- The RoomLead Engineer / Acting CTODIGITAL & ITApril 2021 - Today (3 years and 10 months)London, UK• Led delivery of new product instrumental to future of company• Successful soft-launch in USA and planned international rollout• Created and implemented hiring process used to run 30+ interviews and 5 hires• Established team processes that allowed for rapid delivery of features• Delivered most complex features like payment processing through Stripe and entitlements• Integrations with Auth0, Salesforce, Cloudinary, SendGrid etc
- HSBCConsultant Platform EngineerBANKING & INSURANCESeptember 2018 - April 2021 (2 years and 7 months)Old St, London, UK• Building advanced CI/CD pipelines to release versions of Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF)• Zero-downtime upgrades on estate of 60K+ containers• Managing multi-month migration project, including dashboards & KPI metrics• Pro-active code improvement e.g. 64% options parsing reduction across 70+ files• Customer support, and troubleshooting app issues including HSBC Mobile Banking apps
- Fidelity InvestmentsConsultant AWS Platform Engineer / Senior Software EngineerBANKING & INSURANCENovember 2017 - September 2018 (10 months)London, England, United Kingdom• Automating account creation process reducing time from 10-15 days to ~2 hours• Implementing security-critical log collation feature (AWS Kinesis, Lambda), to ensure allaccount activity was auditable via centralised logs• Building a “heartbeat” health monitoring service for key components• Mentoring junior developers in software development (and learning from them)
- Computer Science BSc (Hons)The University of Manchester2003• Achieved 1st Class • Awarded prize for Top Student in Year