Director of Engineering

• Sep 2020 - Present

Technical Advisor and Lead

• Jun 2020 - Sep 2020

To aid in KYC solutions with Product Owner to review and develop the technical roadmap, API strategy and platform strategy in Azure. Review SDLC processes in Azure DevOps and improve workflow To aid in KYC solutions with Product Owner to review and develop the technical roadmap, API strategy and platform strategy in Azure. Review SDLC processes in Azure DevOps and improve workflow

Head of Platform Engineering

• Jan 2020 - Jun 2020

Head of Digital Engineering

• Nov 2018 - Jan 2020

As part of this role, I will be driving a Digital, Agile transformation across the Digital Hub and putting together a strategy around IT that will lay the foundations for the company to grow into the new ways of working and culture. My role involves working closely with the CIO to drive through change, to push good practices in Cloud/DevOps competencies, and enabling the culture to match it. Moving teams away from Projects to more Product orientated squads. Creating and developing the roadmap for migration to cloud platforms. Reducing costs and improving efficiencies in teams and external partnerships. Lead the Black Friday task force and dramatically improved the stability of the Digital Platform within 3 months to ensure zero downtime for the two biggest Digital sales peaks. Show less

Founder

• Sep 2017 - Jan 2020

Its been a long desire to build up a Company with a desire to engage with clients for DevOps and Digital transformations a little differently but here we are. Being the founder means I have to do everything but its such a great feeling to work with so many great people. Its been a long desire to build up a Company with a desire to engage with clients for DevOps and Digital transformations a little differently but here we are. Being the founder means I have to do everything but its such a great feeling to work with so many great people.

IoTA Development Manager and Principle DevOps Lead

• Jun 2016 - Sep 2017

I worked in the Internet Of Things Analytics Division where I was in charge of a number of delivery teams and reported to the VP of Engineering for the UK. I worked specifically on the Ingest Analytics solution which focused on the ingest of large data. Key parts of my job involved designed and creating infrastructure as code using Terraform and Ansible on AWS, OpenStack and baremetal SLES servers. The product migrated from Apache Mesos and Marathon to Kubernetes as the container orchestration platform. Developing the underling microservices in Go. Skills used: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Teradata Databases, Go, ELK stack, Prometheus, Grafana, AWS, Openstack, Mesos and Marathon. The projects I worked on gave me great insight into processing/ingesting vast quantities of data and how to get the best out of agile development processes. From a non-technical point of view I really enjoyed being able to be a servant-leader and manage both local and remote teams and offices. Show less

Head of Cloud and DevOps Technologies

• Sep 2015 - Sep 2017

Provide expertise in concepts and tooling around Cloud, DevOps and containers. Specialising in Cloud Application Migrations Roadmap adoptions Cloud Cost and Performance Optimisation DevOps Assessments Cloud, Security and DevOps mentoring Provide expertise in concepts and tooling around Cloud, DevOps and containers. Specialising in Cloud Application Migrations Roadmap adoptions Cloud Cost and Performance Optimisation DevOps Assessments Cloud, Security and DevOps mentoring

Architect and Principle Lead on AWS Cloud Migration

• Dec 2015 - Mar 2016

Lead of initial proof of concept for the setup of Sainsbury's e-commerce solution in the AWS Cloud. As part of the work here I defined the sprints and migration strategies for the Sainsbury's Groceries Online environments. Work here included migration and implementation to AWS RDS but also implementing and comparing Oracle RAC behaviours in AWS. Defining and implementing AWS Security best practices. Designing and Implementing AWS IAAS services. Creation and network implementation of VPNs to key DataCentres. Defined locked down Security Groups. Implementation of Large data export. Importing of ESXi clones into AWS. Show less

Technical Solution Architect - Enterprise Integration

• Sep 2012 - May 2015

Initially was brought in as a SME for SDLC tooling and good working practices within IBM utilising the Rational Tools Rational Requirements Composer Rational Team Concert Rational Quality Manager Part way through this project because of my Build and Release expertise I was also made the Build Team lead and SM. This included providing a 2 year strategic roadmap moving from large sequential maintenance releases to frequent releases involving parallel development strategies. In additional to this work within the IBM account I was also utilised by IBM's client as an SME to work on their Software Configuration Management Project and have had numerous trips to New York to assist them. This project has involved implementing the Atlassian Tools JIRA, Bamboo Stash Crowd FishEye Crucible Confluence In addition to advising the client on setting these tools up I also provided expertise in Git and then and implemented a completely new centralised build process for the client utilising Maven and integrating with Bamboo. My deep knowledge in IT security meant I also became a Security Champion and designed implemented Rational AppScan with C/CPP and Java applications. Also assisting the IBM Software group in providing steps in how to scan C/CPP code compiled on AIX using the Xlc onto Linux AppScan servers. Show less

Ecommerce Solution Architect

• Apr 2011 - Aug 2012

During my time at Sainsburys I was involved in a number of key projects. The projects mainly concerned the E-commerce sites. I was the principle Solution architect in identifying performance improvements with the existing E-commerce and providing strategies and a solution outline on manage peak 'Black Friday' bandwidth with minimal infrastructure changes. This was a highly successful project achieving significant improvements. Provided detailed Solution Design for utilising the existing unused Disaster Recovery E-commerce site and utilising it as a 100% PreProduction site. In addition to utilising over 200 Disaster Recovery redundant servers to be used as a much needed PreProduction test environment the approach also included reducing the switch over from 24hours to less than 1 hour. Provided PCI-DSS expertise and was Development Lead to enable secure credit card compliance. BrandMatch. I was approached to oversee a third party IT company and provide assessments to their capability and work practices to senior management. I successfully devised and implemented a performance test harness with the REPOS system. Show less

Configuration, Environments and Data Manager

• Oct 2010 - Mar 2011

Working on critical Core Banking SAP migration solution. Working on critical Core Banking SAP migration solution.

Solution Architect

• Feb 2010 - Oct 2010

Provide architectural solution to ensuring IBM Client was PCI compliant and design the a Payment gateway - predominantly using Java technologies. Provide architectural solution to ensuring IBM Client was PCI compliant and design the a Payment gateway - predominantly using Java technologies.

Senior C Developer

• Feb 2008 - Jan 2010

Worked as Lead C Developer and Solution Designer. As part of my work I was in charge of developing XML web services and building and refactoring the build and unit test practices. During my time I was also seconded to the Front-End development team where if developed part of the Companies House Web Filing website. Worked as Lead C Developer and Solution Designer. As part of my work I was in charge of developing XML web services and building and refactoring the build and unit test practices. During my time I was also seconded to the Front-End development team where if developed part of the Companies House Web Filing website.

Senior Designer

• 2001 - 2005

Developer

• 1999 - 2001