Data Engineering. Python. Software Engineering. Data Science.

Amey Strategic Consulting

A major project to produce data science applications to improve the management of the Strategic Road Network

Data Science for Highways England

True 212

A natural language processing pipeline, including Named Entity Recognition, Part of Speech Tagging, Word Sense Disambiguation and Topic Modelling, to identify suitable external content to link to from news and culture blogs by matching on semantics rather than word frequencies.

Rapid Editorial Resource

Sopra Steria

Developing a platform to improve the efficiency of training and calibration of thresholds in HSBC's anti-money-laundering plaform

Snowflake

Rolls Royce

Creating a library to extract logically structured data from technical documents in a variety of formats, mainly scanned PDFs

Rolls Royce AI Hub

GHFP Research Institute

An interactive map of the Better Place Index (a metric of quality of life), allowing users to explore how quality of life varies from country to country and what the main contributing factors are.

The Better Place Index

Data science consultancy, Research and Development

Python development, Technical Leadership, Javascript development

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

Camelot lotteries

Senior data engineer 

Data engineering

Opvia

CTO & cofounder of Opvia, the end-to-end data platform for scientists.
Funded by YCombinator.
Customer research > sales > built the initial product from scratch.

Contract CTO, Full-stack Development, Startup Advisor

DevOps, AWS, Azure, Cloud Engineering

Senior Machine Learning Scientist

Full-stack Development (frontend oriented)

Centrica

Working on the front end of the company’s Analytics Platform Environment (APE) application. Implemented a number of features like a transposable table with computed columns from user specified formulas. Proposed a design of a generic tool for in-browser tabular data manipulation and visualization based on the dataflow programming paradigm


Analytics Platform Environment (APE)

Credit Suisse

Working on the bank’s real-time Forex trading single-page web application as a replacement for their legacy Java based desktop client. Implemented a number of features like simpler trading account selection and more user friendly error handling. Fixed a number of bugs and improved the way tile types were represented in the app state. Improved the way TypeScript was used for better type safety and fewer bugs. Wrote bulletproof unit and end to end tests.


FX Trading SPA

Department for International Trade of the UK Government

Working on various web applications owned by the department’s Digital team. Introduced and implemented the React/Redux/Redux-Saga architecture to the internal DataHub web application with a collection of low-level components for data management. Achieved a change of testing philosophy from mockist, white-box testing (London school) to top of the pyramid black box testing (Detroit school). Contributed to the department’s various other Python/Django and Node.js codebases. Mentored junior colleagues and civil servants through pair programming sessions and presentations.

Data Hub

Percentile

Ownership of the responsive real-time single page web application RiskMine — a future-proof alternative to the existing Java based desktop client of the company’s vast high-frequency real time data warehouse. Designed a React/Redux/Redux-Saga based frontend architecture conducive to rapid feature delivery. Implemented the application from scratch as a greenfield project and continued adding features on a very fast pace. Onboarded members of the engineering team to the paradigm and technologies used in the project to prepare them for the project’s ownership take-over by means of code review, pair programming and extensive documentation.


Risk Mine

Funding Circle

Working on the company’s internal web based tool for reconciliation of loan repayments. During this short period I fixed the application’s outdated CSS layout, made an audit of its biggest UX and technical issues and proposed an improvement to the current architecture, which included decoupling the app’s front-end and the back-end, switching to CSS in JS and using a component based architecture built on top of the Ant Design UX library.


Senior Software Engineer

Calipsa (acquired by Motorola))

Laid the foundations of the project of rewriting the customer facing application from a Python/Flask based prototype to a stable TypeScript/React/Node based product. Designed a solution and implemented a proof of concept for the problem of delivering a performant live video stream with metadata synchronized to the per-frame accuracy for the sake of rendering interactive bounding boxes of detected objects on top of the video. Implemented a Node.js tool for isomorphic conversion of MP4 files to JSON.


Full Stack Engineer

Cytora

Risk targeting, selection, and pricing engine for commercial insurance. Ownership of the whole stack of the customer facing application. Implemented a number of new features while shrinking the codebase and improved overall performance. Introduced best practices like AngularJS component based architecture, BEM methodology and database schema versioning management. Implemented advanced interactive data visualizations.


Uptime Slovakia (now Pipeliner Sales)

Responsible for the customer facing part of the Thomson Reuters' World-Check web application and two other internal applications. Created several advanced interactive data visualisations, like the interactive force-directed graph visualising relationships between World-Check entities.

Locandy

Implementing features and maintenance of the Locandy mobile geocaching application. Implemented history-aware badge system and a JSON based internationalization system with a GUI editor for translations.

Expert, freelance Python engineers