Mo Fisher
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Mike Mowbray
Mo's technically strong and able to grok new technologies or technically-complex problems quickly. He's pragmatic and never complained about tackling the sorts of problems other engineers tend to shy away from. He came in as a junior engineer but quickly demonstrated a strong technical capability. He has a strong understanding of engineering good practice, including designing simple, efficient, well-tested solutions. Mo's always reliable in delivering efficiently and effectively and without a fuss and can be trusted to take the intiative and work without a lot of direction. He's done two stints at Findmypast now, and I'd definitely be more than happy to have him work in one of my teams in future.
Calum Munro
I worked closely with Maris for about 4 months, pairing with him on a wide variety of work. Our Agile team was involved in the active development and support of numerous microservices that harnassed technologies including Node.js, React.js, GraphQL, Elixir, Docker & Kubernetes. I came into the team as a more experienced engineer than Maris, but not in those javascript technologies, so I had a steep hill to climb. This process was helped greatly by team members like Maris who in particular, was always friendly, welcoming and knowledgeable. He made time on tasks to assist in solidifying my knowledge, allowing me to grow in confidence and capability in the team. Maris was a great asset to our team, and I hope to have the pleasure of working with him again in the future.
Mike Mowbray
Mo's technically strong and able to grok new technologies or technically-complex problems quickly. He's pragmatic and never complained about tackling the sorts of problems other engineers tend to shy away from. He came in as a junior engineer but quickly demonstrated a strong technical capability. He has a strong understanding of engineering good practice, including designing simple, efficient, well-tested solutions. Mo's always reliable in delivering efficiently and effectively and without a fuss and can be trusted to take the intiative and work without a lot of direction. He's done two stints at Findmypast now, and I'd definitely be more than happy to have him work in one of my teams in future.
Calum Munro
I worked closely with Maris for about 4 months, pairing with him on a wide variety of work. Our Agile team was involved in the active development and support of numerous microservices that harnassed technologies including Node.js, React.js, GraphQL, Elixir, Docker & Kubernetes. I came into the team as a more experienced engineer than Maris, but not in those javascript technologies, so I had a steep hill to climb. This process was helped greatly by team members like Maris who in particular, was always friendly, welcoming and knowledgeable. He made time on tasks to assist in solidifying my knowledge, allowing me to grow in confidence and capability in the team. Maris was a great asset to our team, and I hope to have the pleasure of working with him again in the future.
Mike Mowbray
Mo's technically strong and able to grok new technologies or technically-complex problems quickly. He's pragmatic and never complained about tackling the sorts of problems other engineers tend to shy away from. He came in as a junior engineer but quickly demonstrated a strong technical capability. He has a strong understanding of engineering good practice, including designing simple, efficient, well-tested solutions. Mo's always reliable in delivering efficiently and effectively and without a fuss and can be trusted to take the intiative and work without a lot of direction. He's done two stints at Findmypast now, and I'd definitely be more than happy to have him work in one of my teams in future.
Calum Munro
I worked closely with Maris for about 4 months, pairing with him on a wide variety of work. Our Agile team was involved in the active development and support of numerous microservices that harnassed technologies including Node.js, React.js, GraphQL, Elixir, Docker & Kubernetes. I came into the team as a more experienced engineer than Maris, but not in those javascript technologies, so I had a steep hill to climb. This process was helped greatly by team members like Maris who in particular, was always friendly, welcoming and knowledgeable. He made time on tasks to assist in solidifying my knowledge, allowing me to grow in confidence and capability in the team. Maris was a great asset to our team, and I hope to have the pleasure of working with him again in the future.
Mike Mowbray
Mo's technically strong and able to grok new technologies or technically-complex problems quickly. He's pragmatic and never complained about tackling the sorts of problems other engineers tend to shy away from. He came in as a junior engineer but quickly demonstrated a strong technical capability. He has a strong understanding of engineering good practice, including designing simple, efficient, well-tested solutions. Mo's always reliable in delivering efficiently and effectively and without a fuss and can be trusted to take the intiative and work without a lot of direction. He's done two stints at Findmypast now, and I'd definitely be more than happy to have him work in one of my teams in future.
