Benjamin Dordoigne

Developed a production-ready AI package that automates the extraction of structured financial data from documents, reducing manual data entry time by 80%+ for financial advisors.

• Built a reusable TypeScript package using AWS Bedrock (Claude 3.7 Sonnet) and AWS Textract to process PDFs, Word documents, and images, extracting complex financial information including pension details, employment history, assets, and liabilities.
• Designed a multi-step AI extraction pipeline that processes documents in parallel chains, ensuring high accuracy and comprehensive data capture for financial advisory workflows.
• Integrated the package into a Next.js application, providing seamless document upload and real-time AI processing with user-friendly progress tracking.
• Implemented robust error handling, data validation, and preprocessing utilities to ensure data quality and handle edge cases in AI-generated outputs.
• Architected a schema-driven system with Zod validation, enabling type-safe data extraction and preprocessing to handle AI output inconsistencies.

Solved complex challenges in real-time financial data processing by building intuitive, high-performance interfaces that translated intricate transaction workflows into a seamless user experience.

• Architected a new risk management platform for a tier-1 investment bank that improved data processing efficiency by 40% and supported scaling to over 1,000 daily users.
• Reduced manual deployment time by 90% and accelerated feature delivery by 3x by designing and implementing a comprehensive CI/CD pipeline with Jenkins.
• Decreased user error rates by 30% by leading the UI/UX development for a complex risk assessment interface, resulting in a more intuitive workflow.
• Engineered a real-time SWIFT message processing system for a leading global financial institution, successfully handling over 50,000 MT/MX messages daily with 99.9% accuracy.
• Streamlined critical approval workflows for senior managers and directors by building an integrated React Native app that provided actionable alerts and high-level summaries from the risk and SWIFT platforms.

Brought in for a high-impact contract to develop and launch performant web applications for the corporate brand and its high-profile clients.

• Boosted the corporate website's Lighthouse performance score by 45 points by architecting and rebuilding the site from the ground up using Next.js and a headless CMS (StrapiCMS).
• Developed high-traffic campaign microsites for global brands including Fifa and Nando's, successfully handling peak traffic of over 50,000 users per hour.
• Delivered a seamless user experience for a Coca-Cola marketing campaign by engineering a highly performant, mobile-first application, leading to a 30% increase in active participation.
• Ensured a 99% bug-free launch for the corporate website by establishing a new testing framework with Enzyme that achieved 85% code coverage.
• Led the end-to-end development of an internal time tracking app using React Native, from initial concept to deployment on over 200 company-managed iOS and Android devices.

Led the complete technical overhaul of the company's digital platform, modernising the architecture to significantly boost performance and readership.

• Achieved a 90+ Lighthouse score and cut page load times by 77% by architecting a headless React/WordPress front-end and implementing advanced asset optimisation.
• Grew monthly readership by 25% by designing and building a new, user-centric WordPress theme with custom Gutenberg blocks that enhanced content discovery and readability.
• Owned the entire front-end stack and development workflow, introducing modern tooling like GulpJS and establishing new code standards for the team.

Successfully designed, developed, and maintained a portfolio of over 300 websites and applications for a diverse range of clients, from small businesses to tech startups. Specialised in creating custom, high-performance web solutions that drove business growth and user engagement.

• Managed the full project lifecycle for over 300 clients, from initial consultation and requirements gathering to development, deployment, and ongoing maintenance, achieving a 95% client retention rate
• Consistently delivered high-performance websites by focusing on modern front-end optimisation, code minification, and server-side enhancements.
• Translated complex client business requirements into tangible results by building bespoke web applications, from custom e-commerce stores to secure subscription management systems.