Experience

Findmypast

• United Kingdom
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Jul 2018 - Present

  • Worked on a family history product featuring billions of searchable records. • Practiced continuous integration, delivery and paired programming.• Obtained full-stack and devops expertise as part of cross-functional and self-directed teams. • Tested applications using test and behavioural driven development.• Reduced development build times of our front-end monolith from 60 seconds to 1 second. • Maintained multiple kubernetes clusters as part of the devops team.• Scaled an entitlements system to 12x live traffic target, achieving an 8x performance gain in response times.• Added monitoring, alerting and instrumentation to services using Prometheus and Grafana.• Implemented relational databases for persistent storage using PostgreSQL.• Performed multi-variant testing of new features.• Created an agile monitoring tool that was used across the business using Jira’s REST API.• Co-developed architecture proposals for transactional emails and private messaging systems. • Collaborated with non-technical stakeholders in the development of new product features.• Reviewed code tests and drove technical interviews as part of the recruitment team.• Onboarded new hires into a given engineering team.



Space Budgie

• Co-Director

  • Mar 2013 - Aug 2016

  Space Budgie is a BAFTA winning independent games studio. With a focus on games that do more than solely entertain, our titles teach concepts and educate, tackling unexplored and difficult topics through the medium of games.Developed and published two commercial games on Steam: 9.03m and Glitchspace Space Budgie is a BAFTA winning independent games studio. With a focus on games that do more than solely entertain, our titles teach concepts and educate, tackling unexplored and difficult topics through the medium of games.Developed and published two commercial games on Steam: 9.03m and Glitchspace