Joe Derby

Joe Derby

Full-Stack Developer & DevOps Engineer

Pixels, Payloads and Pipelines

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joe@nomad-code.dev
+44(0)7728769784

> cd ~ && whoami

nomad@code:~$

Rapidly approaching two decades of building websites and applications. I enjoy solving complex problems and turning visions into reality. I have a passion for most things tech. Full-stack web development by day, indie game development and cyber security by night. Current focuses include learning Android development with Kotlin, studying for Offsec's OSCP and the AWS Solutions Architect certification.

Usually based in the UK between Bristol and London, I travel to Europe often, working in a nomadic capacity.

> cat skills.txt

TypeScript TypeScript
Node.js Node.js
PHP PHP
React React
NextJS NextJS
Vue.js Vue.js
Nuxt Nuxt
Laravel Laravel
Python Python
MySQL MySQL
PostgreSQL PostgreSQL
MongoDB MongoDB
Redis Redis
Jest Jest
PHPUnit PHPUnit
LLM Engineering LLM Engineering
Microservices Microservices
Terraform Terraform
Docker Docker
AWS AWS
AWS CDK AWS CDK
AWS Lambda AWS Lambda
AWS ECS AWS ECS
AWS CloudFront AWS CloudFront
Much more... Much more...

> cd ~/projects && ls

nomad@code:~/projects$

NUCO Travel

NUCO Travel

Full Stack Engineer – Contract, Remote

Scalable travel booking platform powering multiple holiday brands. Delivered for critical 2024/2025 season, handling high-traffic, real-time bookings, and robust CI/CD support.

Live Project
Superdry

Superdry

Full Stack Engineer – Contract, Hybrid

Co-led development of superdrywholesale.com, Superdry's global B2B platform. Supported thousands of global retailers, integrated with ERP and financial systems, praised for it's security and reliability. Multi-lingual and multi-currency.

Live Project
Immediate Media

Immediate Media

Web Developer – Contract, Remote

Built sales portals for Immediate Media, integrated with their American counterparts IMS News International, supporting custom reporting and analytics across their platforms.

Mr B & Friends

Mr B & Friends

Web Developer – Contract, On-Site

I worked with Mr B & Friends to build various sites for their clients. Projects spanned Shopify, WordPress, and custom web apps. To this day their designers created some of the most beautiful and unique sites I have ever seen.

Push Retail

Push Retail

Full Stack Engineer – Contract, Hybrid

Led architectural redesign and redevelopment of legacy e-commerce and marketing platforms for hundreds of cycling retailers. Built scalable APIs and CI/CD pipelines on AWS for multi-stage rollout.

Nudge Digital

Nudge Digital

Project Manager & Frontend Developer – Permanent, On-Site

Project Manager & former front-end developer at Nudge Digital (now TPXImpact). Led teams and delivered digital projects for a variety of clients prior to company's acquisition in 2021.

Keystone Systems (my company)

Keystone Systems (my company)

Full Stack Engineer, Founder

Since my last contract I have been working on a new app and large-scale B2C web application due to launch later this year. Passion project focused on LLM/AI use cases for business, leveraging a hybrid of legacy and agentic microservices.

Freelance

Freelance

Freelance

I have been contracting / freelancing for over 10 years. Projects ranged from bespoke web apps to large-scale B2C platforms, Wordpress and Drupal sites, React, Vue, Laravel and everything in between.