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Building at the FA · hacking on trove.ink

Paul Dolden

Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer at The Football Association, building applications that help the England teams succeed. In my spare time I’m building trove.ink, a local-first writing app for novelists.

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~/paul — zsh
$ whoami
paul — senior software engineer
$ cat stack.txt
TypeScript · Svelte · Go · Rust · TailwindCSS
$ cat now.txt
FA · England teams + trove.ink
$ _
// About

Hi, I'm Paul Dolden — a developer based in the South East of England, currently a Senior Software Engineer at The Football Association, building applications that help the England teams succeed. I like writing code and experimenting with new tools, technologies, and paradigms — lately Svelte, TypeScript, Go and Tailwind, and exploring Rust, WebAssembly, and local-first software. Outside work I'm building trove.ink, a local-first writing app for novelists — and writing the fiction it's built for.

Currently
Senior Software Engineer @ The Football Association
Building
trove.ink — a local-first writing app
Based in
South East England
Also
Writing fiction at /words
// Experience

Where I've worked

Senior Full-Stack Developer @ The Football Association

Aug 2023 – Present
Wembley Stadium, London

Building software that helps England teams win. My focus is on driving engineering excellence — championing modern tools, technologies, and practices to tackle our unique challenges in the most effective ways.

    ReactNode.jsTypeScriptTerraformGCP

    Full-Stack Developer @ Comic Relief

    May 2022 – Aug 2023
    London

    Maintained and enhanced a React front-end and Node.js back-end, managing infrastructure with AWS CloudFormation and the Serverless framework. Testing with Cypress, Jest, and Mocha kept things robust through peak campaigns like Red Nose Day, and I helped drive the migration from JavaScript to TypeScript.

      ReactNode.jsTypeScriptAWSServerless

      Lead Mobile Developer @ 2D Media

      Mar 2021 – May 2022
      Witham

      Led the move into mobile with React Native — custom apps including a social network for the health & social care sector, plus native ports of internal CRM, project-management, and e-commerce tools. Handled Play Store / App Store distribution end to end.

        React NativeNode.jsTypeScript

        Web Developer @ 2D Media

        Jan 2021 – Mar 2021
        Witham

        Built and maintained e-commerce sites on an internal CMS/platform, setting them up and optimising for performance and user experience to meet specific business needs.

          ReactNode.jsTypeScriptTailwind CSSPHP
          // Selected work

          Things I've built

          trove.ink

          Pre-launch

          A local-first writing app for novelists and worldbuilders — manuscripts live as plain Markdown in a folder you own. My main side project; currently pre-launch.

          TypeScriptSvelteTauriRust
          Source Visit
          // Toolbox

          What I work with

          Languages
          TypeScriptJavaScriptGoRustPHP
          Frontend
          ReactSvelteReact NativeTailwind CSSWebAssembly
          Backend & Cloud
          Node.jsServerlessDockerTerraformAWSGCP
          Practice
          DevOpsTestingLocal-firstSystem designMentoring
          // Contact

          Building something that needs a careful pair of hands?

          I'm always happy to talk about interesting work. The fastest way to reach me is email, or find me on LinkedIn.

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