Jamie Rees
Staff Engineer at Exclaimer
East Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJamie Rees is a Staff Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and leading full-stack .NET and JavaScript projects, currently driving engineering at Exclaimer. He combines strong QA and test-automation roots with architecture and team leadership, having led an eight-engineer team to launch a major microservices-based SaaS solution at myairops. Jamie has shipped customer-facing portals and finance systems using Angular and .NET Core while championing TDD and unit testing to reduce risk in production-critical systems. An active open-source contributor, he has improved the front-end experience for the popular Ombi media-requesting app and strengthened test coverage for a Windows remote administration tool. Based in East Hampshire, he spends spare time exploring new technologies and quietly experiments by integrating them into side projects—evidence of a continuous learner who prefers demonstrable improvements over buzzwords.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
National Diploma ICT Practitioners, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, National Diploma ICT Practitioners, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services at Ystrad Mynach College
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Github Skills (26)
test-automation10
unit-testing10
net10
dotnet10
asp-net10
front-end-development10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
angular10
webdriver9
selenium9
selenium-webdriver9
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asp-net-mvc9
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Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
Ombi-app/Ombi
Feb 2016 - Jan 2023
Want a Movie or TV Show on Plex/Emby/Jellyfin? Use Ombi!
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:225 releases, 90 reviews, 4276 commits in 7 years
Contributions summary:Jamie's primary focus was on enhancing the front-end user interface of the Ombi application. They introduced a profile image, along with improvements to the display of both movie and TV show details. They added various features related to user interface elements. These included the incorporation of a custom application URL setting that is then used for features in the front end.
windowsnetdataplexnzblinux
quasar/Quasar
May 2015 - Jul 2015
Remote Administration Tool for Windows
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 27 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Jamie primarily focused on enhancing the test suite within the project. Their contributions included adding new unit tests for encryption, compression, and geo-IP functionalities, as well as validating the functionality of uploading and executing .bat files. The user's work involved modifying existing test files and creating new ones, covering different aspects of the application's core features. These changes improved the test coverage and overall quality of the remote administration tool.
remoteprotobufremote-controlc-sharpwindows-10
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