Full stack software engineer based in the UK. I dabbled with code at school and briefly at university, but chose careers in property management and financial advice first.
Paperwork is what pulled me back. I got tired of filling it in and started building increasingly complex spreadsheets to organise and automate the process — which led to freeCodeCamp, Makers, and a lot of hard graft at MVF as I climbed the career ladder through covid.
Claude Code · AI · Agentic Engineering · React · GraphQL / Apollo · TypeScript · Node · Docker · AWS · Redis · Jest · Playwright · CircleCI · Datadog
Microservices, Backend For Frontend (BFF) patterns, lead-gen tooling, and keeping production systems running.
- Helping to deliver solutions and making life easier
- Supporting others and trying to do some good
- Writing readable, well-named code over clever code
- Tests that catch real bugs, not just lines on a coverage report
- Guards and defensive coding with logs and monitors to support visibility
- Automating processes that are repeated
- Leaving codebases tidier than I found them and keeping up to date with maintenance
- Finding the right balance between short term feature delivery and tech debt
| Repo | Description | Deployment |
|---|---|---|
| argus | Pull Request Tool for Teams | https://argus-blush-chi.vercel.app/ |
| halcyon | Complex fullstack personal finance app | https://balanced.money |
| balanced-money-backend | Personal finance backend project | |
| CV | Markdown to pdf CV tool | https://github.com/JRRS1982/CV/blob/master/public/jeremy_smith_cv.pdf |
| jeremysmith.co.uk | Portfolio and blog | https://jeremysmith.co.uk |