Laura Weatherhead CV

Umbraco headless solution with personalised content and a NuxtJs front-end

Creating a headless Umbraco platform that is able to deliver content to multiple front-ends in a dynamic personalised format.

My role was as a lead server-side developer specialising in API and Umbraco development, and working closely with the Front-end to ensure appropriate data architecture.

Rebuilding a Wordpress site using NextJS and GraphQL

A straight rebuild of an existing knowledge-base type site using NextJS as the new platform and GraphQL to deliver the content from the client.

My role was as lead developer on the new solution including architecture, scoping, proof of concept and production.

v8 to v10 migration

Migration of a large multi-tenant Umbraco site from version 8 to version 10. There were a number of custom property editors the increased the complexity of this migration as well as a custom Examine Lucene implementation and a number of third-party API integrations that required porting from Framework to Core.

Migration from Umbravo v8 to v10

Aims of the project were to move a complex e-commerce user journey from an Umbraco v8 site to a brand new v10 site. This included recreating data types with newer paradigms, improving technical quality and reducing technical debt.

Multi-lingual and localisation features

Extended an existing Umbraco 7 travel site with new localisation and multi-lingual functionality to allow for access from countries across the world with configurable options.

Maintained and extended a large-scale commercial AngularJS web application

Worked on a large-scale commercial AngularJS driven web application for enterprise level facilities management. Functionality operates across multiple web platforms, iOS apps and a VB desktop app – current integrations bring these disparate areas together to create a coherent structure for business requirements and future customers.

Worked as part of multi-disciplinary 25-strong team of developers to create business value and improve existing functionality in an Agile environment using SCRUM methodologies and 2 week sprints.

.NET Core based utilities application for managing subscriptions

Simplified subscription management web app built using .NET Core and Vue

CV site built using NextJs and Contentful

Short proof of concept CV site to store a "living CV" of contract, freelance and open source roles using NextJS (React). Contentful is utilised to easily update and manage content and deliver to the NextJS site using GraphQL

Extending existing B2B site with new features

My role included working with an existing team to extend a large Business-to-Business commercial site with new features and supporting existing functionality. Server side was supported by .NET Core and the front-end was a complex VueJS implementation.

Porting static .NET site to be a functional ReactJS app

This project involved an existing site with a large number of complex search documents (including geolocational and personalisation data) which has been previously built using .NET Framework with post backs between search pages and complex querystrings to keep track of user journeys. We rebuilt the site in a more up-to-date version of Umbraco and rebuilt the search to use ReactJs complete with complex state management in Redux.

Moving the Umbraco Back-Office from AngularJS to Web Components

Part of the community team used as a sounding-board for the next major update of the Umbraco Back-Office technology. The Back-Office has used AngularJS since Umbraco v7 and work has begun to strip away AngularJS in favour of moving to a more agnostic implementation of Web Components; this is currently slated for a major release in late 2023.

Umbraco Kent Meet-ups

Co-organise the Umbraco Kent Meet-up with Mike Masey and Justin Neville.

Our past and upcoming events can be seen on Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Kent-Umbraco-Meetup/

Manage and triage PRs for large open-source project

As part of the Core Collaborator's Umbraco community team, my role was to assist new and experienced contributors to the large Umbraco open-source eco-system by feeding back on their PRs and merging to the contrib branch where appropriate