Samuel Larsen-Disney
www.sld.codes | s.larsendisney@gmail.com
Creative, collaborative and courageous developer with extensive experience in web based technologies and UX design. Looking for the next challenge to improve customer experience and deepen engagement.
EXPERIENCE
UX Engineer
Behaviour Lab, London | 2021 - Present
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Responsible for leading UI development of Behaviour Lab's SaaS product targeted at asset managers, private equity firms, insurance companies and executive boards.
JS, ReactJS, Jest, TypeScript, GatsbyJS, TailwindCSS
Front-End Engineer
American Express, London | 2020 - 2021
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Responsible for creating and maintaining performant, acessible ReactJS and JS components used across the organisation's online presence.
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Created tools that allow us to measure how our components are being used. Versions, bundle size, accessiblity, best practices and SEO impacts are tracked automatically.
JS, ReactJS, Jest, Redux, GatsbyJS, Emotion, Styled Components, Sketch, Invision
UX Engineer
American Express, London | 2019 - 2020
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Developed a new referral experience that features enhanced referral rewards for platinum and gold card members. It has engaged with 600,000 customers to date.
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Created a self-service automation tool for assesing a webpage's performance, accessibilty and generating screenshots of the page for multiple view ports. This has increased the ability for markets to self service, reducing the need to engage engineers to acquire this information.
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Facilitated design sprints and lightening decision jams to help the team ideate.
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Built web-ready animations, onboarding experiences, faster sites in newer frameworks and chat bots.
User Experience, Rapid Prototyping, JS, Typescript, ReactJS, Redux, GatsbyJS, GraphQL, Node, Express, Electron, Adobe Suite, Sketch, Invision
Graduate UX Designer
American Express, Burgess Hill | 2019
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Conducted research into how we could improve elements of the referral hub. This included competitor analysis, analysis of existing site, creation of personas, wireframes and mockups.
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Built a prototype for a research archive that summarises, tags, intelligently links and prioritises research for better design decisions.
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Was the only graduate in my cohort to formally manage interns and have gone on to be the youngest engineer to manage graduates
User Experience, User Research, User Testing, JS, ReactJS, GatsbyJS, GraphQL, Sketch, Invision, Python
Graduate Front-End Engineer
American Express, Burgess Hill | 2018 - 2019
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Designed and built GRAD, a hub for technology onboarding. The collection initially intended for graduates, is being used campus-wide and receives over 250 unique vistors a month and has accumulated over 20,000 views.
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Replaced uses of Oracle forms (legacy software) in Loyalty. By doing so we no longer need to pay for extended support reducing development costs by half.
Internal Tooling, Analytics, JS, ReactJS, Redux, Node, Sketch, Java
TECHNICAL SKILLS
JavaScript
HTML
Node
ReactJS
Electron
Bootstrap
Redux
React Native
GatsbyJS
NextJS
Express
GraphQL
Typescript
Jenkins
Jest
Python
DESIGN EXPERTISE
User Research
Usability Testing
Visual Design
Design Sprints
DESIGN TOOLS
Sketch
Invision
Figma
After Effects
Illustrator
Photoshop
Premiere
AdobeXD
EDUCATION
Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence BSc - King's College London University
Dissertation on using visual search engines to combat fake news.
INTERESTS
Hackathons
I enjoy teaching the next generation to code and have a bit of a reputation for staying up all night.
Photography
Everything from wildlife to wedding photography. One of my photos "The Brighton Fox" was featured in Brighton & Hove's Annual Calendar in 2019.
This CV was coded in ReactJS.
Samuel Larsen-Disney
www.sld.codes | s.larsendisney@gmail.com
A front-end developer with four years experience using ReactJS to build performant and accessible applications. Looking for the next challenge to improve customer experience and deepen engagement.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
JavaScript
HTML
Node
ReactJS
Electron
Bootstrap
Redux
React Native
GatsbyJS
NextJS
Express
GraphQL
Typescript
Jenkins
Jest
Python
DESIGN EXPERTISE
User Research
Usability Testing
Visual Design
Design Sprints
DESIGN TOOLS
Sketch
Invision
Figma
After Effects
Illustrator
Photoshop
Premiere
AdobeXD
EDUCATION
Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence BSc - King's College London University
Dissertation on using visual search engines to combat fake news.
INTERESTS
Hackathons
I enjoy teaching the next generation to code and have a bit of a reputation for staying up all night.
Photography
Everything from wildlife to wedding photography. One of my photos "The Brighton Fox" was featured in Brighton & Hove's Annual Calendar in 2019.
This CV was coded in ReactJS.
EXPERIENCE
UX Engineer
Behaviour Lab, London | 2021 - Present
-
Responsible for leading UI development of Behaviour Lab's SaaS product targeted at asset managers, private equity firms, insurance companies and executive boards.
JS, ReactJS, Jest, TypeScript, GatsbyJS, TailwindCSS
Front-End Engineer
American Express, London | 2020 - 2021
-
Responsible for creating and maintaining performant, acessible ReactJS and JS components used across the organisation's online presence.
-
Created tools that allow us to measure how our components are being used. Versions, bundle size, accessiblity, best practices and SEO impacts are tracked automatically.
JS, ReactJS, Jest, Redux, GatsbyJS, Emotion, Styled Components, Sketch, Invision
UX Engineer
American Express, London | 2019 - 2020
-
Developed a new referral experience that features enhanced referral rewards for platinum and gold card members. It has engaged with 600,000 customers to date.
-
Created a self-service automation tool for assesing a webpage's performance, accessibilty and generating screenshots of the page for multiple view ports. This has increased the ability for markets to self service, reducing the need to engage engineers to acquire this information.
-
Facilitated design sprints and lightening decision jams to help the team ideate.
-
Built web-ready animations, onboarding experiences, faster sites in newer frameworks and chat bots.
User Experience, Rapid Prototyping, JS, Typescript, ReactJS, Redux, GatsbyJS, GraphQL, Node, Express, Electron, Adobe Suite, Sketch, Invision
Graduate UX Designer
American Express, Burgess Hill | 2019
-
Conducted research into how we could improve elements of the referral hub. This included competitor analysis, analysis of existing site, creation of personas, wireframes and mockups.
-
Built a prototype for a research archive that summarises, tags, intelligently links and prioritises research for better design decisions.
-
Was the only graduate in my cohort to formally manage interns and have gone on to be the youngest engineer to manage graduates
User Experience, User Research, User Testing, JS, ReactJS, GatsbyJS, GraphQL, Sketch, Invision, Python
Graduate Front-End Engineer
American Express, Burgess Hill | 2018 - 2019
-
Designed and built GRAD, a hub for technology onboarding. The collection initially intended for graduates, is being used campus-wide and receives over 250 unique vistors a month and has accumulated over 20,000 views.
-
Replaced uses of Oracle forms (legacy software) in Loyalty. By doing so we no longer need to pay for extended support reducing development costs by half.
Internal Tooling, Analytics, JS, ReactJS, Redux, Node, Sketch, Java