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

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.

Senior DevOps and Cloud engineer

DevOps and Cloud Consultant

Applause

- Developing new product features for the high-volume single page application applying knowledge of Java 11, Node.js and Angular.
- Improved web application performance and UX with migrating 90% of the codebase from Angular.js to Angular 11 and leveraging its optimization potential.
- Reduced web application tech debt by moving deprecated midtier backend calls to dedicated app BFF and upgrading codebase to Typescript.
- Optimized web development lifecycle by migrating two web applications from their own repositories to central web-app monorepo.
- Increased chat application unit test coverage from 21% to 78%.
- Moved platform application queue traffic from AWS SQS to RabbitMQ resulting over 30% cost reduction spent on external queue service.

Full Stack Developer

EY GDS

- Developing new and customization of the existing features for the multi purpose web application using Java and Angular 7. Focused on document automation module.
- Improved developer and end user experience migrating UI from Thymeleaf to Angular.
- Integrating with third-party services and external APIs as a part of implementation of the critical backend component providing authentication feature with SAML2 protocol.
- Participating in peer code reviews for the mission-critical online service maintaining code and design consistency across different team members.

BDSolutions

- Design and implementation of Godly mobile application with strict cooperation with the UX and graphics department.
- Setup the processes of releasing and distributing the application to the Google Play store.

Mobile Developer

X-Trade Brokers

- Initiative and implementation of an application for managing client content and application translations, which resulted in the possibility of changing application translations at any time and synchronization between environments.
- Modernized key web application for customers by updating web technologies from jQuery / Velocity to Angular.js resulting in increase in user retention.
- Introduced two-way communication using Websockets to a critical web application, which allowed the client to be informed about the status of his operations in real time.
- Increasing the productivity of Java programmers by introducing the JRebel tool to reload the code without restarting the application.
- Design and implementation of new cross-system functionalities in cooperation with other project teams.
- Performing the role of the technical leader of the team during the last months of work.
- Monitoring, troubleshooting, debugging and bug fixing of the applications.
- Integration with several online payment providers, providing customers with additional channels for card payments or using banking systems, which translated into an increase in the amount of deposits in transaction accounts and the company’s profit.
- Integrating with internal services and APIs (i.e. CRM or trading system) as a part of
implementation of the mission-critical backend application for processing client account related operations resulting in shortening the time of creating an account by over 90%.
- Developing and maintaining internal libraries and API clients.
- Introduced a system of calculating commissions on deposits made, which allowed to reduce the cost of servicing payment systems.
- Performance tuning of the business-critical application database for asynchronous
processing using Hibernate improving query execution time by 30-60% and overall system response time.
- Design, implementation and deployment of a central client database, which allowed to reduce data duplication among the internal systems.
- Creating internal tools for monitoring the activity of logged in users with the use of JMX.
- Experimenting with front-end frameworks for business-critical accounting application that helped to boost project development efficiency.
- Using tools for static code analysis and elimination of blocker, critical, and major issues from critical business application.
- Mentoring and couching newly hired team members and juniors resulting in over 50% of onboarding time decrease.

Software Developer

Xentivo

- Preparation of the MVP application for submitting electronic applications for funding under the European Entrepreneurship Development Program.
- Developing new and customization of the existing features for the document management application based on open source NuxeoDM and commercial Documentum platforms.
- Coordinated with engineering and product teams in the identification of customer requirements for the document management application.
- Conducting training on the use of the application for end users.
- Preparation and implementation of a demo application for potential clients.

Java Programmer

Fullstack developer

Public Sector Company

Sedex

Developing B2B web app to enable supply chain companies to do business in ethical way 

Full stack development and IT Consultancy 

Nationwide Building Society

Mortgages

MyKindaFuture

Full-stack developer role to help with rebrand and adding new features to client's applications.

Connectr

Full stack development

Redrock Consulting / Kanios / Land Registry

Lead several teams on 2 major order management projects to create an external facing customer product to capture applications to amend or create land registers.

 Digital Registration Service

IOTEC Global

Technical lead of infrastructure and continuous delivery team. Designed and built the continuous delivery pipeline and infrastructure as code for numerous cloud-based AWS clusters.

Expert Software Engineer

Land Registry

Head of Practice for Software Engineering.
Implemented common coding standards and guidelines across the organisation.
Designed and built common components used by 20+ teams.
Coached and mentored on coding, automated testing, continuous delivery, software architecture and design

Lead Software Engineer

Lead teams on many successful business critical and transformational projects.
Designed software architecture and actively developed throughout the period.
 Built continuous integration and delivery pipelines

Technical Architect

Tech Leadership with a focus on Python development

Front End Developer

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.

Expert, freelance Jenkins engineers