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Vancouver, Bc, Ca

Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca

Moved to Vancouver from London

London, England, Gb

Member of the team running experiments with the aim of transitioning the product from a seller picks to a marketplace model- Built a containerized bookings service, using FastAPI and MySQL, with 94% test coverage, allowing rapid testing of marketplace strategies.- Reduced microservice response time by 80% by identifying and rewriting inefficient queries, and fixing memory leak.- Resolved critical incidents whilst on call, and championed enhanced ops processes to improve system visibility, and reduce the number of noisy alarms.

London, England, Gb

Member of the team responsible for emails. During this time, we were tasked with overhauling our email system to support translations, allowing the business to launch into France and Germany in April 2022.- Used event based architecture to consolidate PHP and Python code generating emails, allowing emails to be tested independently from the UI.- Wrote a script to transform our custom email templates into a handlebars compatible format, allowing them to be managed by non-developers using the same tool as our marketing emails.- Built a FastAPI service and associated Slackbot to integrate two third-party services, allowing non-developers to send emails off for translation, and import them once complete.- Defined a Python 2 upgrade process allowing multiple teams to incrementally upgrade our suite of >50 Python 2 processes, and replace end of life servers, with minimal disruption.- Built a CI/CD pipeline using GitHub actions, Ansible and AWS Session Manager to automate our Python deployments, resulting in faster, more frequent releases, with fewer failures.

London, England, Gb

Joined the marketplace services team, responsible for looking after a suite of backend services- Identified and fixed a long standing bug in our legacy seller acquisition process, resulting in a 7x increase in seller sign ups, whilst also significantly reducing the number of spam complaints generated by the process.- Migrated Airflow from a single EC2 instance to ECS, using Cloudformation to configure the architecture, allowing us to introduce additional worker nodes to scale the service horizontally, and meet increased demands- Set up AWS WAF, cutting the number of out of hours alarms caused by malicious traffic.

London, Gb

Lead the software engineering team of 5 developers, transforming requests and requirements from the rest of the business into tickets for the team to work on.- Lead the project to build an ESG reporting system, consisting of data ingestion tools and a configurable API, allowing content to be tailored for different clients and use cases. Completed the project within the tight 3 month schedule.- Created a Docker container, providing a consistent development experience for team members, and reducing the time taken to set up new development machines by several hours, simplifying the transition to remote working.- Added git hooks to improve code quality, increasing code coverage in our codebase by 15% in a year.

London, Gb

Worked on a Django project responsible for aggregating data and producing multilingual documents and websites for a variety of clients- Built a configurable multi-client funds API, and associated React app, allowing institutional investors to view fund offerings.- Identified the cause of recurring Redis failures, and in doing so, reduced Redis memory usage by over 80%.- Transitioned the application from Python 2 to Python 3, and from Django 1.6 to Django 2.0, with minimal disruption to the rest of the business

London, Gb

• Elected events officer by student body during July by-election.• Organised and publicised events to welcome incoming students to the college.• Supported other members of the Student Union throughout the term.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, In

• Internship providing on-plant experience and chance to solve real problems.• Managed time between an individual and group project.• Evaluated plant and simulation data during individual project to produce a recommendation to improve gas usage with a pay-back time of under a year.• Identified safety-critical information to produce engaging induction for site visitors and HGV drivers as part of group project.• Organised meetings with key stakeholders to achieve project goals.• Presented project findings to members of site leadership team.

• Planned event with a budget exceeding £250,000 and over 2000 guests.• Interviewed over 35 candidates and managed a committee of 20 people.• Presented ideas to college leadership to gain approval.• Responsible for ensuring compliance with Food Safety and Hygiene, Fire Safety and event insurance to meet Cambridge City Council regulatory requirements.

• Analysed past ticket sales data and developed new ticket sales structure, with tickets selling out in one week.• Managed email communications with guests and resolved any queries or issues.• Distributed tickets to 2000 guests.• Controlled entry of guests into ball, with all guests inside in under 90 minutes.

• Holiday position working with children aged between 4 and 14.• As group leader, resolved conflicts between children and co-ordinated activities.• Promoted to supervisor during summer of 2015.• Managed registration, liaised with parents and instructed group leaders to ensure camp was set-up and cleared up on time.• Camp grew from 40 children a day in October 2012 to 200 in summer 2015.

Rehovot, Hamerkaz, Il

• One of 81 students worldwide selected to attend month long programme.• Designed, built and conducted experiment to measure muon lifetime.• Results concurred with past experimental data.• Wrote project report and presented findings at the end of the programme.

Worked as a shop assistant for 9 months, restocking the shelves and pricing items within the shop. This role also required helping customers with any problems or queries they may have, as well as contacting suppliers in the event of problems with the incoming stock.

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Chemical Engineering

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