Experience

iWantGreatCare

• United Kingdom
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Technology Officer

  • Feb 2023 - Present



Distributed

• United Kingdom
• Software Development
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Technical Director

  • Aug 2022 - Feb 2023



Axis

• United Kingdom
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head Of Engineering

  • Dec 2021 - Aug 2022

  Lead a remote-first team of engineers responsible for transition of legacy MVP real time collaborative SAAS application to enterprise grade, resilient platform, written in Typescript/React/Node JS running on Kubernetes in AWS.Responsible for architecture design for key micro services, working closely with product and senior developers to overcome spec out sprint tickets, prioritise and deliver work. Overcame challenges around rolling out new versions of a substantial redesign whilst maintaining backwards compatibility and maintaining existing data structures with minimal adverse impact on users.Recruited and onboarded engineers entirely remotely, transitioned the existing team into a fully-remote working setup. Handled people related matters such as performance reviews, mentoring, coaching and nurturing personal development.Oversaw migration of platform to Kubernetes and a CI/CD pipeline, working with both external consultants and internal devops to deliver a resilient, scalable solution on AWS/GCP Show less

• Senior Developer

  • Aug 2018 - Dec 2021

  Joined in the early stages of the startup, I worked with a team of four to build out the core MVP for a real time collaborative SAAS application in Node Js and React, and set up the first iteration of cloud architecture and deployment pipeline.As the team grew, I became more involved in higher level design, writing specifications for sprint tickets, mentoring, coaching, recruiting and pushing for code quality checks and balances.Dealt extensively with removing performance bottlenecks and improving reliability/scalabilityLargely responsible for security issues, oversaw technical implications of obtaining ISO27001 certification, helped set up security committee, built an automated pentesting solution using Owasp Zap and selenium. Show less



iWantGreatCare

• United Kingdom
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior PHP Developer

  • Oct 2015 - Aug 2018

  Part of a small team building and maintaining a web based healthcare review platform, using Yii and Phalcon php frameworks. Dealt with performance and scalability issues, migrating from a legacy Ruby platform to a modern SOA, api based solution. Key accomplishments include leading a team of 3 to deliver a £300k project on time and budget, consisting of a complex Elasticsearch based reporting solution and integrating a 3rd party paper form scanning solution. Refactored poorly performing code to messaging queue based background tasks. Optimised MySql tables, indices and slow running queries. Wrote large and complex ETLs. Responsibilities included estimation of projects, architectural decision making, working with product managers and senior management team team to create business cases and guiding technical team to deliver technical solutions with extremely limited resource constraints and tight deadlines, and recruiting/onboarding new developers Show less



Apartime

• Barcelona

• Senior Web Developer

  • Jun 2013 - Jun 2015

  Returned in a new role as senior developer to this fast growing vacation rental company to help grow the company from managing around 100 vacation rentals in Barcelona city to a be a fully fledged booking engine with real time availability and pricing for over 20,000 properties around the world, synchronising across dozens of large portals such as airbnb and booking.com. Automated several administrative systems including invoicing, and built reporting tools, saving hundreds of staff hours a month compared to previous manual procedures, which meant a significant reduction in administrative costs for the company. Managed a small development team, plus a team of content writers and SEO specialists. Show less



ClicProject

• Barcelona

• Freelance Web Developer

  • Jan 2012 - Jun 2013

  Freelance web developer Freelance web developer



Apartime S.L.

• Barcelona

• Web Developer / Online Marketing Manager

  • Oct 2008 - Dec 2011

  Web developer and online marketing Manager. Responsible for online marketing team Web developer and online marketing Manager. Responsible for online marketing team



Freelance web developer

• Barcelona

• Freelance Web Developer

  • Jan 2005 - Sep 2008

  Freelance web developer, creating websites for small and medium businesses. Freelance web developer, creating websites for small and medium businesses.