David Haywood Smith
Lead QA at SportPursuit
David Haywood Smith
Lead QA at SportPursuit
Hexham, England
Overview
Work Experience
Lead QA
2012 - Current
Started as junior developer, now Lead QA. Part of the SportPursuit journey from 10 to 100+ employees - an epic adventure so far! 🏔
Founder
2005
Various projects; primarily social shopping concept wishli.st. Conceived idea in 2005. Designed and built first version launching in May 2007. Closed round of seed funding in March 2008. Launched professionally built site in June 2008. Re-launched as a Facebook app in December 2009. Participated in the first cohort of The Difference Engine startup accelerator March-May 2010. Used as holding company for various side projects since.
Developer
2012 - 2012
Short-term contract to build the first PHP client library for the GoCardless API.
Intern
2003 - 2003
Work experience at age 16; met the founder and requested a work experience placement; introduced to all departments across the company; built a PHP site monitor rota that showed the picture of the person on duty according to a schedule in a MySQL database.
Intern
2001 - 2001
Work experience at age 14; emailed web design agencies in Newcastle and arranged two weeks with Presence; first experience of broadband internet (fast enough to stream movie trailers!); contributed to delivery of multiple client projects; writing HTML/CSS/Javascript.
Education
BSc
2005 - 2007