Experience

AAT

• United Kingdom
• Accounting
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Back End Developer

  • Mar 2021 - Present



OSCAR MUSIC AND MEDIA LIMITED

• United Kingdom
• Consumer Services

• Developer

  • Dec 2017 - Feb 2021

  Lead role in creating greenfield observable, event-driven Node.js and Python micro-services with the goal of taking some of their most important systems out of a monolithic architecture. Architected lightweight, rules-based QA systems running in Docker Containers that could process 10s of thousands of music and video releases via RabbitMQ queues. Built QA systems based off of third-party offerings like Audible Magics content identification system. Authored webhook systems… Show more Lead role in creating greenfield observable, event-driven Node.js and Python micro-services with the goal of taking some of their most important systems out of a monolithic architecture. Architected lightweight, rules-based QA systems running in Docker Containers that could process 10s of thousands of music and video releases via RabbitMQ queues. Built QA systems based off of third-party offerings like Audible Magics content identification system. Authored webhook systems for the third-party integration of systems including RunDeck and HelloSign allowing the company to automate new user signup and onboarding and content Developed REST APIs to allow the creation of small React and Angular.js internal sites to help operations staff with issues like creating SSH keys for clients. Show less Lead role in creating greenfield observable, event-driven Node.js and Python micro-services with the goal of taking some of their most important systems out of a monolithic architecture. Architected lightweight, rules-based QA systems running in Docker Containers that could process 10s of thousands of music and video releases via RabbitMQ queues. Built QA systems based off of third-party offerings like Audible Magics content identification system. Authored webhook systems… Show more Lead role in creating greenfield observable, event-driven Node.js and Python micro-services with the goal of taking some of their most important systems out of a monolithic architecture. Architected lightweight, rules-based QA systems running in Docker Containers that could process 10s of thousands of music and video releases via RabbitMQ queues. Built QA systems based off of third-party offerings like Audible Magics content identification system. Authored webhook systems for the third-party integration of systems including RunDeck and HelloSign allowing the company to automate new user signup and onboarding and content Developed REST APIs to allow the creation of small React and Angular.js internal sites to help operations staff with issues like creating SSH keys for clients. Show less



Venntro Media Group

• United Kingdom
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Developer

  • Apr 2015 - Nov 2017

  Venntro was a completely agile-based development environment, working in 2-week sprints with continuous deployment going on throughout. Venntro allowed me to develop my microservice based architecture skills, though I mainly worked on platform improvements, bringing new features to the 40 million members across 30,000 (white-label) sites that included adding features that replicated Tinder, with the caching of members in redis which allowed smooth operation, to working on our email and… Show more Venntro was a completely agile-based development environment, working in 2-week sprints with continuous deployment going on throughout. Venntro allowed me to develop my microservice based architecture skills, though I mainly worked on platform improvements, bringing new features to the 40 million members across 30,000 (white-label) sites that included adding features that replicated Tinder, with the caching of members in redis which allowed smooth operation, to working on our email and messaging platform micro-services. I was part of the team that moved the photo and asset storage from the bare-metal hosting provider’s storage to AWS S3 and AWS S3 Glacier. Venntro had a monolithic customer-facing website but had started to move towards Ruby-based microservice backends for payment processing, member data manipulation, caching and storage as well as messaging (emails and private messages). Show less Venntro was a completely agile-based development environment, working in 2-week sprints with continuous deployment going on throughout. Venntro allowed me to develop my microservice based architecture skills, though I mainly worked on platform improvements, bringing new features to the 40 million members across 30,000 (white-label) sites that included adding features that replicated Tinder, with the caching of members in redis which allowed smooth operation, to working on our email and… Show more Venntro was a completely agile-based development environment, working in 2-week sprints with continuous deployment going on throughout. Venntro allowed me to develop my microservice based architecture skills, though I mainly worked on platform improvements, bringing new features to the 40 million members across 30,000 (white-label) sites that included adding features that replicated Tinder, with the caching of members in redis which allowed smooth operation, to working on our email and messaging platform micro-services. I was part of the team that moved the photo and asset storage from the bare-metal hosting provider’s storage to AWS S3 and AWS S3 Glacier. Venntro had a monolithic customer-facing website but had started to move towards Ruby-based microservice backends for payment processing, member data manipulation, caching and storage as well as messaging (emails and private messages). Show less



Law Business Research

• United Kingdom
• Information Services
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Senior Web Developer

  • Nov 2011 - Apr 2015

  Took leadership of redeveloping their leading title using more modern front-end and back-end development practices, working with the designer every step of the way. Built a key internal customer analytics system to help drive and target sales for the marketing team. Integrated third-party systems (newsletter providers, Shopify) with the internal CRM and verticals Mentored junior developers, helping them to grow and take more ownership of projects Took leadership of redeveloping their leading title using more modern front-end and back-end development practices, working with the designer every step of the way. Built a key internal customer analytics system to help drive and target sales for the marketing team. Integrated third-party systems (newsletter providers, Shopify) with the internal CRM and verticals Mentored junior developers, helping them to grow and take more ownership of projects



UKTV

• United Kingdom
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Web Developer

  • Feb 2011 - Nov 2011



International Baccalaureate

• Switzerland
• Education Administration Programs
• 700 & Above Employee

• Analyst Programmer

  • Sep 2007 - Jan 2011

  Creating and Maintaining systems for the administration of candidate marks and grades along with examiner and candidate registrations. Working in an Agile team with stakeholders from around the world.

• Analyst Programmer

  • Aug 2007 - Jan 2011



Kimberlin Library

• Junior Software Developer

  • Jul 2005 - Jul 2006