Summary
Engineering leader with 12+ years of hands-on technical experience, including 4 years
leading international teams, cultivating high-performance environments grounded in ownership and delivery.
Experience
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Built and delivered an automated
AI-driven
video processing platform for
Latest Thinking,
replacing a previously manual workflow for standardizing researcher-recorded videos.
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Deployed infrastructure on bare-metal servers and virtual machines to run
multiple
AI
models.
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Integrated
AI
APIs
for transcript analysis, automatically generating content,
metadata, abstracts, and categories.
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Scaled engineering team from 8 to over 40 across 9 countries; led 28 ICs before building
a management layer and mentoring juniors into high-performing
Ruby on Rails
engineers.
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Expanded into
Japan,
securing
Hankyu Corporation’s
first external tech partnership; grew platform from rail to aviation, launching a new vertical.
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Delivered product and engineering initiatives that increased
ARR by 100% in the
first year and 50% in the second, which contributed to winning the
King’s Award for Enterprise – Innovation.
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Introduced continuous delivery, feature flags, and ephemeral environments per PR across the main product.
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Led the engineering work behind major industry recognition, including
Apple Design Awards 2023 (Inclusivity Finalist)
and the
RIA Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Award 2024.
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Operated as a hands-on leader across feature delivery, architecture, incident
response, and security.
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Contributed to technical execution and delivery maturity supporting a £10M funding round.
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Co-founded and grew a small engineering team to deliver client projects and internal
tools across multiple domains.
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Built end-to-end automated
CI/CD
pipelines, improving delivery speed and reliability.
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Reduced operational costs by self-hosting internal applications instead of relying
on expensive vendors.
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Secured clients against ransomware and infrastructure threats, implementing
best practices for security.
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Created software IP and deployment baselines for rapid client project delivery.
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Designed recruitment processes and technical documentation, mentoring junior
developers to improve team output.
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Actively contributed to development, architecture, and feature delivery for clients.
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Developed features allowing borrowers to apply for multiple loans with the same
account, collaborating across teams to integrate a new loan scoring automation
system that processed over 60% of loans automatically.
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Migrated applications from
Rackspace
to
AWS
using
Docker
initially on
Mesos,
and later on
Kubernetes,
improving reliability and scalability.
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Developed API mocking tools for third-party integrations using
REST,
RabbitMQ,
Kafka,
and the
Pact
contract testing framework.
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Built
Grafana
dashboards to track software delivery performance using
DORA
metrics.
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Automated on-call schedules and payments using
Pagerduty.
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Partnered with the security team to enforce
AWS
security best practices.
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Built
CI/CD
tools and quality checks, improving pipeline efficiency and
software quality.
Tech Skills
Open Source
Engaged with and contributed to numerous
Open Source
communities related to projects that I use
personally and professionally. Notable mentions are:
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Maintained
Spacemacs
for a few years and submitted patches to
Emacs
and multiple
MELPA
packages
before moving to
Neovim.
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Helped maintain Ruby-related packages in
Arch Linux,
monitor forums for breakages, and report issues upstream.
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Created
Redmine
plugins, submitted patches to upstream
Redmine,
and fixed bugs in
Gitea.
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Submitted patches to
Ruby Gems
to fix bugs and improve functionality.
Hobbies
Cooking
Experimenting with steaks, sourdough, pizza, and fermented veggies; modified a fridge to
control temperature and humidity for
Charcuterie.
Gardening
Growing vegetables and herbs on an allotment, experimenting with plastic-free, all-natural
techniques, and pushing the taste and size of tomatoes far beyond supermarket norms.
Investing
Tracking companies in the stock market, carefully scrutinising quarterly reports, and
occasionally making bold bets.
Education