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. Led the team's AI practice: GitHub Copilot, then Cursor, with review and triage pipelines and Datadog MCP. 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).

Selected career highlights

  • Architected a national sports LMS (Vue/GraphQL, offline companion app, AWS) that reached £50k+ revenue in its first month.
  • Implemented SSO and unified profiling across 10+ applications, plus federated search (Typesense) across that ecosystem.
  • Introduced GitHub Copilot then Cursor across the team, with AI code-review and ticket-triage pipelines and Datadog MCP for logs-to-tickets.
  • Migrated properties with 40k+ posts with minimal downtime, and led CI/CD plus a team of 5 through stack modernisation.

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

    AI-assisted 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.
    • Introduced GitHub Copilot to the team, then moved the practice to Cursor. Built pipelines for AI code review and ticket triage, and MCP connections (including Datadog) so AI could read logs and link them to tickets.
    • Built a live match-reporting product using real-time API data, custom commentary, and themable packaging for multiple clients.
    • 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.
    • Introduced GitHub Copilot into the team's development workflow.
    • 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, reducing the 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.