Pete ChappellPortfolio

Intellum provide learning management solutions to a wide range of clients including Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Snapchat. I worked as a front-end engineer on a wide range of projects including Exceed (Intellum's learning management system), Catcat (a public catalogue of learning material) and Tribe (a social media application with chat facilities).

Pete is a superb talent with the ability to combine both exceptional technical and communication skills. Pete led our front end team to transform our existing code base to a modern and high quality product whilst simultaneously building large roadmap features. He is a pleasure to work with and takes deep care for the quality of his work.

Some of the projects I worked on with Intellum

Learning planner

"My plan" is a feature in Exceed LMS that enables the building out of a personalised learning plan. Required and elected learning material can be scheduled and managed collaboratively by users and their managers.

Content editing

I helped implement a simplified WYSIWYG content editor for building out learning the content. The editor UI is based on the document editing approach popularised by Medium.

Tribe Chat

Tribe Chat is a fully featured and complete chat facility. It works as a standalone product but it can also be integrated into Intellum's learning environment. I led the build of the front-end for the chat application using React and Redux.

Catcat

Catcat is a public catalogue of learning material developed by Intellum. This project included a full redesign and customisation of the LMS as well as the introduction of a new curation system (allowing for the curation of submitted learning content).

General feature development and support

Exceed has a large and continually growing set of features that need to be maintained at a high level of quality, maintainability and accessibility. As such the front-end required continual upgrading, development and support.

Gradual modernisation of the front-end codebase

Exceed is built as a traditional server-side rendered app using Ruby on Rails. I led an initiative to help modernise the front-end codebase. The challenge was to work within the constraints of the existing architecture such that new features could continue to be built without the downtime that would be required for a complete rebuild. To meet this challenge I reduced the use of JQuery and gradually introduced ES6 via Webpack, Custom Elements and Web Components. I set up a testing framework so that all new JavaScript code could be properly tested. I helped document CSS and JavaScript coding guidelines and set up documentation for a component library. The overall intention of these measures was to develop a shared mindset that could help us transition to a more modern architecture using a JavaScript framework like React.

Technology I used

• JavaScript, HTML and CSS/SCSS
• Webpack
• Custom Elements, Web Components and Polymer
• React and Redux
• Mocha and Jest
• Ruby on Rails
• Storybook