Full-stack engineering

KrakenFlex (Octopus Energy)

Backend / platform engineering; system design; cloud infrastructure; serverless & microservices architecture.

KrakenFlex

X2X Media

I provided software engineering services on a contract basis for X2X Media for 12 months.

Bulb Energy

I provided service engineering services on a contract basis for Bulb Energy for 12 months.

Freetrade

Promoted to Principal Software Engineer at Freetrade in recognition of technical leadership, high-level technological decision-making and architectural system design. Built a customised testing framework to emulate key GCP functionality for high-speed effective testing to run CI flows more quickly and accurately.

Principal Software Engineer

Software Engineering

Verdn

First engineer to join Verdn, which provides businesses with an API to plant trees, recover ocean-bound plastic and restore coral reef.

* Revamped pricing system that processes 1,000s of transactions a day
* Introduced data warehousing and infrastructure for Shopify app, which produced statistically significant positive conversion ROI
* Added coral reef restoration to product, with immediate uptake by customers
* Helped add Zapier integration, connecting Verdn with 1,000s of other apps

Founding Engineer

Various clients - Tugboat Coding Limited

Various clients. Projects included:
* Developing for a national newspaper’s website (News UK), serving millions of visitors
* Building scientific study portal (MVP) for a BioTech startup in 10 days
* Leading the redesign of an InsureTech startup’s web app

Contractor

Digitbrew (formerly Data Hygge)

Founded at Entrepreneur First, Digitbrew measured user experience (UX) in apps. We identified user frustration signals, including rage clicks, to capture in-the-moment feedback from users.

My role ranged from customer discovery to product development. Products built from scratch:
* Analytics tracker installed on websites serving 1M+ visitors
* Analytics back-end distilling insights from 1B+ of data points
* Chrome extension annotating websites with UX insights and high ROI opportunities

CTO and Co-founder

Various clients. Projects included B2B enterprise recruitment software managing 1,000s of candidates.

Hellocar

As Technical Lead at Hellocar — an online car-buying platform founded at Founders Factory — I was involved from the very early stages of the startup. I helped build the product from the ground up and led the technical effort to successfully launch it. Product development was my primary focus, but I also developed tech to support other business functions, including marketing, operations and sales.

Tech Lead

Conversocial

With Conversocial, enterprise customer service agents managed business social media accounts. I developed web and mobile apps for the CROWDS peer-to-peer social customer service product. I helped build the CROWDS mobile app from scratch, including the architecture, test suite and build system. I led the product from its inception to its release six months later in the Google Play Store.

Software Engineer

Nimble Storage

Full-stack server-side REST API implementation and client-side web UI development for the InfoSight cloud-based data storage analytics, monitoring and management platform.

Projects included:

* Self-service customer-facing tools to automate technical support workflows
* UI overhaul of customer-facing platform
* Internal REST API to interface with Salesforce's API
* Licensing system to register and activate proprietary software

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