Popsa

Reduced operating costs by ~30%.
Increase product confidence with new processes and automation.
Implement continuous delivery.
Improve service performance and stability. 
Enhance monitoring and implement new logging infrastructure.
Onboard and train new team members.
Automate infrastructure using Terraform.
Report directly to stakeholders.
Guide business decisions around development and process.
Train and manage new joiners.

Software Consultant

Vidsy

Develop new microservices.
Migrate REST API to GraphQL and gRPC.
Improve performance and stability
Automate infrastructure using Terraform.
Operate with company leadership to advise and report.

Jack Morton Worldwide

Design CMS for interactive installation.
Build React components for design system.
Automated testing, packaging and deployment.
Bundle React applications into electron desktop apps.

Application Developer

IPG DXTRA

Built React website.
Automated static deployments triggered by headless CMS.
Implemented interactive video elements.

Landing page for new global brand

REMX

Designed and built highly available golang microservice architecture.
Develop custom audio engine in c++ and Swift.
Built design system for web and mobile.
Built React Native mobile applications.
Automate deployment to kubernetes.
Automate testing and application packaging.

REMX Music Maker App

Built interactive react app for physical installion into retail stores.
Package app into electron for desktop distribution.
Support remote configuration.
Implemented interactive animations.

In-store interactive app

Lloyds Direct

Convert existing design system into React components.
Assist with integration with graphql API.
Assist with golang backend microservice build.
Create re-usable animation components.

Soopers Books

Built market unique mobile and tablet reading experience.
● Developed unique read-along feature.
● Developed audio book systems.
● Integrated with 3rd party APIs.
● Advise on technology and architecture decisions.
● Implement and advise on app UX.
● Deploy to Amazon, Google and Apple app stores.
● Implement in app payments and monetization of mobile app.

Childrens audio book app

Orbzii

Assisted in team hiring and interview process.
● Designed cloud infrastructure.
● Built market leading travel agent mobile app.
● Implemented design system.
● Implemented development and project processes.
● Implemented CI/CD.
● Designed and built GraphQL interface in Laravel application.
● Implemented Firebase services for auth, analytics, performance,
crashlytics and remote config.
● Implemented payment systems by integrating with Stripe.
● Designed and built recommendation and personalization using ML.

GoLang, Microservices, gRPC,Software Architecture, Software Engineering, Automation, DevOps, React.js, React Native

TeleportHQ

Teleport HQ is a startup building a collaborative low-code platform

• Set up and maintaining Kubernetes clusters in Google Cloud Platform
• Implement distributed, real-time features on backend with Node.js
• Set up CI/CD pipelines
• Carried out research and developed PoCs

Back End Developer

Evozon

Developed a software solution for a client in the banking sector that needed a goods evaluation platform for the process of offering loans.

• Did performance and optimization work on various web apps
• Set up CI/CD pipelines

Web developer

DevOps, Cloud, Infrastructure

JavaScript Full Stack Development

Full-stack Mobile & Web App Development Expert

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.

Technical Lead

Back end development, API development, Node.js development, software engineering

Department for Education

Lead and provide technical support for a large team of developers across a variety of products and services.

Work with the development community to ensure the Department build sustainable digital products.

Create and sustain modern development standards, practices and techniques for the Department's development community.

Support, coach and mentor less experienced developers and help them integrate into teams.

Advocate user-centric, agile approaches which focus on rapid, effective delivery of high-quality digital services.

Transform government into a modern, agile development centre by embedding practices such as Test-Driven Development, continuous deployment, and DevOps.

Support sharing of methods and technologies across teams, government, and the industry by participating in and organising community events.

Expert, freelance Deployment Automation engineers