Timo Laak

Creating the best home loan product on the market with a lean cross-functional team. As a senior full-stack engineer, I've been working on both front-end and back-end codebase in a fast-paced startup-like environment. For most of my time, I've been focussing on BAU items - including performance improvements and prod support.

Front-end development for their unstructured data analysis platform. I left early, as I was hired to do Node.js, but what they actually needed was a front-end growth engineer. My skill set and ways of working are more suitable for long-term product development, so there was a mismatch in the expectations on both sides.

After relocating to Australia, I joined Known who are building SMS based communication services. I was part of a team building their Conversr platform using React. My responsibilities also included starting a UI component library project in close collaboration with the designers. I did also get a small dip in backend development using Go, but majority of my tasks were programming in TypeScript.

Anaplan's Extensions and Integrations tribe was my professional home for a little bit over a year before I left London and UK behind. My team was responsible for the maintenance and development of DocuSign and Google Sheets integrations.

Building React and Node.js-based microservices in the Unsecured Personal Loans team.

My responsibilities also included leading the front-end development of a new greenfield project to automate document verification services, and co-hosting the internal Frontend Guild tech meet-up.

Building the next-generation platform for open banking. My main project was to build a greenfield analytics dashboard application using React, TypeScript and Highcharts.