Experience

Takota Limited

• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder

  • Sep 2015 - Present

  United Kingdom SaaS apps for podcasting and email newsletters.



IGotAnOffer

• United Kingdom
• Professional Training and Coaching
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Interim CTO (Contract)

  • Dec 2018 - Mar 2019

  London, United Kingdom I built out a bespoke payment and scheduling platform for coaches. It replaced a manual process that was overwhelming staff. - Built a greenfield Django app and deployed it to Heroku (Bootstrap, Sass, Stripe, TimeKit). - Ran a technical interview process to find a permanent CTO.



Kopernio

• Software Engineer (Contract)

  • May 2018 - Sep 2018

  London, United Kingdom I worked part-time on growth engineering for Kopernio, a popular platform and browser extension to help academics access and manage research papers. - Added new features to the Chrome Extension to improve onboarding and engagement. - Added new backend APIs (Python, Flask, MySQL). - A/B testing and conversion optimisation (Google Optimize).



Cytora

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer (Contract)

  • Mar 2018 - May 2018

  London, United Kingdom Cytora is a London-based fintech startup that augments insurance underwriting with AI. I was brought in to quickly ship the first version of Cytora's SDK product on a three month schedule, before handing it over to a full-time employee. - Built a greenfield React app using MobX for state management. - Created an isolated sandbox for the app such that could be safely embedded on any customer's web page.



Elsevier

• Netherlands
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer (Contract)

  • Jun 2015 - Jun 2016

  London, United Kingdom Responsible for modernising and maintaining a suite of services for streaming news articles from the web and running a hierarchical clustering algorithm across them. Part-time. - Re-engineered an article scraping service to handle up to 1m articles/day (Python, MySQL). - Re-engineered a clustering proof-of-concept and deployed it as a production service. - Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering using Python, Numpy and scikit-learn.



Tradewave

• Founder

  • Dec 2013 - Mar 2015

  Greater New York City Area I founded and operated an algorithmic trading platform for cryptocurrencies. Users could author, simulate and execute Python-based trading strategies in the browser. - Scaled it up to 30+ live trading and backtesting servers (Python, RabbitMQ). - Implemented a custom trading and backtesting engine (Cython, Pandas). - Implemented a secure sandbox environment for user-supplied Python code (Docker, Grsecurity). - Full stack web development (Django, Backbone, HTML/CSS). - Raised… Show more I founded and operated an algorithmic trading platform for cryptocurrencies. Users could author, simulate and execute Python-based trading strategies in the browser. - Scaled it up to 30+ live trading and backtesting servers (Python, RabbitMQ). - Implemented a custom trading and backtesting engine (Cython, Pandas). - Implemented a secure sandbox environment for user-supplied Python code (Docker, Grsecurity). - Full stack web development (Django, Backbone, HTML/CSS). - Raised seed funding from a leading investor in the crypto space. Show less



Urban Tribe Network Limited

• Technology, Information and Internet

• iOS Developer

  • Sep 2012 - Dec 2013

  Remote Urban Tribe, launched in 2011, was available on web and mobile (iOS) to provide students with the best deals in their city as well as top tips on where to go and what to do.



Kippt

• Software Engineer (Contract)

  • Jun 2012 - Aug 2012

  San Francisco Bay Area I was brought in to help out for the summer as the company went through Y Combinator. - Built out custom analytics to support growth (cohort analysis, user clustering, etc.) - Backend development (Django, Redis and Celery). - Caching and other speed optimisations for a fast growing site under heavy load. - Built an iOS plugin that shipped with the popular Pocket app.



InboxQ

• Software Engineer (Intern)

  • Jul 2011 - Sep 2011

  San Francisco Bay Area InboxQ (YC W10) indexed the location and expertise of the entire Twitter user base to create a Q&A platform. - Designed, built and launched an iPhone app as the company's first mobile offering. - Backend development (Django, CouchDB). - Built a web-based Twitter expertise visualisation tool that was picked up by the Wall Street Journal.



Vodafone

• United Kingdom
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• R&D Software Engineer (Intern)

  • Jul 2010 - Jun 2011

  Reading, United Kingdom Tasked with developing a suite of tools for analysing and visualising large volumes of geolocation data for an R&D project. - Designed and built two mobile apps with the iOS SDK (for iPhone and iPad). - Designed and built a web-based visualisation tool using ExtJS, Google Maps, Raphael and CherryPy/ - Helped to manage an internal NFC payment trial servicing 400+ users across two campuses.



Formac Electronics Ltd

• Software Intern

  • Jul 2009 - Sep 2009

  Bath, United Kingdom Web-based B2B monitoring tools. Django, ExtJS and wxPython.



Resillion

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Software Intern

  • Jul 2007 - Mar 2008

  Bristol, United Kingdom Year out before university. CherryPy, front-end web development and PostgreSQL. Test engineering for televisions and STBs.