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Samuel Larsen-Disney

www.sld.codes | s.larsendisney@gmail.com

Creative, collaborative and courageous developer with seven years experience in full-stack JS technologies and UX design. Always looking for the next challenge to improve customer experience and deepen engagement.

VISUALIZATIONS
EXPERIENCE

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer - AI & Data Governance

Amplitude, London | 2023 - Present

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Developed Data Assistant V2: a vastly more performant UI with an increased catalogue of personlised recommendations to improve your taxonomy.

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Researched and developed Data Explorer: a new way to explore your data and understand the relationships between your entities within Amplitude.

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Built system to create and send ~60,000 personalised Data Health Emails every week.

TypeScript, JS, ReactJS, Framer Motion, Cypress, Vanilla Extract, Jest, GraphQL, NextJS, NestJS, Postgres, Design Systems

Full-Stack Software Engineer - AI & Data Governance

Amplitude, London | 2022 - 2023

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Developed Data Assistant, intelligent recommendations to help make data governance effortless.

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Developed Amplitude Ask, ask any question and we'll make the chart powered by AI.

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Built the landing page for AI at Amplitude (amplitude.com/ai).

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Developed Data Home, a new home page for data governance within Amplitude.

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Introduced animation to governance product lines to improve user experience.

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Organiser of Amplitude's external hackathons (London & SF).

JS, ReactJS, Framer Motion, Cypress, Vanilla Extract, TypeScript, Jest, GraphQL, NextJS, Design Systems

Senior Front-End Engineer

Zone Digital, London | 2021 - 2022

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Built a global real world data analytics platform for the life sciences and healthcare industries.

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Built custom UI libraries for clients.

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Presenting new technologies to my engineering colleagues at 'Breakout Zone.'

Engineering Management, Design Agency, JS, ReactJS, Jest, TypeScript, NextJS

UX Engineer & Product Manager

Behaviour Lab, London | 2021

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Responsible for leading UI development of Behaviour Lab's SaaS product targeted at asset managers, private equity firms, insurance companies and executive boards.

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Built the company's component library, testing frameworks and setup CI/CD pipelines.

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Product managed the company's first commercial product. Planning its features with stake holders, highlighting cross functional dependencies and running agile ceremonies

Product Management, JS, ReactJS, Jest, TypeScript, GatsbyJS, NextJS, TailwindCSS

UX Engineer - Design Language System / Referrals

American Express, London | 2018 - 2021

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Responsible for creating and maintaining performant, acessible ReactJS and JS components used across the organisation's online presence.

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Created tools that allow us to measure how our components are being used. Versions, bundle size, accessiblity, best practices and SEO impacts are tracked automatically.

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Developed a new referral experience that features enhanced referral rewards for platinum and gold card members. It has engaged with 600,000 customers to date.

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Created a self-service automation tool for assesing a webpage's performance, accessibilty and generating screenshots of the page for multiple view ports. This has increased the ability for markets to self service, reducing the need to engage engineers to acquire this information.

JS, ReactJS, Jest, Redux, GatsbyJS, Emotion, Styled Components, Jest, NextJS, Invision

Experience dating back to the start of my career in 2017 is available upon request.
TECHNICAL SKILLS

Typescript

JavaScript

HTML

Node

ReactJS

Electron

Websockets

Redux

React Native

NestJS

NextJS

Express

GraphQL

Jenkins

Jest

Python

DESIGN EXPERTISE

User Research

Usability Testing

Visual Design

Design Sprints

DESIGN TOOLS

Figma

Sketch

Invision

After Effects

Illustrator

Photoshop

Premiere

AdobeXD

EDUCATION

Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence BSc - King's College London University

Dissertation on using visual search engines to combat fake news.

INTERESTS

Book Writing

"The Hackathon Survival Guide" | June 2022

"Elevating React Web Development with Gatsby" | Jan 2022

Hackathons

Attended 60+ hacks as an attendee, mentor or sponsor. I have a bit of a reputation for staying up all night.

This CV was coded in ReactJS.

