Testimonials
From managers and colleagues at Grandstand and Portwest
I managed Dillon for over a year on the Origins team at GDC Group (Grandstand), where he worked as a full stack developer. He started as a junior but grew into a mid-level developer fast. You could see that growth in everything he worked on.
His code quality was consistently good. He stuck to best practices, kept things maintainable, and was always active in code reviews, both giving feedback and taking it well. He picked things up quickly, including serverless concepts, and made real contributions across our Publish Package, Cloudflare KV integration, and internal logging tools.
He's also got a good instinct for frontend work. He built our new Origins dashboard from scratch, which made a lot of people's jobs easier. He handled solid backend work too, building new API endpoints for our team and others.
Beyond the code, Dillon mentored newer team members and was someone I could count on. During a critical outage when the rest of the team was unreachable, he stepped up on his own and got us through it. He's just as comfortable working solo as he is as part of a team.
I'd recommend Dillon to any team looking for a dependable developer who grows fast.
I worked with Dillon for over a year, in the team responsible for complex and core features at Grandstand. He showed great skill in back-end as well as front-end, and ability to learn and adapt new principles fast.
He demonstrated great quality and agility in completing everyday tasks, and also brought up some great ideas that improved the way our platform worked, and made it even more accessible to users.
Most importantly, he is a great teammate, and a pleasant person to talk to, always ready to help and to share knowledge.
I would emphasize his tech skills in PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML. I'm happy to recommend Dillon to any team looking for a strong developer, a fast learner, and a person who brings up great ideas.
Dillon was a consistent performer and a great asset to the company. He applied himself positively to any task or challenge that presented itself with his willingness to learn, discover, and solve issues on his own to ensure the job got done, and done correctly.
During his time with the company Dillon was an exemplary employee. He had an open and pleasant demeanour and was well liked by colleagues and managers alike. His work ethic was unquestionable, and he performed well in any task asked of him. Dillon was professional in all his communication with peers and senior management.
Dillon has been working alongside me in the Portwest Digital Team for more than 2 years. He is/was always a happy, hardworking member of our team and proved to be an excellent Full Stack Developer, the type of person you can always count on under any circumstance!
I am not hesitant to recommend him for serious Mid or Senior level roles within the tech industry.