Description

Published author with 17 years of experience working on projects in media (Sky, Universal, BBC), banking and finance (HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Fidelity Investments), public sector (Transport for London), charities (Amnesty International, Mencap), and startups (Room Unlocked, PureGroup, Mush, Composed).

Specialities:

• Startup advice (product & technology)

• Helping teams ship business value faster

• Ruby on Rails projects / REST APIs

• Rescue projects

• Business process automation

• Team augmentation (including upskilling the existing team)

• Digital Transformation

• Continuous Delivery

Languages

English
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Remote only

Primarily works remotely

The Room
Lead Engineer / Acting CTO
DIGITAL AND IT
April 2021 - Today (5 years and 2 months)
London, UK
• Led delivery of new product instrumental to future of company
• Successful soft-launch in USA and planned international rollout
• Created and implemented hiring process used to run 30+ interviews and 5 hires
• Established team processes that allowed for rapid delivery of features
• Delivered most complex features like payment processing through Stripe and entitlements
• Integrations with Auth0, Salesforce, Cloudinary, SendGrid etc
Tech Lead Start-up Ruby on Rails Next.js React.js JavaScript Agile method User Experience Design User Interface Design Docker Firebase Git GitHub HTML5 Heroku Atlassian JIRA Customer Journey Lean startup Product management Social media PostgreSQL Responsive design REST Salesforce Team management Design Thinking Storytelling UI Web Design Webdesign Writing Wireframing Amazon Web Services Appium Lead Developer
HSBC
Consultant Platform Engineer
BANKING AND INSURANCE
September 2018 - April 2021 (2 years and 7 months)
Old St, London, UK
• Building advanced CI/CD pipelines to release versions of Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF)
• Zero-downtime upgrades on estate of 60K+ containers
• Managing multi-month migration project, including dashboards & KPI metrics
• Pro-active code improvement e.g. 64% options parsing reduction across 70+ files
• Customer support, and troubleshooting app issues including HSBC Mobile Banking apps
System engineering Continuous integration Functional testing Pivotal Cloud Foundry Technical project management Consulting Web development Back-End development Front-End development Ruby GO Docker VMWARE Finance sector Bank PAAS
Fidelity Investments
Consultant AWS Platform Engineer / Senior Software Engineer
BANKING AND INSURANCE
November 2017 - September 2018 (10 months)
London, United Kingdom
• Automating account creation process reducing time from 10-15 days to ~2 hours
• Implementing security-critical log collation feature (AWS Kinesis, Lambda), to ensure all
account activity was auditable via centralised logs
• Building a “heartbeat” health monitoring service for key components
• Mentoring junior developers in software development (and learning from them)
Amazon Web Services Ruby Bash Terraform Agile method Coaching Serverless

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Computer Science BSc (Hons)
The University of Manchester
2003
• Achieved 1st Class • Awarded prize for Top Student in Year

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