Oli Stogdale

– The Garden of Now is a cloud-hosted web-app for seasonal eating. With a library of over 8,000 recipes, it inspires cooks with recipe suggestions made entirely from local, in-season ingredients. – Designed, developed & shipped an MVP in 4 days, before adding features, refactoring code to production standard & deploying – Built a TypeScript data-processing pipeline to scrape, parse & normalise 18,000+ raw recipes from BBC Good Food – Designed a REST API with 10+ endpoints supporting authentication, recipe search, pagination & user favourite functionality – Built a modular, media-responsive Ul with 20+ reusable React components & graceful error-handling/request cancellation – Designed a global CSS design-token system using CSS variables to improve Ul consistency & maintainability – Wrote 50+ automated integration & unit tests, supporting core authentication & user flows, to reach ~85% coverage – Reduced API latency from ~410ms to ~180ms (55%) by moving filtering logic into MongoDB aggregation queries – Set up CI/CD workflow through GitHub Actions to manage deployment through AWS ECS/Fargate and S3/CloudFront

– A mobile-first journaling app rooted in Stoic philosophy, Apatheia delivers a calm, minimalist space for writing, powered by timeless quotes and intelligent prompts. – Worked with another developer to refactor legacy code, improving codebase maintainability & strengthening key user flows. – Centralised API request logic for 5 core user journeys across client & server, removing duplication & improving error handling – Migrated legacy JS modules to TypeScript, improving reliability & type safety and increasing TypeScript coverage to 82% – Implemented Cypress E2E regression tests, increasing coverage of core user pathways to ~70% to safeguard future development. – Achieved Lighthouse accessibility scores of 96-98 through semantic labelling, keyboard navigation and visible focus states – Added Zod schema-based validation across core routes, streamlining input checks & hardening API against invalid requests

– Collaborated with CF's data-analytics team in agile sprint cycles to fix bugs & improve Ul for a client's data mapping tool. – Refactored client-side search to server-driven regional lookup, improving performance and reducing client-side complexity – Condensed map visualisation logic into a reusable custom hook, resolving production bugs affecting app functionality – Optimised PDF generation logic to consolidate multi-region data-visualisation output into concise, single-page export

– Grapely is a web app that takes the mystery out of wine-buying, helping the average drinker choose the right bottle whatever the occasion. – As part of a team of five developers, we designed and developed an MVP for this project in just under a week. My responsibilities were primarily on the back-end, working with Express and Prisma to provide a type-safe server architecture that could efficiently handle calls to a relational database of thousands of wines. Additionally, I worked on developing, styling and testing specific front end features, using Chakra Ul to ensure a consistent visual look and feel across the site.

– In my time at Joint, I led the reinvention and day-to-day running of Amazon Business's global brand and advertising strategy. Working closely with Amazon's marketing team, I was responsible for synthesising insight from focus groups, quant surveys and data modelling to provide a coherent approach to the brand's communication and customer experience. Our work helped transform Amazon Business's fortunes, winnings its fair share of recognition in the process.

– At Havas, I was lucky enough to split my time across a range of different projects and challenges. Populist brands like the Open University and Durex offered a golden opportunity to craft insightful, engaging brand communication strategies. Businesses like Vanish, Lemsip and Finish demanded a nuanced appreciation of customer needs to create value through product innovation and user experience design.