LEAD FRONT END ENG.
Rebuilt a real-time trading platform in 6 months. 4 years leading the frontend, growing the team from 0 to 10.
Remote, UK, Trading, Real-Time, Lead
The platform went offline during the wind-down. Below are short videos showing the application running on the dev environment — preserved as a record of what shipped to production.
ReactReduxTypeScriptD3JSTailwindNodeJSJest
Football Index was a high-traffic, real-time football trading platform serving thousands of daily users. 4-year lead engagement on the frontend.
Rebuilt the platform from scratch in 6 months, replacing a failing legacy system, then maintained and scaled it through 4 years of high-traffic peaks.
Grew the frontend team from 0 to 10 engineers. Set hiring standards, agile workflows, and architectural conventions. Wrote the technical interview process the team used for years afterwards.
Architected a 3,000+ test suite reaching ~60% coverage across the codebase — a deliberate investment that paid back during rapid scaling and the platform's high-volatility trading windows.
Built real-time data visualisations using D3.js for trading flows and time-series analysis. The visualisations were core to the user trading experience — showing price movements, market depth, and historical performance.
Shipped two mobile MVPs to validate the mobile product thesis — one in React Native, one in Kotlin Multiplatform.
Continued through the platform's UKGC suspension and wind-down period to support customer communications and technical handover. Clean end to a 4-year engagement.