Summary
Daniel Jones is a pragmatic software engineer with eight years' experience translating business needs into reliable code, currently building customer-facing systems at Compare the Market. Trained at Makers Academy, he combines TDD/BDD discipline with hands-on experience across SQL, Ruby, JavaScript and Swift—comfortable moving between backend data work and front-end or mobile prototypes. Early career roles in trade promotion management honed his SQL tuning and deployment skills while retail merchandising taught him to prioritise outcomes and stakeholder communication. He enjoys breaking large problems into small, testable pieces and has a portfolio of small focused projects (including an iOS Bluetooth messenger and TDD-driven bank kata) demonstrating quick iteration and learning agility. Based in England, he brings a practical, performance-minded approach to engineering with a knack for turning messy legacy code into maintainable features.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Psychology, 2:2, Bachelor’s Degree, Psychology, 2:2 at University of Liverpool