Andreas H.

Involved with helping the Financial Times support, manage, maintain and improve their existing systems and infrastructure for their in-house email platform responsible for the editorial, marketing, automated and service-level (user account-related), business critical emails sent to subscribers and B2B/B2C customers, with a rolling weekly average of 10+ million unique sends.

- Architected core API development

- Leading decommissioning of existing architecture

- Architecting development of new infrastructure and new systems for ETL workflows between a new CDP vendor and the FTs data warehouse

- Lead developer for a tool that allows FT staff to use complex dynamic content in emails, including designing the data model allowing users to create “bundles” of multiple content feeds into a single entity, with a full audit trail of changes, using Neo4J

- Developed tooling to manage our CDN and network infrastructure in code using Terraform, VCL and CircleCI to allow continuous delivery, introduced a strict review process as well as testing capabilities of our network traffic layer

- Revamped and improved system logging and alerting capacity across all our infrastructure, using Splunk and Slack integrations

- Developed a database migration script to aid in a time and business critical database migration for all of our MongoDB databases

- Introduced a more rigorous development routine and higher code standards by utilising shared tooling such as a team wide ESLint configuration

Worked on building the front end for the educational side of the Google for Small Business. The platform had an educational platform where business owners would be taken through different courses relating to how they can use online tools to improve their business without necessarily being an online based business.

Key member of the London studio team. My role includes both direct hands-on development and technical leadership, technical scoping, planning and mentoring other team members, and when necessary trained non-technical team members on technical tasks and projects.

Responsible for technical architecture planning and scoping as well as management of projects. Did full stack web development, line managed and mentored the junior developers on the team, and worked in collaboration across the other studio disciplines as well as with external collaborators.