Experience

Thought Machine

• United Kingdom
• Software Development
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Chief Infrastructure Officer

  • Jan 2018 - 6 years

  London, United Kingdom

• Director of Platform Engineering

  • Jul 2014 - 9 years 6 months

  Shoreditch At Thought Machine I lead the platform engineering & infrastructure team, working with a number of languages, databases & deployment technologies to keep our software running smoothly & reliably, as well as leading development on our cutting-edge build system.



Google

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Feb 2013 - Jun 2014

  London, United Kingdom Lead developer of Kestrel, Google's next-generation WFST-based text normalization system for TTS. Launched in Android KitKat to great success. As part of our voice building team, constructed a system to build Google's text-to-speech voices reliably and easily, plugging into existing build infrastructure. Primary developer working on Google's new British English female voice, who launched to great acclaim:… Show more Lead developer of Kestrel, Google's next-generation WFST-based text normalization system for TTS. Launched in Android KitKat to great success. As part of our voice building team, constructed a system to build Google's text-to-speech voices reliably and easily, plugging into existing build infrastructure. Primary developer working on Google's new British English female voice, who launched to great acclaim: http://www.androidcentral.com/google-voice-search-gets-new-less-robotic-voice-uk Lots of other infrastructure & tooling work across our codebase.

• Speech Data Ops Engineer

  • Mar 2012 - Feb 2013

  London, United Kingdom Development of text normalization system for Google's text-to-speech engine which launched in Android Jellybean. Supporting data teams working on curation tasks for various languages. Created web UI to streamline QA reporting tasks for those teams.



The Optima Corporation

• Software Engineer

  • 2006 - 2011

  Auckland Implemented back-end road network library & solvers, and graphical rendering in the UI. Extensive GUI work including editing UI, map display etc. Assisted with data preparation & scrubbing tasks.