Experience

Yobota

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head Of Technical Operations

  • Feb 2018 - Present

  Yobota is a fintech company that develops and runs a cloud-based, SaaS B2C banking platform. I started working with Yobota just before they went live with their first client Chetwood Financial to lead their transformation from a development team into a service organisation capable of providing a stable, scalable, supportable and secure platform with 24x7 support. I recruited and managed the team supporting the production systems until recruiting a successor and moving to the Technical Operations role. In this role I work closely with both clients and internal stakeholders as well as external suppliers and auditors. My role is to champion non-functional requirements within the business such as observability, security, alerting, technical compliance, performance and tooling while providing a bridge between the support and development groups within the company. Show less



Nimble Results

• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lead Consultant

  • Mar 2017 - Dec 2018

  Providing comprehensive technical review and engineering leadership evaluation services. Providing comprehensive technical review and engineering leadership evaluation services.



Defined Outcomes

• London, United Kingdom

• Technical Director

  • Aug 2016 - Dec 2018

  As an independent consultant working with networks such as Saccade, Nimble Results and others I have acted as interim CTO for Andromeda POS as well as providing technical and product development process review, technical due diligence and recommendation services for ClusterSeven, Redbox Recorders, Depop, LightwaveRF and more. As an independent consultant working with networks such as Saccade, Nimble Results and others I have acted as interim CTO for Andromeda POS as well as providing technical and product development process review, technical due diligence and recommendation services for ClusterSeven, Redbox Recorders, Depop, LightwaveRF and more.



Rituala

• London, United Kingdom

• Technical Director

  • Apr 2015 - Nov 2017

  A founding director at Rituala focusing on providing bespoke software development. Projects: Delivered Betfair's first ever B2B product on time and on budget as well as technically leading its first client integration, personally responsible for the full 17 person (at max) team from inception through to successful delivery. Delivered Matchbook's first set of data APIs to enable them to leverage previously inaccessible customer information. Led moving MultiIndex from a non-resilient, beta infrastructure being used in production to a supportable, scalable and resilient infrastructure. Show less



Andromeda POS

• United Kingdom
• Software Development
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Interim CTO

  • Aug 2016 - Nov 2016

  I worked with the in-house executive team to define a clear company strategy and roadmap, while introducing delivery best practices and refocusing the company to deliver on this strategy along with hiring a high-quality permanent CTO to take the company forward long-term. I worked with the in-house executive team to define a clear company strategy and roadmap, while introducing delivery best practices and refocusing the company to deliver on this strategy along with hiring a high-quality permanent CTO to take the company forward long-term.



Geonomics

• London, United Kingdom

• Software Architect

  • Mar 2010 - Jun 2015

  Technical architect (and second staff member) at Geonomics Global Games, where I guided a 30-strong team blending internal and outsourced development resource to deliver a fully PCI and Gambling Commission certified lottery and instant win gaming platform both run in-house for the UK market and made available to partners worldwide. Technical architect (and second staff member) at Geonomics Global Games, where I guided a 30-strong team blending internal and outsourced development resource to deliver a fully PCI and Gambling Commission certified lottery and instant win gaming platform both run in-house for the UK market and made available to partners worldwide.



Betfair

• United Kingdom
• Software Development
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Development Consultancy Manager

  • Nov 2006 - Feb 2010

  A development lead at Betfair, the world's largest betting exchange. Betfair operates a 24x7 bet matching exchange, serving over 4 billion page impressions per week on a global infrastructure and operating one of the most highly contended DB systems in the world. · Development Consultancy Lead within the Partner Development group, managing a team of senior development consultants. This group is tasked with ensuring successful delivery of projects that are being developed by Betfair's software development and COTS partners and provides external resource as a highly realistic, cost-effective and proven method of realizing business benefit to P&L holders for both internal and customer facing projects. The team has facilitated delivery of many successful outsourced projects and is considered one of the primary delivery channels within the business. · Responsible for managing due diligence on potential partners and development and enforcement of formal project life-cycle and gating procedures to ensure projects are delivered on-time and meet the exacting standards required of a financially transactional business. Show less



Kizoom

• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Stream Lead

  • Mar 2004 - Oct 2006

  A stream lead and head of software infrastructure at Kizoom, one of the most established XP houses in London, focussing on providing transport information to all of the major public transport bodies within the UK (National Rail, Transport for London, bus companies and local authorities country-wide). A stream lead and head of software infrastructure at Kizoom, one of the most established XP houses in London, focussing on providing transport information to all of the major public transport bodies within the UK (National Rail, Transport for London, bus companies and local authorities country-wide).



Intuwave Ltd

• Software Engineer

  • Oct 1999 - Nov 2003

  Over 4 years at Intuwave, I gained experience in a number of roles and responsibilities in areas ranging through messaging, application frameworks, marshalling systems and developer support tools. · Core developer producing a J2EE-based enterprise-level middle-ware system for incorporating smart phones into the corporate infrastructure. Extensible EJB & JMS-based service architecture and SDK designed to allow third-party developers easy access to mobile devices. Provided remote phone management and software deployment. Enabled mobile user authentication and integration with existing user management systems (Teamware & LDAP). Show less