React, Cloud, AWS, TypeScript

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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

Tech Lead, Full Stack Engineer

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

Fiinu Limited

As a Senior DevOps and Cloud Engineer at a pioneering fintech start-up bank, I functioned as a self-employed consultant, joining the company during its mobilisation phase to construct the production environment. I successfully created a multi-tier cloud environment leveraging Account Factory and Landing Zones, laying the foundation for the company's unique fintech solutions. I built a robust infrastructure to support the mobile app, utilising AWS, Terraform, and Jenkins to fully automate processes, resulting in improved operational efficiency and scalability.

Senior DevOps and Cloud engineer

DevOps and Cloud Consultant

React / Front-end and Full Stack Development

Java Services

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

Applause

- Developing new product features for the high-volume single page application applying knowledge of Java 11, Node.js and Angular.
- Improved web application performance and UX with migrating 90% of the codebase from Angular.js to Angular 11 and leveraging its optimization potential.
- Reduced web application tech debt by moving deprecated midtier backend calls to dedicated app BFF and upgrading codebase to Typescript.
- Optimized web development lifecycle by migrating two web applications from their own repositories to central web-app monorepo.
- Increased chat application unit test coverage from 21% to 78%.
- Moved platform application queue traffic from AWS SQS to RabbitMQ resulting over 30% cost reduction spent on external queue service.

Full Stack Developer

EY GDS

- Developing new and customization of the existing features for the multi purpose web application using Java and Angular 7. Focused on document automation module.
- Improved developer and end user experience migrating UI from Thymeleaf to Angular.
- Integrating with third-party services and external APIs as a part of implementation of the critical backend component providing authentication feature with SAML2 protocol.
- Participating in peer code reviews for the mission-critical online service maintaining code and design consistency across different team members.

BDSolutions

- Design and implementation of Godly mobile application with strict cooperation with the UX and graphics department.
- Setup the processes of releasing and distributing the application to the Google Play store.

Mobile Developer

X-Trade Brokers

- Initiative and implementation of an application for managing client content and application translations, which resulted in the possibility of changing application translations at any time and synchronization between environments.
- Modernized key web application for customers by updating web technologies from jQuery / Velocity to Angular.js resulting in increase in user retention.
- Introduced two-way communication using Websockets to a critical web application, which allowed the client to be informed about the status of his operations in real time.
- Increasing the productivity of Java programmers by introducing the JRebel tool to reload the code without restarting the application.
- Design and implementation of new cross-system functionalities in cooperation with other project teams.
- Performing the role of the technical leader of the team during the last months of work.
- Monitoring, troubleshooting, debugging and bug fixing of the applications.
- Integration with several online payment providers, providing customers with additional channels for card payments or using banking systems, which translated into an increase in the amount of deposits in transaction accounts and the company’s profit.
- Integrating with internal services and APIs (i.e. CRM or trading system) as a part of
implementation of the mission-critical backend application for processing client account related operations resulting in shortening the time of creating an account by over 90%.
- Developing and maintaining internal libraries and API clients.
- Introduced a system of calculating commissions on deposits made, which allowed to reduce the cost of servicing payment systems.
- Performance tuning of the business-critical application database for asynchronous
processing using Hibernate improving query execution time by 30-60% and overall system response time.
- Design, implementation and deployment of a central client database, which allowed to reduce data duplication among the internal systems.
- Creating internal tools for monitoring the activity of logged in users with the use of JMX.
- Experimenting with front-end frameworks for business-critical accounting application that helped to boost project development efficiency.
- Using tools for static code analysis and elimination of blocker, critical, and major issues from critical business application.
- Mentoring and couching newly hired team members and juniors resulting in over 50% of onboarding time decrease.

Software Developer

Xentivo

- Preparation of the MVP application for submitting electronic applications for funding under the European Entrepreneurship Development Program.
- Developing new and customization of the existing features for the document management application based on open source NuxeoDM and commercial Documentum platforms.
- Coordinated with engineering and product teams in the identification of customer requirements for the document management application.
- Conducting training on the use of the application for end users.
- Preparation and implementation of a demo application for potential clients.

Java Programmer

Fullstack developer

London Borough of Lambeth

•	Worked with Assistant Director of Digital Services to define and deliver IOT and data product portfolio advancing Council's smart city initiatives and climate action plan commitments.
•	Led requirements gathering across seven Council Directorates, ensuring alignment with the data, digital, and technology (DDaT) strategies to create cohesive, user-focused roadmap for 20 IOT, AI, and data products.
•	Documented user requirements and prioritising based on business strategy and goals, establishing OKRs aligned to organisation's KPIs and business needs, putting in place plans to track progress through data to ensure improvement in service delivery.
•	Improved internal agile process for digital products portfolio management, use-case feasibility planning, product lifecycle planning, and identifying change management requirements.
•	Delivered technical direction, including specifications and infrastructure budget planning for digital product funding application for £4 million project.

IOT and Data Product Manager

Internet of Production Alliance

The Internet of Production Alliance brings together people from around the world to build open infrastructures enabling anyone, everywhere to participate in the production of goods.
•	Lead the development and implementation of the technical strategy including managing the technology roadmap for the Alliance.
•	Manage the technical team and partner contractors in developing, and maintaining the tools and infrastructure to support the use of the Alliance’s standards.
•	Define, manage, and contribute to the development of software projects including online manufacturing facilities maps, custom search engine, and decentralized storage using Solid Pods.
•	Lead the Alliance’s work in defining and testing metadata standards and ontologies for a 
•	Evaluate and provide insight into the direction of the Alliance’s projects, including recommendations to the working groups and guidance and assessment of consultants.
•	Contribute to project design and development, writing technical elements of funding bids, help define fundraising priorities with the fundraising task force and support project reporting processes.
•	Engage with other expert communities and support scoping and consultation activities.
•	Represent the Alliance in expert level events and conferences.

Immersionn Ltd

A start-up building a platform for 3-D immersive experiences (immersionn.com)
•	Led the delivery of multiple software projects to key clients working with the Product Director to implement agile processes along with a streamlined devops.
•	Delivered continuous improvement enhancements by setting up process and templates for projects specs, testing and acceptance criteria, for each feature and release, aligning deliverables and ensuring coherence across technology, customer service, and content development teams.
•	Defined the technical strategy and technology roadmap for the platform and products.
•	Identified, evaluated, and recommended new technology solutions, integrations, partnerships and infrastructure.

Immersionn

Arab Image Foundation

•	Devised the Arab Image Foundation’s (AIF) short- and long-term technical strategy to optimise digital systems, including asset management systems and websites, linked to the various archival collections.
•	Ensured the compatibility between AIF’s database system and online platforms, including documentation of development processes and procedures, and adoption of relevant metadata standards.
•	Developed a custom archival management and display system for photographic album collections.

Big Think Inc.

•	Managed the development and technical operations of a web-based enterprise eLearning system used by a number of Fortune-500 companies, as well as a 2 million visits per month website
•	Leading a team of developers to deliver product features, including the interview and on-boarding processes for new development team members
•	Identifying, assessing and recommending new technology solutions.

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