Experience

Eva Health Technologies

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• DevOps Engineer

  • May 2021 - Present



Freelance

• Cambridge, Birmingham

• Portrait/event photographer

  • Mar 2018 - May 2021



RhythmOne

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technical Lead

  • May 2015 - Feb 2018

  Core upkeep and development of fetch, ingestion, transcoding, search stacks. Legacy technology investigation, maintenance and retirement. Data warehousing. System architecture and project planning. Core upkeep and development of fetch, ingestion, transcoding, search stacks. Legacy technology investigation, maintenance and retirement. Data warehousing. System architecture and project planning.



Blinkx

• Cambridge, United Kingdom

• Lead Technical Architect

  • May 2007 - May 2015

  Core database, ingestion workflow, search index design and implementation. Ingestion system. Ongoing overall responsibility for discovery, ingestion, transcoding and search index preparation. Search algorithm design. Systems integration. Occasional solo DBA responsibilities. Data warehousing. Data analysis, automated data mining, taxonomy generation, relevancy, user classification, related-item discovery. System architecture. Scaling and optimisation. Mergers and integrations. Monitoring and management interface design and implementation. Image analysis. Search and suggestion R&D. Voice recognition. Show less



HP Autonomy

• United Kingdom
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Developer

  • Aug 2004 - May 2007

  Algorithm design, implementation and analysis. Complete re-write and optimisation of CORE ingestion functionality. Then brought over to "blinkx" project for automated classification, automated ingestion, video, text and image search functionality. Algorithm design, implementation and analysis. Complete re-write and optimisation of CORE ingestion functionality. Then brought over to "blinkx" project for automated classification, automated ingestion, video, text and image search functionality.