Next Stack

I am the founder and work as a Software Developer at Next Stack LTD. I’m working on my personal projects now.

Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Node.js, GraphQL, REST, Java Spring Boot, AWS, TDD

Senior Software Engineer Consulting

Ably

Ably provides a real-time experience infrastructure that just works at any scale.

● Working as a Full Stack Software Engineer, supporting the marketing team with Contentful.
● Developed and maintained web applications and internal tools using JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Gatsby, and Contentful. ● Implemented frontend architectures, including component libraries, SPAs, and server-side rendered applications.
● Developed GraphQL services to integrate third-party service provider
● Unit tests using Jest and React Testing Library.

Technologies: React, Node.js, AWS, GraphQL, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Jest, GitHub, Tailwind CSS

Senior Full Stack Developer - Contract

Digital Detox

Contract Software Developer

* Sonova Group
Developing the Hearing Care App for Sonova.

* BMI Group
Rebuilt a new platform for Standard Industries subsidiary BMI Group.

Fullstack Developer

Financial House

Developed an Instant Bank Payment application.

Contract Software Developer

Full Stack Software Developer 

HMRC-CIP/Equal Experts

Working on secure/compliant real-time data ingestion and warehousing for a petabyte scale analytics platform. Based on AWS using s3/hudi, Scala/Spark, Apache Kafka, Scala/Python/Jupyter Notebooks, and for infrastructure Terraform, Packer, Docker (Linux and bash).

Data Pipelines Engineer

Elsewhen/Finecast

Building an AI assisted TV advertising distributions system. Working as part of a small ML team of Data Scientists prototyping then productionising a model (Tensor Flow) that can optimally match slots during ad-breaks with advertisments based on a number of factors. Hosted in GCP (Cloud Run, Cloud Tasks, Vertex AI, Big Query), data pipelines using a custom Python app (housed in Docker containers linked via Cloud Tasks) and the infrastructure auchestrated via Terraform.

MLOps Engineer

Allplants

Assisting the team to improve a skeleton implementation and grow a data engineering team.

Allplants Data Warehouse

John Lewis

Part of a team developing an in-house recommendations service, to replace 3rd parties. Provided infrastructure and CI/CD tools to improve observability, automation, and more efficient data pipelines. Working closely with Data Science and Software Engineering teams to train, assess, deploy and monitor ML models for the John Lewis website.

John Lewis Reccomendations

Awaze

design and build for a new data-warehouse, consolidating and harmonising data from across many subsidiary businesses across europe. Coaching internal team on data-engineering practices and DataOps. Using Python (DBT, Jinja), Terraform, Snowflake, Matillion, Airflow, Liquibase, SQL, AWS (CloudWatch, EC2, EBS, Lambda, SQS, IAM, Networking etc…), SodaSQL.

Awaze Data Warehouse

data engineering, ML Ops, DevOps, software engineering

Natwest / RBS

Worked in the mPlatform Development team responsible for building and running the middle tier services that provide functionality and connectivity into the core banking systems within the RBS Group. 
Built Java micro-services utilising the Vertx Framework and deployed across AWS Infrastructure using Terraform. Developed the back-end services for the Personal and Business Banking mobile applications across the RBS retail brands representing daily volumes of between 5-7 million logins per day and peak loads of 12-15k logins per minute. 


Java Developer

Elwood Technologies

Elwood Technologies is a fast-growing, London-based fintech, building digital assets trading infrastructure for institutional investors. Its seamless end-to-end platform connects to global crypto exchanges, custodians, and liquidity providers, via a single Application Programming Interface (API). 
Built market connectors for various exchange (Coinbase, Okex and Tagomi) and internal monitoring (audit and risk management). Elwood platform is mainly in GoLang with Python and SQL. 
-	Primarily responsible for trade support in crypto products covering Spot, Futures, Perpetual Swaps, Options and Loans.
-	Configuration of Client funds and books and account set-up, including compliance rules.
-	Maintain the reference data around new exchange product setup and commission schedules.
-	Building risk reports for clients and internal use.
-	Assist in gathering and/or reviewing client's process requirements and assisting on architect design decisions with the rest of the team.
-	Operating and analysing continuous monitoring tools in performing ongoing monitoring tools of Elwood infrastructure.


