Martin Burford
Front-End Developer
Creative Technologist / React Developer
Lloyds Bank
- January 2019 - July 2019
- London, UK
Role overview
- I was the sole Front-End Developer on the Strong Customer Authentication team.
- Created a single page React / Redux application which acted as a clickable prototype for user research sessions, to help determine which variants of multiple CX journeys were best received by members of the general public.
- 8x separate journeys comprising of approximately 70 different steps were built into the SPA.
- 6x separate languages (via i18Next) were supported.
- 4x separate branding / styles were supported.
- 2x separate ECMA Script modules were published as part of the project, 1 of which was consumed by an external team.
- I wrote a comprehensive styleguide (using Styleguidist) to compliment the React components of the project for both Developers to the project in the future along with the integration team who took the code and integrated in back-end functionality.
- I wrote a recursive screenshot generator, which took screenshots for each step (React route) in a given journey via a headless browser, before zipping up the screens and archiving them on GitHub.
- I wrote a comprehensive Excel export routine which generated JSON translation files automatically from an Excel spreadsheet. This was also built to fully support the concept of nested content within the Excel file. Upon export, the Excel data was then converted to nested JSON data.
Technologies used
Code samples
Examples of code are available to view for this role. All code provided was 100% written by myself with no other Developers involved.
Recommendations
Sharif MackySenior Associate
A highly organised developer with good technical analytical skills. Super attentive to details. His insistence on getting things done right are second to none yet always manages to deliver on time. He also has a keen willingness to help out. Overall it was a pleasure working with Martin and someone I'd enjoy working with again.
Andrea AgueciUX Researcher
I had the pleasure of working with Martin on the Strong Customer Authentication programme at Lloyds Banking Group. He was instrumental in the creation and maintenance of several customer research prototypes and I particularly appreciated his ability to quickly produce multiple iterations in response to user feedback. When required, Martin also delivered bespoke solutions to address specific project challenges like copy management and prototype archiving. The quality of his documentation and his ability to keep the team up to date about the state of the codebase were equally impressive.
Dan KupferSenior Creative Technology Lead
Martin is an extremely competent and thorough developer. Very committed and reliable, he's someone that will get the job done efficiently, neatly, with a lot of care for the detail but above all, very well thought through so it's really well documented and well tested making collaboration a seamless part of the agile workflow.
Sam KnessUX Designer
I worked with Martin for close to 7 months at Lloyds. I’m a UX Designer and he was the developer in our team. He is extremely knowledgeable in what he does and also has the added bonus of writing code in the best way for the end user too, which is a rare talent amongst developers in my experience. He is tenacious and hard working in his approach to work and I found him very easy to work with. I really enjoyed working with Martin and would welcome the opportunity to work with him again in the future.