Hi my name is Patrick Collings,
I'm a full-stack web developer

An award winning audience engagement and hybrid virtual event platform.

Part of a small team of developers working on an enterprise grade platform with peak levels of 100K+ simultaneous clients. Given huge amounts of responsibility with the product. Planned, archictected and implemented an entire new authentication system from scratch.

Driving force behind setting up automated integration tests within the CI/CD pipeline.

Promoted to senior after 1.5 years, provided support for other developers and helped make key business / product decisions.

LEEP informs governments, businesses and communities on how to manage land and environment.

Website commisioned by DEFRA through the University of Exeter.

Built the entire front and backend together with one other developer.

Still involved with the maintenance and future proofing of the website in spare time.

Designed, developed and deployed a platform to help users compare prices and plan their aquarium.

Marketed and improved SEO of the platform to increase organic reach. Currently received just over 5000 unique visitors, with 300 registered accounts.

Scraped and analysed data for over 10,000 items from various websites.

Huge improvements in website speed and SEO by implementing Server Side Rendering.

Providing phishing awareness through simulation and training

Led the early stages of direction and development of the product.

Created a MEAN stack application and deployed using Heroku. Also took charge in setting up a marketing website for prospective investors.

Developed a working prototype before parting ways to progress my career.

Managed a 10 person committee to organise and run events for 150 students.

Worked with a variety of partners including an extremely successful Met Office hackathon.

Prepared, organised and presented a web development course to 200+ students across six sessions.

Taught students the basics of CSS, Javascript and HTML with the end goal to create a weather page.