy for micro-frontends with localisation and health checks
+- Designed major parts of the API specification, with comprehensive buy in from the frontend+backend team
+- Created new page components in
React with styled-components and matching Contentful model architecture
+- Improved
OpenAPI/Swagger code generation templates for Typescript to better support inheritance/polymorphism
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Ace & Tate, Amsterdam [10/2018 - 12/2018]
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+- Forged a plan to unobtrusively transition to continuous integration+deployment pipeline
+- Dockerised services and deployed them to
AWS EB via CircleCI and AWS ECR
+- Identified data acquisition failures from third parties and built
node.js caching layer to mitigate
+- Created high impact interactions in
react-native with careful attention to user experience cost
+- Rebuilt parts of the
React application to gain confidence by way of thorough unit testing
+- Coached the team through agile principles, ultimately building trust in development capacity
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Gain Theory via Tweag IO, London [03/2018 - 07/2018]
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+- Rebuilt client-facing data visualisation tools in
reactjs/redux using d3 and recharts
+- Analysed client requirements to establish business data structure and functionality
+- Engineered
node.js service to transform data structure and store in postgres
+- Implemented SVO-based ACL using
cancan and passportjs
+- Dockerised all services, plus
docker-compose for developer experience
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Wonderbill via Boston Consulting Group, London [07/2016 - 02/2018]
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+- Developed a web scraping framework to retrieve consumer billing data in a
Chrome extension
+- Architected data structure to store billing data supporting a wide range of account shapes
+- Dockerised services to retrieve billing data programmatically with a
node.js wrapper to invoke Chrome via Selenium
+- Trained and led a small team of developers creating scripts to scrape & store billing data
+- Architected and implemented strategies to track, follow and improve billing data accuracy
+- Repeatedly exceeded improvement targets for data accuracy and acquisition efficiency
+- Contributed small improvements to
golang & ruby data storage services
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NHS England via Web Technology Group, London [01/2016 - 06/2016]
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+- Developed a web-based CMS-like document management intranet site running
reactjs/redux powered by Nuxeo
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Arcadia Group, London [08/2015 - 12/2015]
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+- Developed leading UK retail brands' ecommerce front ends
+- Created reusable logic across the 8 retail sites whilst supporting brand identity
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Square Enix, London [03/2015 - 06/2015]
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+- Continued development game website in
backbone and marionette
+- Created an avatar provider microservice
+- Iterated authentication library to support new major features retaining backwards compatibility
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Expedia, London [12/2014 - 02/2015]
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+- Developed internal analytics/reporting intranet site running
backbone
+- Refactored non-standard
node.js express API into organised RESTful endpoints
+- Implemented MVP (presenter) architecture to abstract business logic from API URLs
+- Rewrote the ACL to use permission-based authorisation with hierarchy and groups
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Square Enix, London [05/2014 - 10/2014]
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+- Developed website for a game in
backbone and marionette
+- Created a cross-domain consumer authentication (SSO) library for company-wide roll out
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Sportlobster, London [01/2014 - 03/2014]
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+- Led & mentored a team of 3 frontend developers using Javascript
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Boxlight, London [10/2010 - 12/2013]
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+- Architected & developed hundreds of web applications in PHP and Javascript
+- Deployed using rsync to AWS EC2 machines, eventually with Jenkins
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