Gwynfor Hockridge

Business Analyst · Management Information Systems

Professional summary

Software engineer completing a Master of Management Information Systems at Edith Cowan University. Recent work includes a national sports LMS (courses, certifications, analytics, £50k+ first-month revenue) and stakeholder-led change at Kent Business School (500+ pages to under 50, agreements, training). Comfortable moving between requirements, information systems, and delivery teams. Technical background in Vue/Nuxt, AWS, and SSO across 10+ applications. Based in Perth, Western Australia.

Selected career highlights

  • Translated organisational needs into a national LMS covering courses, certifications, analytics, and offline access; £50k+ in the first month.
  • Led stakeholder redesign of a business-school site from 500+ pages to under 50, including scoping, agreements, and training.
  • Unified identity and engagement data across 10+ applications so the organisation could see usage across products, not only inside each app.
  • Put AI into the delivery workflow (Copilot, then Cursor, review/triage, Datadog MCP) so issues in logs could be tied back to tickets.

Key skills

  • Analysis & delivery

    stakeholder engagement · requirements · scoping · training · Agile delivery · team leadership

  • Information systems

    LMS · SSO · analytics · federated search · certifications · offline access

  • AI in the workflow

    GitHub Copilot · Cursor · AI code review · ticket triage · MCP / Datadog

  • Stack

    Vue 3 · Nuxt · TypeScript · GraphQL · AWS

Experience

  • høppstudio Senior Developer

    2024 – May 2026

    • Delivered an LMS for a national sports organisation: structured courses, assessments, certifications, analytics, and offline mobile access; £50k+ revenue in the first month.
    • Led adoption of AI in the delivery workflow (Copilot, then Cursor): review and triage pipelines, and Datadog MCP so issues in logs could be tied back to tickets.
    • Implemented SSO and unified user profiling across 10+ applications, improving engagement tracking and cross-app insights.
    • Designed federated search aggregating content types from multiple apps.
    • Mentored a team of 5 through stack modernisation; established review, release, and deployment practice.

  • 1minus1 Senior Developer

    2020 – 2023

    • Delivered high-traffic sites for major game studios (including the Forza franchise hub), treating accessibility and content structure as core constraints.
    • Introduced GitHub Copilot into the team's development workflow.
    • Migrated large-scale properties (40k+ posts) from legacy CMS platforms with minimal downtime.
    • Led CI/CD adoption across AWS, DigitalOcean, Cloudflare, and Git-based workflows.
    • Helped scale the studio from 2 to 6+ developers and 5 to 20+ staff; established code standards and review practices.

  • Protech Commercial Kitchens Web & Digital Marketing

    Feb – May 2020 · Sydney, Australia

    • Short-term contract delivering custom JavaScript/PHP contact forms and Google Tag Manager event tracking for conversion measurement.

  • Inky the Squid Independent Developer

    2016 – present

    • Delivered custom WordPress and Vue sites for clients in the UK, New Zealand, and Australia, translating Figma designs into production themes and interactive pages.
    • Contracted to digital agencies on theme builds, performance, and design-to-code delivery.

  • University of Kent & Kent Business School Web Developer / Consultant

    2014 – 2018 · Canterbury, UK

    • Coordinated central web teams and stakeholders on the Kent Business School website redesign, cutting the site from 500+ pages to under 50.
    • Scoped projects, wrote client agreements, and delivered training and documentation for central teams.
    • Managed a team of 5 staff delivering platform updates and essential services university-wide.
    • Rolled out a research promotion platform and central news publishing network across multiple sites.

Education

  • Master of Management Information Systems (in progress)

    2026 – present

    Edith Cowan University · Perth, Western Australia

  • Higher Diploma in Economics

    2014 – 2015

    University of Kent · Canterbury, UK

Selected projects

References available on request.