Kainos for DWP

Big Data Test Lead, leading five QAs across three AGILE streams of work on an AWS cloud native project. ETL testing, AWS Sagemaker, security testing, performance testing, API testing, integration testing and MLOps.

Uplifted Analytics Service

Dukebridge for Royal Mail Group

Management and oversight of implementation of test automation across product teams. Cloud native test automation framework written in Python Pytest and Pytest-BDD for testing GCP data pipelines 

Future Data Platform

Babylon Health

Lead Big Data Engineer in Test. Design and implementation of testing strategy. Agile transformation of data teams with the Babylon Health data tribe.  Data QA Consultant of Quality Assurance team. Responsibility for driving whole testing function on a day to day basis, including managing one other tester and daily pairing with developers. Management of stakeholder relationships s part of AGILE SDLC. Cloud-native test framework architect of python-based test frame-works using pytest, pytest-bdd and apache airflow to interrogate data quality on Hive/Hbase data warehouse and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Big Query ETL processes. Architectural design and Implementation of CI/CD processes, build reporting and alerting (Jenkins and CircleCI).


Data Migration

101 Ways for DAZN

Big Data QA Consultant using SQL, lettuce, pytest, unittest frame-works. Responsibility for daily oversight of sprint testing including daily pair programming with developers. Data quality ingestion (circa 20Gb/day) from Amazon S3 via Python. Luigi ETL process to Amazon Redshift, EC2, S3. CI/CD integration us-ing drone.io and lettuce. 


DAZN ETL

Selfridges

Functional and security testing of greenfield Selfridges Enterprise Data Platform. 

Enterprise Data Platform

Big Data Test Lead

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

Expert, freelance Big Data engineers