Robert Basden
Senior Full Stack Web Developer at HolidayExtras
Greater Reading Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Basden is a Senior Full Stack Web Developer with 11 years of experience building robust, test-driven microservices and customer-facing booking flows, currently leading backend Node/Postgres and front-end work at HolidayExtras. He has a proven track record of improving engineering practices and team delivery—having risen from developer to EMEAI development manager at NVIDIA where he introduced CI, version control and agile tooling. Comfortable working solo or driving cross-functional teams, he mentors junior engineers, gives internal tech talks and plays an active role in recruitment. His background spans Rails/Angular campaign systems used by tier-1 retailers, FileMaker integrations, and a technical director stint running a web agency—evidence of both hands-on coding and product-minded leadership. Based in the Greater Reading area, he combines pragmatic engineering discipline with a knack for turning complex stakeholder requirements into well-documented, maintainable systems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
bEng, Computer Systems Engineering, bEng, Computer Systems Engineering at Warwick UniversityOracle MySQL for DBAs, Oracle MySQL for DBAs at Oracle University
Github Skills (16)
elm8
validating5
css5
anagram4
api4
validation4
solve3
to-do3
documentation3
garden3
react2
markdown2
taskwarrior1
scheduling1
python1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
robertbasden/elm-concentration
Jun 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:9 commits, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
robertbasden/wordsmith-elm
Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:21 commits, 18 pushes, 3 branches in 10 months
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