Experience

DataTruth

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

• Senior Technical Consultant

  • Jul 2023 - Present

  During my time with DataTruth, I provided strategic technical and engineering leadership for a multitude of clients. In particular, I led the delivery of a customer-facing portal (web app); architected an asynchronous system to integrate multiple enterprise tools (including Salesforce); contributed to a data pipeline to improve internal reporting and decision-making; devised a multi-year technical strategy and roadmap; and interviewed, mentored, and led engineering teams across multiple projects.My responsibilities included systems architecture design, software engineering, data modelling, technical strategy, standing up new teams, interviewing candidates, sprint management, software and vendor review. Show less

• Senior Technical Consultant

  • Jul 2022 - Jun 2023

  1 year full-time contract.



InsideOut®

• United Kingdom
• Mental Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Engineering (hands-on)

  • Dec 2020 - Jun 2022

  Joined InsideOut full-time after working with them previously as a contractor. As the most senior hands-on engineer in the business, I wore many hats and was often required to solve complex problems on-the-fly to drive the business forward. My role was predominantly hands-on, as well as leadership and line management. * Designed and built a secure, event-driven AWS cloud architecture using; ECS Fargate, Lambda, VPCs, Route 53, ELB, SES, ActiveMQ, RDS, CloudFront, S3, CloudMap, CloudWatch, etc. * Hands-on engineering with JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, Express, Koa, PostgreSQL, React.js, React Native, Tailwind, Python, Docker, Jest, Cucumber. * Coached my team in fundamental engineering principles including instrumentation, logging, unit/feature/integration/E2E testing, design patterns, and software quality metrics. * Fostered a team culture of continuous learning, cross-skilling, and self-improvement. * Created a high-productivity, psychologically safe, innovative, and enjoyable working environment. * Increased deployments to several times a day by building a fully automated CI/CD pipeline, including myriad code quality checks, testing, and deployments. * Implemented QA and review processes to ensure the quality and security of our software. * Conducted hundreds of interviews and hired top-tier engineering candidates. * Managed bi-weekly agile scrum sprints across 6-week product iterations. * Line-managed a hybrid team of UK and near-shore engineers. * Devised and set challenging and motivating OKRs at the business, team, and individual levels. * Achieved Cyber Essentials certification and HIPAA compliance for the business and laid the groundwork for achieving ISO 27001 compliance (to be completed shortly). * Led an R&D project to explore the use of VR for delivering meditation and group therapy in the metaverse. * Worked directly with global clients, giving them confidence in InsideOut's technology. Show less



Recombix - Innovation Consultancy

• United Kingdom
• Information Technology & Services

• Lead Engineer (full-stack, multiple contracts)

  • Aug 2015 - Dec 2020

  Created a digital agency for innovative software projects and hired a team of permanent and freelance software engineers to build MVPs and proof-of-concepts for businesses. * Asthma UK – Built chatbot for parents of children with asthma using Node.js, MongoDB, & Vue. * Unilever – Consulted on the possibility of using conversational interfaces for customer-facing products. * Danone – Built chatbot to help parents understand if their babies have cow’s milk allergy. * ING – Redesigned FX portal for internal use and consulted on the use of Alexa skills. * London Metropolitan University – Built a room booking system that ran on iPads and the web. * University of Portsmouth – Various web design, marketing, & entrepreneurship projects. * Marjolo - Built a number of proof of concept open banking integrations for their clients. * SABC – Built chatbot for users in Africa to subscribe to local news via Facebook Messenger, and reply with local news stories (including media) to journalists. * Atchai – Worked on various software projects using Node.js, MongoDB, & Vue. * SmarterQueue – Migrated a large monolithic PHP application from on-prem to AWS EC2 instances. * XenBot – Created a chatbot for mental health coaching, and a UI for the client to customise conversation flows and perform NLU training. Used Node.js, MongoDB, & Vue. * Jambo – Rebuilt two PHP APIs into a single, high-performance API using the Phalcon PHP framework. * Red Routemaster – Implemented bus tracking and job dispatch using TomTom Connect and Ticketer APIs. Integrated legacy booking system with website and internal systems. * MobilePhire – Developed a Ruby on Rails web app with Bootstrap, LESS, and PostgreSQL. * Settled - Built a real-time messaging platform using Node.js, Express, MongoDB, React, Redux, Web Sockets, & Docker. Broke down a legacy Drupal monolith into microservices. * Other - provided training to C-suite executives of an international gaming company on cloud vs. on-prem infrastructure. Show less



