Jamie Dean
Experience
MonumentAI — AI Engineer — Aug 2026
NovaraPro — Creator, sole developer
Multi-tenant, pay-as-you-go platform for wholesale bakery management, live at novarapro.co.uk. My own product and IP, from the first schema to the cluster it runs on.
- Focus: Scalable architecture, automated testing, deployment pipelines, local LLM integration.
- Technologies: Next.js, PostgreSQL, Prisma, Kubernetes (kind), Podman, CI/CD.
- Testing: Unit, smoke, system and integration suites, review-gated.
Aspirations — my developer name on Google Play
Not a registered company yet — the name my apps ship under. First app: PonyPlanner, a Flutter equestrian-management app that has cleared every technical gate for the Play Store.
Westcountry Bakery — Bakery Operative and in-house developer — 2021 to present
Wholefood production: proovers, ovens, packing and organising orders for customers' shops. Alongside the day job I built the bakery's software: a C# manager that turns customer orders into readable production data, Firebase in the middle, and an Android tablet app so operatives could drop the paper.
Secure Innovation — Software Engineering Placement — 14 months, 2024 to 2025
Their first software engineer placement student, in the Research & Design department. Secure software development in practice; Delphi RSA-4096 via OpenSSL, a custom OTP generator and checker. Completed with a certificate of industrial experience.
Resegva — Year 2 client project, University of Plymouth
A real client, a team of student software engineers, an agile process. We built custom geofencing and GPS tracking for boats, ran practical experiments on the lakes, and presented the result at the department expo. Watch the presentation.
PlymHack 2026 — 2nd place
A 24-hour international hackathon on UN SDG11. Team of three; we built Safe Way, safe-route navigation from six months of public crime data. See Safe Way in the projects.
Plymouth Employment System Board — Web Developer / Designer — 2018
A small team working with Plymouth City Council to design and build a web platform.
West Country Rider Training — IT Technician — 2018 to 2019
Brought outdated hardware and software up to date and introduced databases for client data protection.
Limited Hosting — Cloud Infrastructure
OpenStack, Kubernetes, Cloudflare static sites: container orchestration and cloud networking in practice.
University of Plymouth — BSc (Hons) Computer Science (Software Engineering), First Class Honours (2026)
Advanced software development, testing methodologies and project management. IronLog began here as a final-year project.
Before software
Carpenter's assistant for three years, a season in a beach café, and a summer as an assistant mechanic in an MOT garage. That is where the bikes come from.
Localised hackathon — Freedom Cloud Messaging
Organised and ran a hackathon session to replicate the "hackathon lifestyle". Outcome: Freedom Cloud Messaging, a replacement for Google push services in a self-hosted environment.
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