Calum Munro
I worked closely with Maris for about 4 months, pairing with him on a wide variety of work. Our Agile team was involved in the active development and support of numerous microservices that harnassed technologies including Node.js, React.js, GraphQL, Elixir, Docker & Kubernetes. I came into the team as a more experienced engineer than Maris, but not in those javascript technologies, so I had a steep hill to climb. This process was helped greatly by team members like Maris who in particular, was always friendly, welcoming and knowledgeable. He made time on tasks to assist in solidifying my knowledge, allowing me to grow in confidence and capability in the team. Maris was a great asset to our team, and I hope to have the pleasure of working with him again in the future.
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Pitching Your Ideas Strategically
LinkedInFeb, 2021- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Findmypast
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United Kingdom
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Technology, Information and Internet
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100 - 200 Employee
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Principal Software Engineer
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Apr 2023 - Present
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Senior Software Development Engineer
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Sep 2021 - Apr 2023
Initially working on a team focussing on improving SEO across the website, in March 2022 I moved into a team focused on improving early engagement in our tree product, working in a newly adopted squad/tribe model. In June 2022, I took over as the engineering team lead, helping to improve the team processes, remove friction (not only in our ability to deliver projects, but also within the team itself), and lead the team through a variety of user and data-driven projects.In September 2022, I took on my first direct report and started the transition into the management track (currently managing four engineers) Show less
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Software Engineer
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Oct 2020 - Sep 2021
Working on a team focussing on improving SEO across the website, and helping deprecate and migrate some of our CMS platforms, including the migration of the Zendesk help centre to a self-hosted solution, making use of the Zendesk API, to improve our SEO and user experience in the help centre.
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Findmypast
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United Kingdom
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Technology, Information and Internet
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100 - 200 Employee
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Software Engineer
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Apr 2020 - Jul 2020
Short term contract due to the Covid-19 outbreak, primarily focusing on improving their services to accelerate product delivery teams. - JavaScript (ReactJS, NodeJS) - GraphQL - Automated testing - MSSQL Short term contract due to the Covid-19 outbreak, primarily focusing on improving their services to accelerate product delivery teams. - JavaScript (ReactJS, NodeJS) - GraphQL - Automated testing - MSSQL
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Triad Ltd.
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United Kingdom
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Advertising Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Web Developer
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Nov 2019 - Jan 2020
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Findmypast
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United Kingdom
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Technology, Information and Internet
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100 - 200 Employee
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Junior Software Engineer
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Jun 2018 - Nov 2019
- JavaScript (ReactJS, NodeJS) - GraphQL - C# - Debugging - Automated testing - MSSQL - PostGres - JavaScript (ReactJS, NodeJS) - GraphQL - C# - Debugging - Automated testing - MSSQL - PostGres
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Soldel Group
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Earls Barton, Northampton
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Junior Software Engineer
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Jun 2016 - May 2018
My role: - Supporting the customer services team when required (back-end support) - On-going development of a web-based system which programs our PCBs (PHP, HTML, JavaScript, Bash) - On-going development of a command line system which uses Watir to automatically collect data from our support website (Bash, Ruby, Watir) - Debugging/fault finding - QA (latest firmware and server releases) My role: - Supporting the customer services team when required (back-end support) - On-going development of a web-based system which programs our PCBs (PHP, HTML, JavaScript, Bash) - On-going development of a command line system which uses Watir to automatically collect data from our support website (Bash, Ruby, Watir) - Debugging/fault finding - QA (latest firmware and server releases)
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Business Data Group
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United Kingdom
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Information Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Junior PHP Developer (Internship)
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May 2015 - Sep 2015
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Education
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The University of Northampton
BSc Computing (Software Engineering), Computing