Data science, machine learning, automation, python, aws

Full-Stack .NET developer

VIM-Adventures

A successful online game I created, used by a multitude of high profile companies, various universities, and thousands of customers around the world to teach and learn the vim text editor. I took the product through all phases - design, build, deploy and reiterate while quickly responding to customer requests. Successfully automated payment handling, email notifications and database backups.

Creator

Wrapped Castle Limited

An online game where you learn SQL by
retrieving data to solve crimes.

IWSR

Implementing features for a data collection web
app across the stack: DB, API, front-end and the
components library while working with AG Grid.
I set up infrastructure for and wrote E2E tests
using Playwright.

Internal AG Grid based tool

Festicket

Fixing tech debt: removed ImmutableJS, typed
redux store and components with Typescript,
upgraded the build pipeline and moved Enzyme
tests to React Testing Library.

Fix Technical Debt

Financial Times

Adjusting and enhancing internal tools to be
used by editors in Tokyo. Implementing API to
retrieve data from Elasticsearch. Working with
stakeholders to add new features and fix bugs.

Lantern - Internal Analytics Tool

British Pearl

Extending an existing React & Redux SPA. Upgrading to Webpack 4, rebuilding and enhancing pages according to new designs.

Landing Pages

Just Retirement

Rebuilt and expanded React SPA accessible via OIDC and implemented the front-end parts within Identity Server 4.

Account Balance page

Wonderbill

Maintained and supported automated scraping services based on a chrome extension.

Chrome Extention

Accenture

Successfully moved an Angular & Typescript based mobile app from JIT to AOT cutting load time by 75%. Refactored backend node service to work with a different document storage using TDD. Improved build quality by writing a webpack loader detecting untranslated i18n strings.

After extending, led a team of developers to launch a customer facing website. Mentored, code reviewed all commits while also implementing features myself across the stack under a tight schedule. Managed builds, deployments and 3rd party configurations.

Webapps

Unruly

Worked on front-end ad spaces using ES6. Applying TDD and pair programming on all production code in an agile story driven environment.

Senior Software Developer

TalkTalk TV

Led a team of Javascript engineers working on a front-end Angular 1.5 app in ES6.

Software Engineering Manager

Cotendo

Developed a flexible infrastructure in Java for selective CDN configuration deployment.


Senior Java Software Engineer

CheckPoint

Led a team of 4 C++ developers through several releases, meeting tight schedules. Built a strong team through personal mentoring and managed stakeholders’expectations. Before that, the focal point for logging infrastructure extending critical high throughput infrastructure.

Team Lead & Senior C++ Engineer

SAP Labs

Developed the MRP algorithm used in SAP Business One months ahead of schedule.

C++ Software Engineer

Full Stack web development - React, Javascript/Typescript, Node, Express, Next.js

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

Email Platform

rehab agency/rehab studio

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.

Google for Small Business

Code & Theory London

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.

Lead Developer

Bureau for Visual Affairs

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.

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