Motive Create

• United Kingdom
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lead Software Engineer

  • Apr 2019 - Mar 2020

  Formerly called Jigsaw XYZ. Hands on leadership role designing and building a £3m mobile banking platform (similar to Monzo/Revolut) for big-brand retail banks and NCR. Managed a team of 13 engineers (8 backend, 4 frontend, 1 data) to build 40+ microservices and mobile apps for iOS/Android. Had overall responsibility for technical architecture. * Responsible for roadmap planning and sprint management alongside product owner and scrum master. * Responsible for hiring, interviewing, testing, and training new technical staff, and upskilling existing team. * Improved CI/CD speed and effectiveness to allow several deploys per day, instead of weekly deploys. * Implemented automatic and manual code quality checks to reduce the volume/severity of bugs. * Balanced requirements of stakeholders to achieve a complete and reliable product on-time and budget. Skills Used: Kubernetes, Docker, Datadog, Vault, AWS, Azure, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, open banking APIs, Jira, roadmap planning, sprint management, team building, stakeholder management. Show less



InsideOut®

• United Kingdom
• Mental Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technical Lead

  • Apr 2018 - Mar 2019



NewGen Technology

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

• Co-Founder

  • Jan 2014 - Feb 2016

  NewGen Technology specialised in the recruitment of technical and non-technical professionals within all areas of Information Technology. We worked closely with organisations of all types and sizes from startups to large corporate enterprises. My role as Head of Technology involved building and maintaining our in-house CRM database software and website, training recruitment consultants in technical terminology, and setting up and supporting our computer and telephone systems. I developed NewGen's CRM software from scratch using full-stack JavaScript, with Node.js and MongoDB on the back-end and Sencha ExtJS on the front-end. Other duties as founder included; managing the accounts, invoicing, dealing with suppliers, clients and candidates, business planning, interviewing, and staff management. Show less



OneTap

• United Kingdom
• Advertising Services

• Founder

  • Jun 2012 - Mar 2015

  I founded OneTap in 2012 after developing the world's first commercially-viable NFC Business Cards and manufacturing them in the UK. With OneTap NFC cards, all it takes is a single tap on an NFC-enabled device, and your contact details are wirelessly downloaded. Since the start our cards were hugely successful - having been sold extensively in the UK and around the world. OneTap specialised in: * NFC Business Cards. * NFC Stickers, NFC Wristbands and more. * Premium Business Cards (without NFC). As founder and director my role at OneTap was to design and develop the physical products (e.g. NFC cards) as well as the digital products (e.g. the OneTap Profiles and wireless transfer of data). Day to day I also dealt with customer queries, sales enquires and developed new features as requested by our customers. Show less



SSE plc

• United Kingdom
• Utilities
• 700 & Above Employee

• Customer Support Agent

  • 2006 - 2014

  Throughout college and university I worked one day a week as a customer support agent for SSE Power Distribution, helping customers who were experiencing power cuts, handling complaints, manning the phones, dispatching engineers, and on-the-fly problem solving. Throughout college and university I worked one day a week as a customer support agent for SSE Power Distribution, helping customers who were experiencing power cuts, handling complaints, manning the phones, dispatching engineers, and on-the-fly problem solving.



Freelance

• Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom

• Freelance Web Developer

  • 2005 - 2014

  During my time at college and university I supplemented my part time job by designing and building websites for local businesses. I also sold web hosting services to individuals and businesses around the world. During my time at college and university I supplemented my part time job by designing and building websites for local businesses. I also sold web hosting services to individuals and businesses around the world.