Jack Cruden
Lead Developer at SmartSearch
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJack Cruden is a Lead Developer and entrepreneur with 10 years of experience building web and roster management systems from concept to production. As Managing Director of WeRoster he blends product leadership with hands-on engineering to deliver staff management and scheduling platforms used in live operations. He currently leads development at SmartSearch while maintaining a freelance practice optimising e-commerce sites and custom web builds, demonstrating a pragmatic full-stack skillset. His background in design innovation and tutoring physical computing gives him a rare mix of user-focused design thinking and practical technical teaching experience. Having managed large residential communities and complex student databases overseas, he brings strong operational empathy and stakeholder management to technical projects. Based in Leeds, Jack is known for shipping customer-facing solutions that balance usability, search discoverability, and maintainability.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
National Certificate of Educational Achievement, National Certificate of Educational Achievement at Coastal Taranaki SchoolBachelor of Design Innovation Media Design, Bachelor of Design Innovation Media Design at Victoria University of Wellington
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Github Skills (27)
laravel9
php9
p5js8
twitter8
eloquent7
javascript7
full-stack7
html7
laravel-framework6
tailwindcss6
media-library6
laravel-package6
debugging6
artisan6
react5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jackcruden/sketches
Mar 2019 - Aug 2020
Contributions:15 commits, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
jackcruden/jack.kiwi
May 2019 - Dec 2024
My personal website
Contributions:30 PRs, 60 pushes, 12 branches in 5 years 7 months
reacttailwindcsslaravelnextjsvuejs
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