Reece Selwood
contact@alligatr.co.uk

Bio

I'm Reece, a senior software developer based in Kent in the UK.

I work mainly in C#, SQL and Go. I also have extensive frontend experience in React and TypeScript. I enjoy working on complex systems and I'm comfortable in a wide variety of languages.


Experience

Senior Software Engineer
Sirius Insight, Remote
2024 - Present

At Sirius, I work on a small team developing an ingestion pipeline and UI for storing and displaying AIS vessel data.

  • Worked on a complex Azure-based ingestion pipeline processing a high volume of data
  • Worked on a real-time map UI, using Tile38 for geospatial and InfluxDB for time-series data
  • Worked on a third-party integration with WhatsApp for notifying users
Senior Software Engineer
Calero MDSL, Tunbridge Wells
2020 - 2024

I became a Senior Software Engineer at Calero MDSL in early 2020 and moved to a new team, working on an Azure-hosted project with a React frontend, and a C# microservice based backend. The project was written by external contractors, and my team had to understand and take ownership of it.

  • Worked on all areas of the stack, including devops adjacent tasks like automating the creation of new databases
  • Helped define new development processes
  • Mentored junior developers
  • Served as scrum master
Software Engineer
Calero MDSL, Tunbridge Wells
2014 - 2020

I started as a frontend developer and progressed to a full-stack developer, working on all areas of a React, ASP.NET and SQL Server stack.

  • Worked as part of a 5-7 person team implementing new features and supporting a large existing codebase.
  • Followed agile development practices and helped improve them within the team, eventually serving as scrum master.

Education

MSc Advanced Computer Science
The University of Kent, Canterbury
2013 - 2014
  • Graduated with distinction.
  • Dissertation: Visualising Student Satisfaction. An interactive, web-based visualisation to display and group comments from the National Student Survey. Created using Java, JavaScript and d3js.
BSc (Hons) Computer Science
Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
2008 - 2011
  • Graduated with a 2:1.
  • Completed a major piece of work to generate music with evolutionary algorithms using Python.

Interests

Programming Languages

I wrote my own language in the summer of 2020 as a learning exercise and have since written a handful more. I find all parts of that process fascinating and want to continue learning and experimenting with my own languages.

Music

I play guitar and bass and enjoy jamming with friends.