Backend Engineer

Haruko

Haruko is an easy-to-use platform that gives institutional investors the levels of insights, control, and compliance they demand when trading digital assets. 
Primarily responsible for building API & real-time frameworks for coalescing connectivity across exchanges. 
-	Responsible for building the internal development framework on which the system was built.
-	Built WebSocket integrations and live price sourcing on both DeFi & CeFi.
-	Reverse engineering defi & crypto protocols and building institutional views on the most popular DeFi protocols (Aave, Curve, Uniwap, Solana & Serum etc).  


Senior Java Developer

The BBC Accounts team are responsible for the day-to-day management of online users including the most common workflows (sign in/ password recovery and access across devices). These services are responsible for millions of requests per day.

My function was to rebuild the backend around user password management as well as move to a new in house user token management system. These were mostly typescript / java micro services hosted in AWS.

Lead cross-functional teams across front-end, backend and QA/Security teams as well as extensive input into overall system architecture. 

Java & Go Development, Backend Engineer

Journey Hospitality

Development of a new v2 of their internal API systems written in Symfony5 as well as worked on a number of legacy Laravel projects

Symfony Consultant

Circa 5000 (formally Tickr)

Worked on the API systems that power their mobile app, focusing on Carbon Offset and Carbon footprint calculators

Laravel Developer

New Scientist

Provided a new set of CI/CD tools (gitlab and jenkins) and APM (NewRelic) to aid in the on-going improvements to their release pipelines and websites after the split from parent company Reed

DevOps Consultant

Squawka

Built a statistics API platform translate and process football player information about matches, players and teams

ElasticSearch Consultant

Symfony, Laravel, AWS DevOps, PHP8, ELK, CI/CD, TDD, BDD, SOLID

Lyte/Festicket/EventGenius

Tech Lead across the .net platform used for access control as well as active contributor on both the .net and PHP platforms. Handled high traffic events such as Parklife.

Tech Lead

Website/Software Development

All clients

Please have a look at project part in my linkedin profile.


All projects

AWS, nodejs,  .net, mssql

mTag

Head of Engineering

Canvvs

Working with a fast growing engineering team to build the minimum viable product of an industry shaking service following a successful £1m seed raise.

Canvvs Platform

NearbyMe

Leading a small, but incredibly talented team of engineers. We built and delivered a React Native application and associated services required to demonstrate the end to end key value proposition of a local startup in preparation to secure seed funding.

NearbyMe Mobile Application

Digitronix

Full Stack Engineer

Graduate Advantage

Working with a major UK University to deliver an end to end graduate recruitment and career development platform to supercharge student career progression taking them from the lecture hall to the workplace with an automated service aiming to land students roles that match their area of study.

Graduate Advantage Platform

Tower Gaming

Working with an indie game development studio together we built a next generation mobile game engine for powering the studios upcoming releases.

Campfire

As Head of Engineering, I was responsible for architecting and implementing everything from the core React Native product, multiple React websites, a React driven Electron application and the infrastructure services that powered it all.

Implementing and managing aggressive growth strategies with intelligent data and event infrastructure.

Full-stack development

Virtual Pricing Director

- Spearheaded taking the software live with three leading UK legal firms after joining when the product was far from ready, resulting in large revenues for the company and confidence in the product and development team.

- Rearchitected the integration process between legal firms' database views and our platform by introducing a new, generic "VPD Schema." This change resulted in savings of tens of thousands of pounds in development costs compared to the previous bespoke integration method.

- Implemented Agile development methodologies and code reviews. As a result, our team was able to deliver new features and enhancements to the platform much faster than before, and to a high standard, leading to customer confidence and a reduction in tech debt.

- Overhauled the hiring process (with rigorous screening) and onboarding process, which attracted top talent and enabled us to build a high-performing team at speed.

- Regularly liaised with IT departments of legal firms, helping to facilitate their integration with VPD and/or unblock them. This change helped to strengthen our relationships with our customers and enabled us to deliver better service and support.

Backlinko

- Led the entire technology function at the company from its outset, including architecture, hiring, performance optimisation, tier 3 support, and development.

- Built scalable, high-availability architecture for SEO training courses from scratch which resulted in an average yearly turnover of $1,500,000.

- Created custom deliverable for blog allowing for easy content management and fast page load times (Next.js front-end with SSG; headless WP CMS on back-end).

- Developed and co-product managed SaaS product, YoRocket, bringing in over $150,000 in its first six months.

- Developed bespoke, in-house tools to drive efficiency at Backlinko (mostly using React, Apollo Client and Styled Components).

- Spearheaded strategic expansion efforts through acquisition of promising third party products (Exploding Topics, among others).

Expert, freelance Amazon AWS engineers