Ray Blair
Lead Software Engineer at Wordnerds
North Tyneside, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRay Blair is a Lead Software Engineer with nine years’ experience designing and delivering full-stack web applications across eCommerce, financial services and SaaS for UK clients. He combines hands-on PHP and JavaScript (Laravel/Vue) development with architecture, CI/CD and security-focused operational leadership, having led teams and tech strategy from agency builds to enterprise consulting. At EPAM and W8R he drove standards improvements—testing, static analysis, profiling—and mentored client teams through knowledge transfer and operational best practices. Now at Wordnerds, he continues to scale product engineering while keeping an eye on accessibility, SEO and performance. Based in North Tyneside, he pairs practical engineering with a knack for turning integration-heavy business problems into automated, maintainable platforms.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computing and IT & Maths Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computing and IT & Maths Computer Software Engineering at The Open University
English
Github Skills (56)
csr10
nuxt10
laravel10
nuxt-template10
full-stack10
php10
hydration10
vue10
laravel-framework10
static-site-generator9
typescript9
php-api9
hybrid9
robots-txt8
api8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rayblair06/rayblair06
Nov 2020 - Feb 2025
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
rayblair06/react-mentoring-program-2022
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
EPAM - React Mentoring Program 2022
Contributions:13 commits, 5 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 months
epamreactjsreactmentoring
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