Experience

Initforthe

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

• Senior Software Engineer

  • May 2021 - Present



Runic Media Ltd

• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Jan 2019 - Present

  Software contracting and bespoke development services. Software contracting and bespoke development services.



Runeworks Limited

• United Kingdom
• Furniture and Home Furnishings Manufacturing

• Director / Maker / Joiner

  • Apr 2019 - Present

  Bespoke joinery, and furniture making company still in the product development stages but open to commissions. We're also dealing in hardware production and other crafting/DIY related products. This is one of my many side-projects, it encompasses my passion for making things, and provides a good break from the computer. Bespoke joinery, and furniture making company still in the product development stages but open to commissions. We're also dealing in hardware production and other crafting/DIY related products. This is one of my many side-projects, it encompasses my passion for making things, and provides a good break from the computer.



Aurius Style Ltd.

• Retail

• Director / Product Designer

  • Jan 2020 - Present

  Aurius is a retail brand, and currently also a stockist/distributor. Our work here is giving me the opportunity to explore the workings of the retail industry, as well as to design for mass production. Aurius is a retail brand, and currently also a stockist/distributor. Our work here is giving me the opportunity to explore the workings of the retail industry, as well as to design for mass production.



Reel Tech Gaming Ltd.

• United Kingdom
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director / CTO / Software Engineer

  • Dec 2012 - Mar 2021

  As a part of the Full Force Gaming Group we at Reel Tech Gaming focused on the development of a bespoke online gaming platform, marketing, and promotional tools. We primarily developed the original platform in Ruby involving various tools such as: • Rails • Sinatra • Grape • Rspec • Cucumber • Redis As we moved more toward microservices and cloud based infrastructure we started to incorporate tools like Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes for provisioning, and Apache Kafka for certain event driven tasks. In general the changes we were making made us better able to utilise the wealth of available software languages to increase performance and cut down on maintenance overheads by selecting languages more suitable for specific tasks (some of which included Crystal, and Python). Over the last year we've been working towards incorporating additional software into the stack, migrating customer databases, as well as redeveloping our frontend software to use a headless CMS and single-page applications developed in React to create an overall faster and more interactive user experience.



Full Force Gaming Group

• Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

  • Jul 2012 - Mar 2021

  As CTO for the Full Force Gaming Group, my primary goal was the development, advancement, and smooth operation of the group's bespoke gaming platform. Migrating legacy brands to the new platform, integrating additional services, as well as developing and launching new brands. Whilst expanding the team and furthering the interests of the group, my focus was always quality - introducing agile practices, and pushing for reliable results through use of TDD/BDD, Continuous Integration, and as we reached greater confidence in our stability Continuous Deployment. Over the years we built up a number of brands on our gaming platform such as: • Fruits4Real • Omni Slots • Grand Casino • Whamoo Aside from the obvious creation of the frontend casinos this involved building our own financial systems for managing player funds, various marketing and reporting tools, and a great number of integrations with 3rd party service providers for services such as: • Games • Payments • ID Verification • CRM • BI / Reporting • Marketing / Analytics as well as working with different regional authorities to ensure the proper and legal operation of our casinos (such as the MGA / Maltese Gaming Authority, and the Hungarian Government)



Course Crunch Ltd.

• E-Learning Providers

• Director / Software Engineer

  • May 2014 - Sep 2015

  This was a side-project. It was a learning platform established with the intention of allowing teachers of all kinds to deliver their content online to a much wider audience without them having to worry about the technical side of things. Teachers provide content, upload subtitles, add flashcards, generally manage their content and set their subscription plans and they're ready to go on their own branded online learning platform. I'm was primarily working on delivering the end product, and managing the server infrastructure - the service integrates a number of technologies for payment processing and video transcoding, as well as incorporating it's own private cloud storage system for content delivery, backed by an AWS/S3 backup.



Art of Source Ltd.

• Software Development

• Director / Software Engineer

  • Feb 2010 - Dec 2013

  Software startup, primarily taking on development projects for clients of various sizes. We worked largely with Ruby on Rails. Software startup, primarily taking on development projects for clients of various sizes. We worked largely with Ruby on Rails.



Dial Marketing Services Ltd.

• Cyprus
• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Jul 2011 - Jun 2012

  During my time at Dial Marketing I have worked on a number of Ruby based products, I have: • Built the new gaming platform and corporate websites on Sinatra to replace the legacy PHP versions • Created a new HTML/Ruby based game interface to begin the phasing out of the flash based infrastructure. • Built a new, integrated helpdesk system for customer and fraud management. • Create graphic/promotional material for product promotions. The role has involved working as part of a small team to tight deadlines and with a number of technologies to achieve set goals.



White Space Central Ltd

• United Kingdom
• Design
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Web Developer

  • Jun 2010 - Jun 2011

  At Whitespace I was working on a number of Ruby on Rails based projects large and small, some solo and some in small teams. I have also been making efforts to introduce Behavioural Driven Development into the company and generally trying to improve process wherever possible (time permitting). Clients I have been working with include: • Discovery • Channel 4 / 4Music • Middlesex University • Huddersfield University • NorthgateArinso • Andy Thornton Ltd. At Whitespace I was working on a number of Ruby on Rails based projects large and small, some solo and some in small teams. I have also been making efforts to introduce Behavioural Driven Development into the company and generally trying to improve process wherever possible (time permitting). Clients I have been working with include: • Discovery • Channel 4 / 4Music • Middlesex University • Huddersfield University • NorthgateArinso • Andy Thornton Ltd.



G2G3 Digital, part of Capita plc

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

• Web Developer

  • Jun 2009 - May 2010

  Web application development mostly in Ruby on Rails using Cucumber(+Selenium) and Rspec to drive development.The majority of my time so far has been spent delivering a large Ruby on Rails application as a part of a small team using BDD and the Scrum framework for management and incremental delivery.Additional work has included: • JavaScript/AJAX on various projects (some with jQuery and some without the aid of a library). • PHP work mostly centered around SugarCRM. • More QA work than a developer should ever be exposed to; mostly manual testing and story/step writing.

• Junior Web Developer

  • Jul 2007 - Jun 2009

  Web application development, mostly working as a part of a team to deliver bespoke software to clients or maintaining and updating existing applications.Core technologies I worked with include: • Ruby on Rails • Rspec / Storyrunner • PHP • JavaScript/AJAX • MySQL