CASE STUDY: COMMERCIAL ENGINEERING
Engineering at holidayextras.com
A comprehensive overview of my architectural contributions and engineering accomplishments across four years at Holiday Extras. From automating legacy monolith migrations to pioneering business-wide AI tool adoption and driving massive conversion wins.
Core Technology Stack
Senior Software Engineer
Pioneered Claude Code Adoption
Led the business-wide adoption of Claude Code, establishing tooling standards and workflow patterns that significantly accelerated feature delivery across engineering teams.
Legacy Monolith Migration
Developed AI-first workflows and custom rendering pipelines (including a markdown-to-react compiler) to systematically migrate legacy frontend codebases to Remix and React Router.
AI Tools & Infrastructure
Built the frontend interfaces for user-facing AI tools/chat systems and designed an internal AI skills marketplace to empower engineers with custom AI agents.
AI Innovation Platform
Contributed to internal platform initiatives designed to lower the barrier to entry, enabling non-technical staff to deploy AI solutions.
Software Engineer II
Trips Optimization & Monetization
Drove key optimizations on the Trips platform, helping increase items booked per trip and boosting trip search completion rates by 30%.
Session-to-Search Conversion Win
Redesigned and optimized trip-creation forms, driving a 50% increase in session-to-search conversion rates.
GraphQL & Mentorship
Pair programmed and mentored junior/mid engineers while designing and implementing key products in the Trips GraphQL API.
Apprentice Software Engineer
Apprenticeship Distinction
Achieved a Distinction in the software engineering apprenticeship, mastering ruby, javascript, and modern web application patterns.
Makers Academy Training
Completed intensive, full-time engineering training via Makers Academy, establishing strong TDD and architectural principles.
Live Platform Link
Visit the live holidayextras.com booking portal to view the search flows and booking engines optimized.
