Java Services

HMRC-CIP/Equal Experts

Working on secure/compliant real-time data ingestion and warehousing for a petabyte scale analytics platform. Based on AWS using s3/hudi, Scala/Spark, Apache Kafka, Scala/Python/Jupyter Notebooks, and for infrastructure Terraform, Packer, Docker (Linux and bash).

Data Pipelines Engineer

Elsewhen/Finecast

Building an AI assisted TV advertising distributions system. Working as part of a small ML team of Data Scientists prototyping then productionising a model (Tensor Flow) that can optimally match slots during ad-breaks with advertisments based on a number of factors. Hosted in GCP (Cloud Run, Cloud Tasks, Vertex AI, Big Query), data pipelines using a custom Python app (housed in Docker containers linked via Cloud Tasks) and the infrastructure auchestrated via Terraform.

MLOps Engineer

Allplants

Assisting the team to improve a skeleton implementation and grow a data engineering team.

Allplants Data Warehouse

John Lewis

Part of a team developing an in-house recommendations service, to replace 3rd parties. Provided infrastructure and CI/CD tools to improve observability, automation, and more efficient data pipelines. Working closely with Data Science and Software Engineering teams to train, assess, deploy and monitor ML models for the John Lewis website.

John Lewis Reccomendations

Awaze

design and build for a new data-warehouse, consolidating and harmonising data from across many subsidiary businesses across europe. Coaching internal team on data-engineering practices and DataOps. Using Python (DBT, Jinja), Terraform, Snowflake, Matillion, Airflow, Liquibase, SQL, AWS (CloudWatch, EC2, EBS, Lambda, SQS, IAM, Networking etc…), SodaSQL.

Awaze Data Warehouse

data engineering, ML Ops, DevOps, software engineering

React and Node software development

JP Morgan & Chase

Worked on designing and helping prototype a UI for Restricted Markets for the FX desk for the first 6 months.
Secondly worked on the CIB PCO project, re-architectured the Front-End and installed best practices.

Restricted Markets & PCO

Amido

Joined Amido (consultancy) to start work on the redevelopment of the Hackney Council Modern Tools for Housing (MTFH) project.
Later moved to work partially on a discovery phase for The Gym Group and implementation of a CMS called Amplience.

Hackney Council / The Gym Group

Appnovation

Built the product eCommerce site for the US variant of Souvenaid, a product from Danone.

Next.JS, React, Netlify, Tailwind. I did all the backend integrations with gigya.

Souvenaid US (Danone)

South-East Supercar Club

Ignore the job title, just being facetious.

Part of a car club, got bored of the website that was built on Wix so created an app for them. It's an iterative process but good fun.

Built the full-stack, including GraphQL/MongoDB Atlas integrations. Using Expo as a platform and React Native (w/ Native Base) for the cross-platform app UI.

Buy me a large pinot noir if you want to know more...

Obnoxious Twat

React/JavaScript/Typescript

Frontend React Development

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.

Big Think

Technical Lead / Product Manager

The Economist

During my time at The Economist I was tasked with contributing to their existing Design System, which is used across all their digital products, as well as helping to build out the website to showcase the styleguide.

Design System

London School of Economics

My time at LSE was to build a micro-site for students returning to studies post-lockdown. The site is a headless React SPA serving content from a third-party API.

Micro-site

Apple

During my time at Apple I was responsible for upgrading and providing support for some important internal software. The focus was on adding essential features and ensuring stability.

Upgrading Internal Software

Paper Trails

Paper Trails is an online app where you can create and purchase customised prints of your outdoor activities, challenges or travels, either by connecting Strava or uploading GPX files.

Technical Director / Co-founder

Meshii WiFi

At Meshii I was hired to be the Software Architect and team lead for a small group of talented developers. This involved bootstrapping the application, devops and deployment strategies while also coordinating workflows and feature development.

Software Architect

Front-end web development

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

Cloud Consultant

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.

Expert, freelance GitHub engineers