Samuel Larsen-Disney

www.sld.codes | s.larsendisney@gmail.com

Creative, collaborative and courageous developer with seven years experience in full-stack JS technologies and UX design. Always looking for the next challenge to improve customer experience and deepen engagement.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Typescript

JavaScript

HTML

Node

ReactJS

Electron

Websockets

Redux

React Native

NestJS

NextJS

Express

GraphQL

Jenkins

Jest

Python

DESIGN EXPERTISE

User Research

Usability Testing

Visual Design

Design Sprints

DESIGN TOOLS

Figma

Sketch

Invision

After Effects

Illustrator

Photoshop

Premiere

AdobeXD

EDUCATION

Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence BSc - King's College London University

Dissertation on using visual search engines to combat fake news.

INTERESTS

Book Writing

"The Hackathon Survival Guide" | June 2022

"Elevating React Web Development with Gatsby" | Jan 2022

Hackathons

Attended 60+ hacks as an attendee, mentor or sponsor. I have a bit of a reputation for staying up all night.

This CV was coded in ReactJS.

VISUALIZATIONS
EXPERIENCE

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer - AI & Data Governance

Amplitude, London | 2023 - Present

-

Developed Data Assistant V2: a vastly more performant UI with an increased catalogue of personlised recommendations to improve your taxonomy.

-

Researched and developed Data Explorer: a new way to explore your data and understand the relationships between your entities within Amplitude.

-

Built system to create and send ~60,000 personalised Data Health Emails every week.

TypeScript, JS, ReactJS, Framer Motion, Cypress, Vanilla Extract, Jest, GraphQL, NextJS, NestJS, Postgres, Design Systems

Full-Stack Software Engineer - AI & Data Governance

Amplitude, London | 2022 - 2023

-

Developed Data Assistant, intelligent recommendations to help make data governance effortless.

-

Developed Amplitude Ask, ask any question and we'll make the chart powered by AI.

-

Built the landing page for AI at Amplitude (amplitude.com/ai).

-

Developed Data Home, a new home page for data governance within Amplitude.

-

Introduced animation to governance product lines to improve user experience.

-

Organiser of Amplitude's external hackathons (London & SF).

JS, ReactJS, Framer Motion, Cypress, Vanilla Extract, TypeScript, Jest, GraphQL, NextJS, Design Systems

Senior Front-End Engineer

Zone Digital, London | 2021 - 2022

-

Built a global real world data analytics platform for the life sciences and healthcare industries.

-

Built custom UI libraries for clients.

-

Presenting new technologies to my engineering colleagues at 'Breakout Zone.'

Engineering Management, Design Agency, JS, ReactJS, Jest, TypeScript, NextJS

UX Engineer & Product Manager

Behaviour Lab, London | 2021

-

Responsible for leading UI development of Behaviour Lab's SaaS product targeted at asset managers, private equity firms, insurance companies and executive boards.

-

Built the company's component library, testing frameworks and setup CI/CD pipelines.

-

Product managed the company's first commercial product. Planning its features with stake holders, highlighting cross functional dependencies and running agile ceremonies

Product Management, JS, ReactJS, Jest, TypeScript, GatsbyJS, NextJS, TailwindCSS

UX Engineer - Design Language System / Referrals

American Express, London | 2018 - 2021

-

Responsible for creating and maintaining performant, acessible ReactJS and JS components used across the organisation's online presence.

-

Created tools that allow us to measure how our components are being used. Versions, bundle size, accessiblity, best practices and SEO impacts are tracked automatically.

-

Developed a new referral experience that features enhanced referral rewards for platinum and gold card members. It has engaged with 600,000 customers to date.

-

Created a self-service automation tool for assesing a webpage's performance, accessibilty and generating screenshots of the page for multiple view ports. This has increased the ability for markets to self service, reducing the need to engage engineers to acquire this information.

JS, ReactJS, Jest, Redux, GatsbyJS, Emotion, Styled Components, Jest, NextJS, Invision

Experience dating back to the start of my career in 2017 is available upon request.