Summary
Staff Engineer experienced in improving throughput and reliability in high-volume systems. My background includes technically leading teams and spearheading development on full-stack features that deliver significant impact. I am adept at collaborating with stakeholders to transform business requirements into robust, scalable engineering solutions.
Employment Details
Beamery, Staff Engineer, September 2023 - Present
- Technically led the Communications and Events team, managing the annual sending of over 64 million emails in the US
- Improved throughput and reliability through the adoption of micro-services and Kafka
- Added SMS capabilities to Campaigns, improved Events and created Meeting Scheduling products as technical lead while remaining actively involved
- Collaborated with Product, Design, and other stakeholders to maintain high technical standards in project delivery
Rebellion Defense, Senior Software Engineer, April 2023 - August 2023
- Lead on a number of full stack features for the Nova product
- Part of the smallest and highest outputting engineering team on the Nova product.
- The team disbanded after the company decided to withdraw from the UK, hence short tenure.
Just Insure, Lead Backend Engineer, 2019 - April 2023
- Architectural design and development from initial product launch through to growth including several funding rounds and recent Series A.
- Hiring, mentoring and implementing best practices within the team.
- Working closely with the Head of Software Engineering to define Product and Engineering ways of working.
- Collaborating with the Policy Services, Finance, Data Science and Marketing teams as well as the CEO and COO directly.
DAZN, Senior Software Engineer, 2018 - 2019
- Architecture, development, code reviews, testing, and on-call support of systems as well as performing technical interviews and mentoring.
- Worked and learned alongside well-known leaders in the software industry at the cutting edge of Software Engineering.
Bamboo Auctions, CTO & Co-Founder, 2015 - 2018
- Co-founder responsible for moving the technology from prototype to production and preparation for growth.
- Fully involved in all aspects of the company, working closely with fellow co-founder and CEO around the business strategy, raising funds, sales and board meetings.
- Recruited, mentored and performance-managed technical team members.
- Fully hands-on involved in all areas of development and technical decision-making.
- Swiftly created new product prototypes, testing market fit, alongside continued expansion and maintenance of the core auction product.
Pinewood Solutions, Freelance Software Engineer 2013 - 2015
- Penelope Research: Working closely with the founder to rapidly prototype several products related to increasing value and reducing waste in scientific research.
- Isotrak: Scrum Master and Software Engineer focussing on new feature delivery. Allowed the company to expand into the US and Australia.
- EVORA Global: Sole developer of backend real estate ESG system. Supported CTO and front-end developers.
Early Career Experience
- Jemmac Software, Senior Software Engineer, 2006 - 2013
- Cerulean, Senior Software Engineer, 2003 - 2006
- Computair, Software Engineer, 2000 - 2003
- BAE Systems, Software Engineer, 2000; Trainee Software Engineer, 1996 - 2000
Education
University of Kent, 1996 - 2000
- B.Sc (Hons) Software Engineering 2(ii)
Oakwood Park Grammar School, Kent, 1991 - 1996
- Computing, A-Level
- Business Studies, A-Level
- Maths, A-Level
- Maths, A/O level
- Maths, GCSE
- English Language, GCSE
- English Literature, GCSE
- Science (Double Award), GCSE
- German, GCSE
- History, GCSE
- Religious Studies, GCSE
- Art & Design, GCSE