Experience

Gnosis

• Blockchain Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• DevOps Engineer

  • Dec 2022 - Present



Algorand Technologies

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• DevOps Engineer

  • Jan 2021 - Dec 2022



Spare Space Taxis Ltd

• United Kingdom
• Travel Arrangements
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Data Engineer

  • Jul 2019 - Jan 2021

  Built enterprise ready Microsoft Azure cluster infrastructure from the ground up. Wrote all the backend Python code including the pub/sub internal messaging, online payments api, reporting and customer invoicing. Migrated the standard taxi booking app and its infrastructure to Azure. Extracted, transformed and loaded the live taxi longitude and latitude data from the Google Maps API for business analysis and to try to find return trip pick ups. Built enterprise ready Microsoft Azure cluster infrastructure from the ground up. Wrote all the backend Python code including the pub/sub internal messaging, online payments api, reporting and customer invoicing. Migrated the standard taxi booking app and its infrastructure to Azure. Extracted, transformed and loaded the live taxi longitude and latitude data from the Google Maps API for business analysis and to try to find return trip pick ups.



Royal Bank of Scotland Business

• United Kingdom
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Infrastructure Engineer

  • Jan 2018 - Jul 2019

  Managed Dev and UAT environments for around forty development teams with request and incident resolution tickets. Delivered proof of concept AWS for non-critical infrastructure and helped application teams migrate from the on-premises datacenter to cloud. Terraforming autoscaling development clusters with basic observability. Developed a self-service online web portal for anonymised point-in-time restores for UAT and load testing. Managed Dev and UAT environments for around forty development teams with request and incident resolution tickets. Delivered proof of concept AWS for non-critical infrastructure and helped application teams migrate from the on-premises datacenter to cloud. Terraforming autoscaling development clusters with basic observability. Developed a self-service online web portal for anonymised point-in-time restores for UAT and load testing.



Credit Suisse

• Switzerland
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Infrastructure Engineer

  • Jan 2015 - Dec 2017

  Provisioned Prod ready infrastructure with an on-call support rota, ticketing and KPIs. Troubleshooting Prod incidents regarding infrastructure or databases across a vast estate of thirty thousand employees. Fast paced environment that required significant communication with other stakeholders. Many migrations and Prod fixes applied out of hours and on weekends. Produced database designs, schema refactors, ETL tools and custom utils. Provisioned Prod ready infrastructure with an on-call support rota, ticketing and KPIs. Troubleshooting Prod incidents regarding infrastructure or databases across a vast estate of thirty thousand employees. Fast paced environment that required significant communication with other stakeholders. Many migrations and Prod fixes applied out of hours and on weekends. Produced database designs, schema refactors, ETL tools and custom utils.



Barclays Corporate & Investment Bank

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Data Engineer

  • Jun 2011 - Dec 2014

  Assigned to the Front Office trade capture system (clustered hardware with high volume feeds and complex ETL) in the high-pressure environment of the trading floor. Promoted to VP of Technology for improvements to the platform. Architect and dev of a risk tenor data warehouse with backup and archiving. Modelled and developed reporting layer with analysts. Leadership position, mentoring three new members into the team. Assigned to the Front Office trade capture system (clustered hardware with high volume feeds and complex ETL) in the high-pressure environment of the trading floor. Promoted to VP of Technology for improvements to the platform. Architect and dev of a risk tenor data warehouse with backup and archiving. Modelled and developed reporting layer with analysts. Leadership position, mentoring three new members into the team.



Sky

• United Kingdom
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 700 & Above Employee

• Development Engineer

  • Jan 2008 - Jun 2011

  Resolved requests and incidents for Dev infrastructure and databases. Adding new infrastructure, build automations and PL/SQL code reviews. Started an early focus on DevOps and Agile TDD here. Empowered teams to release their own changes automatically, automated build servers and testing with commit feedback to Dev. Resolved requests and incidents for Dev infrastructure and databases. Adding new infrastructure, build automations and PL/SQL code reviews. Started an early focus on DevOps and Agile TDD here. Empowered teams to release their own changes automatically, automated build servers and testing with commit feedback to Dev.



BAE Systems Digital Intelligence

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Development Consultant

  • Dec 2005 - Dec 2007

  Consulted for a wide range of digital Defence and National Security clients in a customer facing role. Giving an early introduction into a wide range of enterprise platforms, technologies and programming languages. Introduction to teamwork, capturing requirements, writing code and delivering highly-available clustered platforms. Consulted for a wide range of digital Defence and National Security clients in a customer facing role. Giving an early introduction into a wide range of enterprise platforms, technologies and programming languages. Introduction to teamwork, capturing requirements, writing code and delivering highly-available clustered platforms.