Experience

Engaige

• Netherlands
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder & CTO

  • May 2023 - Present



Valencia Codes

• Spain
• Software Development

• Co-Founder and Organizer

  • Jan 2022 - Present

  Co-founder and co-organizer of Valencia Codes, the biggest English-language technology community in Valencia, Spain. https://www.meetup.com/valencia-codes/ https://t.me/valenciacodes Co-founder and co-organizer of Valencia Codes, the biggest English-language technology community in Valencia, Spain. https://www.meetup.com/valencia-codes/ https://t.me/valenciacodes



QueryLayer

• Spain
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Jun 2022 - May 2023

  Python and React development on the QueryLayer app Python and React development on the QueryLayer app



Kaltu Payments

• Spain
• Financial Services

• Co-Founder & CTO

  • Jun 2021 - Jun 2022

  Full stack development of fintech product for marketplace payouts. Approach taken: - Built functional prototype for demoing to customers within 1 month - Fintech best practices (double-entry bookkeeping, idempotency) Technologies used: - Backend (Nest.js, TypeORM) - Frontend (React, Typescript) - Integrations with Stripe, PayPal, Wordpress, Shopify - Unit + E2E testing - Heroku - Deployment (CI/CD, Docker) Non-technical work: - Demos and customer interviews - Sourcing and negotiating with Open Banking providers - Hiring and onboarding developers and collaborators Show less



Club Qu

• London, England, United Kingdom

• Senior Full Stack Developer

  • Nov 2020 - May 2021

  Full stack development of micropayments system for VR nightclub. Greenfield project which included evaluating and choosing technologies, designing architecture, interacting with stakeholders, all backend and majority of frontend development, and devops. Technologies used: - Frontend (React, Typescript) - Backend (Nest.js, TypeORM) - Videoconferencing (WebRTC) - Unit + E2E testing - Stripe integration - AWS (API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, ECS, Fargate) - Deployment (Pulumi, Terraform, Docker) Show less



Hubtype

• Spain
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Conversational Interface Consultant

  • Jun 2020 - Sep 2020

  Hubtype is a provider of conversational apps. Rory assisted with conversational design and oversaw the release of a new customer support chatbot for printer company EPSON's UK & Ireland market. Hubtype is a provider of conversational apps. Rory assisted with conversational design and oversaw the release of a new customer support chatbot for printer company EPSON's UK & Ireland market.



Rollio AI

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Tech Lead

  • Sep 2018 - Aug 2020

  Rollio is an AI Sales Assistant that uses Speech-to-Text (STT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to provide more natural way for sales reps to interact with their CRM. Rory architected and developed the Rollio framework from scratch which included: - Designing and documenting all APIs (Swagger, Lucidchart) - Creating a custom state management solution (Typescript/Node.js, Redis, Postgres) - Overseeing development and creating testing framework for custom-built NLP module (Python Flask/Pytest) - Creating Rollio managed package in Salesforce including custom Apex classes (Java) - Creating a module to automatically keep customer-specific Speech-To-Text models in sync with Salesforce (Go) - Setting up all development environments and CI (Heroku CI, Docker) As Tech Lead, Rory is also responsible for all project management which includes: - Running sprint planning meetings and tracking work for a 100% remote development team with developers in different timezones (Jira, Notion, Github) - Instituting good working practices for a distributed team such as requiring developers to write an internal whitepaper before delivering a feature to make sure the requirements and goals were understood. Very important for a remote team to be able to collaborate on complicated tasks asynchronously when you can't all get around a whiteboard! (Notion) - Finding and hiring new developers, designing a repeatable onboarding process based on 30/60/90 day check-ins (Notion) Show less



Filament Syfter

• United Kingdom
• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Conversation Interfaces Lead

  • Oct 2016 - Sep 2018

  Filament is a London-based Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technologies consultancy. - Frontend development on ML-driven marketing platform (Angular 1.3) - Internal tagger tool for building ontologies (Java, Python, React) - Developed internal chatbot framework (Node.js) - Head of Conversational Interfaces using chatbot framework to deliver several client projects Filament is a London-based Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technologies consultancy. - Frontend development on ML-driven marketing platform (Angular 1.3) - Internal tagger tool for building ontologies (Java, Python, React) - Developed internal chatbot framework (Node.js) - Head of Conversational Interfaces using chatbot framework to deliver several client projects



Founders and Coders

• United Kingdom
• Technical and Vocational Training
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Developer

  • Jun 2016 - Oct 2016

  Intensive full-time, 16-week course in full-stack Javascript software development. At the end of course delivered freelance projects. Intensive full-time, 16-week course in full-stack Javascript software development. At the end of course delivered freelance projects.



Ricardo plc

• United Kingdom
• Environmental Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Consultant

  • Jan 2013 - Jun 2016

  Consultant at Ricardo Energy & Environment, the environmental division of Ricardo Group, a multi-national engineering consultancy. Major focus on statistical modelling using Visual Basic and Excel. Responsibilities included: - Business development through identifying and qualifying leads. - Preparing project proposals and commercial bidding. - Project management: managing internal budgets and subcontractors. - Technical delivery focusing on data analysis and process improvement. Projects included: - Sustainability evaluations on behalf of the Green Investment Bank. - Authored the official report on the 'one year on' impacts of the introduction of a carrier bag charge in Scotland. - Statistical analysis and co-authored report commissioned by the CIWM into the effects of the austerity measures on Local Authorities in the UK. http://tinyurl.com/q5ma2o5 - Statistical resource modelling for Heathrow Airport Limited. - Data compilation and quality checking for the UK's National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory (NAEI) - Waste flow and collection modelling for Local Authorities. - Delivering over 70 efficiency audits on energy, waste, waster and process improvement to businesses through the Resource Efficient Scotland programme. Show less



Ecometrica

• United Kingdom
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Intern Analyst

  • Oct 2012 - Nov 2012

  Intern analyst at multi-award winning sustainability software company. Worked on software product and performed internal data audit. Intern analyst at multi-award winning sustainability software company. Worked on software product and performed internal data audit.