Patrick Pilgrim

Software Engineer | Full Stack Web Developer

United Kingdom

About

Experience

  • Freelance at Self-employed / Professional Development
    May 2025 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos

    Built and maintained full-stack web experiences for small businesses, with a focus on clean, maintainable codebases. Developed a client booking system and admin panel using an AI-accelerated workflow, delivering production ready features ahead of schedule with rigorous manual code review throughout. Engineered AI-augmented development pipelines integrating local and cloud-based models (Ollama, Claude Code, OpenRouter) for rapid prototyping, debugging, and test generation on side projects. Completed Cyber Security training and home lab experimentation.

  • Full Stack Web Developer at Absowebly Ltd
    May 2025 - Jun 2025 · 2 mos

    Worked across several projects, including a POS app for ticket sales, affiliate dashboard for a travel agency, email marketing, and CSP updates, using Javascript, PHP, MySQL, CSS to implement new bespoke features and/or updating existing functionality.

  • Sky (Hybrid)
    • Developer
      Sep 2023 - Nov 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

      Developed and maintained thousands of global transactional communication templates, using Typescript, CSS, Node.js and MJML, which were sent to millions of customers across 70+ territories, served by Sky's streaming offerings. Implemented several unit and visual regression tests using Jest and Cypress, and improved CI/CD pipelines and processes in Concourse.

    • Associate Developer
      Oct 2022 - Sep 2023 · 1 yr

  • Cisco (3 yrs 9 mos)
    • Software Engineer
      Feb 2021 - Oct 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos

      Developed and maintained multiple internal apps and tools used in the dCloud ecosystem using React, AngularJS, Redux and TypeScript. Maintained 80% test coverage using Jest, Enzyme, React-Testing-Library, Jasmine and Cypress.

    • UI Engineer
      Feb 2019 - Feb 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Web Developer at Absowebly Ltd
    May 2017 - Sep 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos

    Referenced new in-house designs to build pixel-perfect UIs for: TruTravels, Celtic Group Hostels, Engys, UGM, Dublin Sightseeing Tours, GhostBus, SGT - supporting browsers as old as IE 9, 8 and 7. Implemented custom Google Analytics using JavaScript for capturing user activity, giving clients valuable insight into which content or products their users are most interested in on their website. Referenced W3C standards to analyse and improve performance, accessibility and SEO.