Simon Aunér.

I joined the web team to accelerate the migration of BookBeat’s public website from its existing React platform to Next.js. Alongside the migration, I implemented BookBeat’s new visual identity in our shared component library, working closely with UX and design to establish a design system. I set up the build and publishing pipeline so teams could consume the library as an internal npm package.

I also migrated the project’s CI pipeline from CircleCI to Azure Pipelines and moved logging to New Relic. This aligned the website’s tooling with the rest of the company and made it possible to trace calls through the entire stack.

As tech lead for the Content Controlling sub-team, I helped plan and execute a database migration from Azure Table Storage to RavenDB for a complex .NET service. We moved traffic gradually while keeping both databases live, completing the migration with zero downtime. The migration addressed growing data volumes and the need for better performance and a richer feature set.

The team owned content pricing, reporting and the publisher portal. I planned and organized development work and collaborated with other parts of the company on requirements and delivery.

I also modernized the portal’s React frontend, moving from Redux and MobX to Redux Toolkit Query and replacing an older internal UI library with Ant Design. Alongside this, I updated the application’s build tooling and deployment setup.

I led a team of five developers responsible for around ten .NET microservices and two React web applications, covering content ingestion, curation and reporting. I joined as interim team lead during the existing lead’s parental leave.

The assignment coincided with the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, so a major focus was keeping our working process effective during the shift to remote work. Alongside team leadership, I continued hands-on backend development. We owned the full delivery lifecycle, from requirements and design through development, deployment, monitoring and support.

BookBeat’s marketing team needed a campaign engine to tailor customer offers to different stages of the customer journey and other customer attributes. Drawing on my experience at Mr Green, I worked with business stakeholders to define the feature set and helped design and implement the service.

We launched the engine in time for a major business partnership.

In BookBeat’s Engineering team, I worked on developer experience and the backend platform. I migrated several microservices from .NET Framework and Entity Framework 6 to .NET Core and EF Core, researched how to run them on Linux, and helped deploy them to Azure Kubernetes Service.

I also researched and implemented shared pipeline templates for moving .NET services from TeamCity to Azure Pipelines, laying the groundwork for container builds.

As a technical program manager in GameTek’s management team, I worked with the chief architect, tech leads and product owners to plan the evolution of the technical platform. My responsibility was to connect future business needs with technical priorities and coordinate platform planning across the organization.

I led frontend development as Mr Green moved from a server-rendered .NET website to a mobile-first AngularJS SPA backed by a REST API. A central challenge was supporting two brands, multiple markets and different feature configurations within a shared platform.

I focused on testing, code quality and reusable, configurable components so each brand could select the features it needed. I also took responsibility for recruitment, planning and technical quality in a team of up to ten developers.

I joined Mr Green as a frontend developer through Netlight, working across the frontend and backend of the mobile website using .NET and jQuery Mobile.

I was then selected to join the team developing a new AngularJS SPA to replace both the desktop and mobile websites.

I joined Net Entertainment through Netlight to lead development in a new JavaScript gaming team. At the time, its games were built in Flash, and the move to mobile required a new approach that would work on iPhones.

I designed the architecture of the game client framework using CSS3 animations and HTML5 audio, technologies that were still experimental for this use case. I continued developing the framework to support new games and features.

My role expanded into team leadership, recruitment and establishing additional game development teams. I later took on scrum master and project management responsibilities for JavaScript game releases, coordinating release planning and delivery across the teams.