Gary Neil Cole

Gary Neil Cole Full Stack Developer- Portfolio GitHub Summary Skills Full Stack Developer with 5+ years of international experience across Japan and the UK, focused on delivering scalable, secure, production-grade web applications. Practical expertise in building modern front-end architectures, robust back-end APIs, and efficient data storage solutions. Experienced in cloud deployments, microservices, CI/CD automation and performance tuning. Combines technical rigor with an eye for usercentred design to ship reliable products. HTML5 / CSS3 Experience GraphQL / REST BrightWave Tech Solutions — Full Stack Developer Jun 2023 — Present Key contributions Led implementation of a multi-tenant SaaS dashboard with React, Redux and Tailwind CSS, supporting 1,000+ active users and modular feature rollouts. Architected Node.js/Express microservices and API gateway to improve service isolation and scale horizontally under peak load. Integrated payments (Stripe), storage (AWS S3) and reliable email workflows (SendGrid) to complete end-to-end product flows. Built Docker-based CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, trimming deployment time and rollback complexity by ~40%. Reduced front-end bundle size and improved perceived load times via code-splitting and lazy-loading (≈25% improvement). Nexus Digital Solutions Ltd — Full Stack Developer Nov 2022 — Jun 2023 Key contributions Delivered enterprise-grade web applications using the MERN stack; designed RESTful APIs in Node.js and backend services in C#/.NET for internal and external integrations. Scaled data processing pipelines to handle 50k+ daily transactions through batching, indexing and optimized queries. Improved database performance with targeted indexing and query refactors, cutting median query time by ~40% for reporting jobs. Collaborated within Agile squads to ensure consistent sprint deliveries and rapid feedback cycles. Kawa Software — Software Developer Apr 2020 — Oct 2022 Key contributions Built finance and logistics features using C# and .NET Core with a focus on correctness and reliability for business-critical workflows. Designed optimized schemas for MySQL and MongoDB that reduced report generation time by 25% for daily operational reports. Implemented authentication & role-based access control to harden application security. Developed responsive React front-ends that improved usability and reduced support tickets related to UI issues. Key Achievements 20% 50% 85% 30% Infrastructure cost reduction via containerization and AWS optimisations Unit & integration test coverage achieved, improving release reliability Faster API responses after implementing caching and load balancing Data throughput improvement through schema redesign and backend refactors TypeScript JavaScript (ES6+) React Next.js Vue.js Node.js Express Redux Tailwind CSS C# / .NET Core MySQL / PostgreSQL MongoDB / Mongoose Redis AWS (S3, EC2, Lambda) Docker GitHub Actions / CI-CD Jest / Cypress Figma (collab) Education B.Sc. Software Engineering Niigata University, Japan — Graduated Mar 2020 Dissertation: A Comparative Analysis of NoSQL Databases for Real-Time Web Applications Additional Languages: English (fluent), Japanese (intermediate) Hobbies: Digital & traditional illustration, skiing, football — creative skills that enhance UI/UX sensibility.