Gwynfor Hockridge

Senior Software Engineer

Professional summary

Senior software engineer with lead experience across Vue/Nuxt, GraphQL, and AWS-backed platforms. Recent work includes architecting a national sports LMS (mobile offline access, certifications, £50k+ first-month revenue) and SSO/search across a 10+ app ecosystem. Background in high-traffic game-studio sites and agency delivery. Based in Perth, Western Australia; currently completing a Master of Management Information Systems at Edith Cowan University (from 2026).

Key skills

  • Product & front-end

    Vue 3 · Nuxt · TypeScript · React · Tailwind · CSS/SCSS · GraphQL · REST

  • Platform & infrastructure

    AWS · Laravel · SQLite/offline sync · Typesense · SSO · CI/CD · Git

  • Craft & delivery

    Three.js · GSAP · accessibility · code review · Agile delivery · team leadership

Experience

  • høppstudio Senior Developer

    2024 – May 2026

    • Architected a CMS-driven LMS for a national sports organisation — structured courses, assessments, certifications, analytics, and a cross-platform Vue/GraphQL mobile app with SQLite offline sync; £50k+ revenue in the first month.
    • Built a live match-reporting product using real-time API data, custom commentary, and themable packaging for multiple clients.
    • Delivered a Nuxt PWA social platform with GraphQL to a headless CMS, including gamification and leaderboards.
    • Implemented AWS-based SSO and unified user profiling across 10+ digital applications, improving engagement tracking and cross-app insights.
    • Designed a federated search API (Typesense) aggregating content types from multiple apps.
    • Led stack modernisation (Vue, Nuxt, Laravel) and mentored a team of 5; established code review, release pipelines, and deployment workflows.

  • 1minus1 Senior Developer

    2020 – 2023

    • Built bespoke websites and PWAs for major game studios (e.g. Forza franchise hub), partnering with design on interactive animation and accessible, high-traffic launches.
    • Led CI/CD adoption across AWS, DigitalOcean, Cloudflare, and Git-based workflows.
    • Migrated large-scale properties (40k+ posts) from legacy CMS platforms with minimal downtime.
    • Introduced Three.js interactive experiences and comprehensive unit testing for core features.
    • Helped scale the studio from 2 to 6+ developers and 5 to 20+ staff; established code standards and review practices.

  • Protech Commercial Kitchens Web & Digital Marketing

    Feb – May 2020 · Sydney, Australia

    • Short-term contract delivering custom JavaScript/PHP contact forms and Google Tag Manager event tracking for conversion measurement.

  • Inky the Squid Independent Developer

    2016 – present

    • Delivered custom WordPress and Vue sites for clients in the UK, New Zealand, and Australia — translating Figma designs into production themes and interactive pages.
    • Contracted to digital agencies on theme builds, performance, and design-to-code delivery.

  • University of Kent & Kent Business School Web Developer / Consultant

    2014 – 2018 · Canterbury, UK

    • Strategic lead on Kent Business School website redesign — reduced site from 500+ to under 50 pages while coordinating central web teams and stakeholders.
    • Managed a team of 5 staff delivering platform updates and essential services university-wide.
    • Rolled out a research promotion platform and central news publishing network across multiple sites.
    • Scoped projects, wrote client agreements, and delivered training/documentation for central teams.

Education

  • Master of Management Information Systems (in progress)

    2026 – present

    Edith Cowan University · Perth, Western Australia

  • Higher Diploma in Economics

    2014 – 2015

    University of Kent · Canterbury, UK

Selected projects

References available on request.