Delivery-focussed senior software engineer and team lead always looking for an interesting challenge. Professional experience in non-trivial Python, JS, Clojure(script) and Ruby mobile and web apps, as well as extensive platform experience from bare metal to serverless. Experienced data engineer (graph and streaming) also comfortable rapid-prototyping in startup and enterprise contexts. Well-developed leadership and mentoring behaviours, comfortable facing into senior stakeholders or clients. Have spoken at Build IT Right Conf, CodeCraft, LDN Clojure and co-organise Lambda Lounge MCR.
Joined a team working on a real-time messaging platform with a cross-platform mobile and desktop application, written using Clojure(script).
Key work:
- Delivered several large features, including re-architecting the front end for performance and maintainability
- Pushed for disciplined CI practices and stabilised an integration test suite
- Re-wrote the migration driver used for Cassandra
- Worked with colleagues to document processes and instituted a playbook
- Helped move to a system of daily standups and walking a board to describe work-in-progress
- Started a documentation drive, going from circa five lines of docs to a full wiki
- Automated large chunks of the dev setup using scripts and Docker - onboarding time was reduced to a single day
- Mentored a colleague and an apprentice
Working on the Digital Data Services and award-winning Guardian & Shifts teams for one of the UK's largest retailers. Also an engineering line manager and mentor. Key projects involved laying the groundwork for group-level data transformation by proving tech, and architecting, leading and delivering the initial build of a multi-tenant serverless data platform.
Key work:
- Stream data platform using Lambda, Kinesis, Dynamo, ECS (JS/Python)
- GraphQL API using Azure functions (Serverless/Node.js)
- Tech lead on Co-op's first modern data project (Spark/Scala/Python)
- Proof-of-concept task system using prototypically-inherited DAGs (Clojure)
- Proposed and led a discovery into stream processing (Apache Kafka/Clojure)
- Tech and data architecture advocacy, with materials used to present to exec
- Training: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Databricks (Apache Spark) 301
Self-taught applied electronics and digital signal processing with Spin Assembly language and bootstrapped a guitar effects side-business. Based on lean startup methodology and an MVP, generated more than £10k of business on a marketing budget of zero. Open-sourced a preamp circuit design.
Working on various projects as a member of an industry leading graph data consultancy team, from greenfield web applications using Ruby/Rails and Clojure(script) to devops using Docker, Ansible, AWS, Travis, and ETL into linked RDF data. Projects involved a combination of Rails, Javascript and Clojure, with extensive responsibility for ops and maintenance.
Key projects:
- A high visibility greenfield data register (Clojure)
- Near real-time processing of sensor data from New Zealand (Clojure/Ruby)
- A Docker-based infrastructure for an 11+ service deployment
- A bootstrapping, deployment and disaster-recovery setup using Ansible
- Travis and Jenkins CI setups
- Features for the core Swirrl product, a large Rails engine (Ruby)
- A general-case choropleth map plugin for geographic data (Ruby/JS)
- A 'shopping cart' of data cube slices and geographic data (JS SPA)
- A green-field graph visualisation tool for work networks (Ruby/JS)
- API and search apps using Rails, Clojure, Clojurescript and re-frame
- A number ETL and data pipeline projects (Clojure)
A complete overhaul of the front-end of a large Rails app, with responsibility for UX testing as well. Implemented then maintained a test suite, re-wrote core features and improved interactivity with JS. Also responsible for a new brand identity, logo, typefaces, style guide and mentoring an entry-level developer.
Developed a number of websites, single-page and more complex Rails web applications using a responsive, mobile-first approach.
Project managed website design and build, strategy and implementation of digital marketing campaigns and SEO. Understood client needs and delivered projects to meet those, as well as managing stakeholders during the process.
Write columns for Prog and Total Guitar. Contribute new music features, reviews, photography and main features.
Co-founded a label and manage bands and co-ordinate press. Have had bands featured in national/international press and built them up to international touring.
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CMU Royalties and Copyright (July 2011)
Futureworks Film Editing with Final Cut Pro (Sept 2012)
Udacity CS101 Introduction to Computer Science (Feb 2013)
MadLab Intro to Arduino and Physical Computing (Apr 2013)
Udacity CS252 Programming Languages (Mar 2013, Dec 2014)
Hot Bed Press Typesetting for Designers (Sept 2013)
Hot Bed Press Photo Screen Printing (Oct 2013)
Coursera Introduction to Programming for Musicians and Digital Artists (Nov 2013-Jan 2014)
Udacity The Design of Everyday Things (Dec 2013)