Luke Quinnell

Cardiff, Wales · United Kingdom · luke@-remove-lukequinnell.com

Educated to a first-class honors degree level, an ambitious, enthusiastic and knowledgeable Engineering Manager with over 15 years experience within the industry. A proven ability to manage and complete projects to the highest standard, with a meticulous attention to detail. Release management, team leadership and stakeholder communication skills are used on a day-to-day basis and are very much enjoyed.

Skills

Leadership
  • - Team leadership
  • - Line manager for Lead, Senior & Junior Engineers
  • - Career progression frameworks
  • - Coaching, mentoring & training
  • - Recruitment
  • - Domain documentation
  • - Demoing and presenting to stakeholders
Architecture
  • IP Networking
  • DNS
  • Firewalls
  • Load Balancing
  • Microservices
  • RESTful APIs
  • SaaS/PaaS/IaaS
Languages, Operating Systems & Tools
  • PHP
  • Doctrine
  • Node.js
  • jQuery
  • JavaScript
  • Linux
  • Travis
  • GIT
  • bash
Platform Development & Administration
  • GitHub
  • Bitbucket
  • OpenShift
  • Vagrant
  • Ansible
  • NGINX
  • Symfony
  • MySQL
  • Atlassian
  • Wordpress
Containers & Cloud

Experience

Engineering Manager

Crowdcube, Cardiff

Engineering Manager

April 2022 to present

Lead Engineer & Team Lead

Crowdcube, Cardiff

Lead Engineer & Team Lead

January 2022 to April 2022

Senior Software Engineer

Crowdcube, Cardiff

Senior Software Engineer

October 2019 to January 2022

Senior Software Engineer

GoCompare, Newport

Senior Software Engineer

February 2019 to October 2019

Software Development Manager

Bartholomew Hawkins, Cardiff

Software Development Manager

October 2016 to February 2019

Software Developer

Bartholomew Hawkins, Cardiff

Software Developer

September 2015 to October 2016

Principal Developer

Box UK, Cardiff

Project lead on a second British Horse Racing Authority project that involves delivering industry-changing applications for the client.

January 2014 to September 2015

Senior Developer

Box UK, Cardiff

Project lead on UNISON’s migration over to Box UK’s CMS. Main point of contact for the client and responsible for moving the project from QA to UAT and finally to production.

December 2012 January 2014

Developer

Box UK, Cardiff

This role involved maintaining Box UK’s high-level XML-based Content Management System (Amaxus), which has been developed at an enterprise level. The CMS has been supporting clients such as Investec, British Energy, Royal Navy and The National Gallery.

September 2007 to December 2012

Developer

UK Digital Solutions, Cardiff

The company approached me at the end of my university course. The position required skills to produce comprehensive e-commerce, traditional commerce and online/offline marketing-related solutions.

June 2006 to September 2007

Education

University of Glamorgan

BSc (Hons) Degree in Internet Computing 1st class
Advanced Internet Development, Database Development, E-Commerce Systems & Strategy, E-Learning & Assessment, Interactive Multimedia & Hypermedia, Research Methods, Level 3 Project
Oct 2005 to June 2006

University of Glamorgan

Cisco Qualifications – Completion of CCNA 1 & 2 courses
Feb 2005 to June 2005

University of Glamorgan

HND in Computing (Internet Development)
Information & Communications Tech ICT, Problem Solving & Professional Development, Website Development, Project, Event Driven Programming, Object Oriented Analysis, Introduction to Graphics and Animation
Sept 2002 to June 2005

Coleg Glan Hafren

BTEC National Diploma in Computing (Software Development)
Jun 2000 to Feb 2002

Coleg Glan Hafren

BTEC First Diploma in Computing (Information Technology Applications)
Sept 1998 to June 1999