🧑‍💻 About Me

Hi, I’m Rob (@manix84) — a Front End Web Developer with 25+ years of experience building things for the web.

• Interests: Movies, Anime, Coffee, JavaScript, CSS, and HTML
• Mindset: Always learning — this industry doesn’t stand still, and neither do I

🧠 What I Like Building

• Clean, privacy-first tools (no ads, no tracking, no unnecessary accounts)
• Lightweight, dependency-conscious front-end systems
• AI tools that are genuinely useful — not just hype
• Developer-first experiences that are easy to integrate and extend

💼 Professional Experience

CleeAI (Current)

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🚀 Key Projects

• AI Builder (private)

  • Developed a system that generates specialised AI models based on user-defined goals.
  • Provides transparent “insights” into how the AI learns, including source tracking.
  • Generates downloadable reports outlining its 7 core specialisation principles.
  • Includes comparison tooling against ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini — showing ~60% improvement in task focus.

• NoraChatbot (decommissioned)

  • Built a plug-and-play AI chatbot that integrates into any website via a simple script tag.
  • Supports multiple concurrent chat sessions per user.
  • Designed for eCommerce platforms (e.g. Shopify) to provide intelligent product recommendations.
  • 📈 Achieved ~30% increase in sales on integrated sites.

• CleeAI Search (decommissioned)

  • Built a research-focused AI search engine.
  • Delivered answers alongside deep source explanations, graphs, and supporting statistics.

• Real Estate AI Chatbot Demo (private)

  • Developed a demo showcasing AI integration into real estate platforms.
  • Pulled and presented live data directly from client websites.

• Other

  • https://cleeai.com

Vorboss (6 months)

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• Customer Service Portal (private)
• Installation Engineer Portal (internal)

Flick / Vault (2 years)

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• Flick (discontinued)
• https://vault.fan

Amazon / Prime Video (9 years)

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• Lovefilm → Amazon Video transition
• https://www.amazon.com/aiv
• https://www.primevideo.com

DVUI (Digital Video UI)

• Internal component library powering Prime Video.
• Built reusable UI components (buttons, inputs, carousels, etc).
• Fully tested, documented, and supported with a developer demo environment.

BBC / iPlayer (3 years, 9 months)

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• https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds

Key Areas

• BBC Radio Player
• iPlayer (TV & Radio)
• Children In Need
• CBBC
• TV Guide

Channel Pages

• BBC One, Two, Three, Four
• CBBC, CBeebies
• BBC Scotland, News, Parliament
• Alba, S4C

Little Fish (1 year)

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• https://littlefish.co.uk/

ZinkyZonk Ltd (4 months)

Free Radical Design (3 years)

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• https://www.frd.co.uk

Key Projects

• Facebook Games
  • Built games embedded directly into Facebook.
  • Worked with FBML (Facebook Markup Language) and FBJS (Facebook JavaScript).