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London, Gb

Producing a refined AWS based platform for strategic quant dev and portfolio manager projects.- Reduced the onboarding time for new internal customers to onboard to the AWS platform from months to hours with repeatable patterns.- Re-designed CICD pipelines to provide reusability and reduce internal customer confusion.- Provided recommendations on how departments could collaborate in more effective ways and implemented some of those changes, for example to inner source more.- Simplified the maintenance of several systems by removing unnecessary complexity and in cases decommissioning entirely.

Tortola, Bvi, Vg

Leading the Developer Experience Tribe to improve developers’ day to day, reduce cognitive load and decrease feedback loop time.- Proposed and set up DevEx Tribe, built a roadmap of DevEx projects using feedback from across dev teams.- Tribe lead of 20 engineers with skills across platform and backend engineering, spread across Hong Kong, Singapore, Romania, Poland, Spain, Netherlands and UK.- Hands-on AWS work to reduce manual effort across 45 accounts via the introduction of AWS Organization concepts such as SSO, StackSet and SCPs.- Saved 10% of the AWS bill by introducing ProsperOps.- Massively reduced potential attack surface of GCP estate by removing 35% of it.- Reduced developer cognitive load by migrating use cases of 3 major tools to other pre-existing ones.- Conducted technical, agile and people management interviews for backend and platform engineers with 5 successful hires.

Tortola, Bvi, Vg

- Hands-on Ruby on Rails to unblock Password Manager launch with authn/z changes alongside 3 other devs while uplifting test coverage.

Hong Kong, Hk

Leading a team of engineers with skills across platform engineering, DevOps, infrastructure and SRE to create a best in class, cloud first, virtual bank in Hong Kong.- Launched products to market from the ground up in 1.5 years.- Tribe lead of 45 engineers, both full time and from key partners, spread across Hong Kong, Poland, S​lovakia, L​ondon and Vietnam.- Manage core infrastructure and banking platforms through to production.- Delivery of strategy, architectural designs, process improvements.- Predominantly AWS based architecture with a small hybrid network.- Delivered a large portion of the security controls required by regulators.- Daily management of many vendors critical to the operation of the bank.- Passed multiple independent and shareholder audits required for launch.

Hong Kong, Hk

Central, Hk

Instigating changes towards AWS, continuous delivery and API-first methodologies. Driving the team to adopt best practice across platforms and tooling. Daily hands on work to create features both for internal platforms and external products. Running Kubernetes clusters on AWS. Active contributor to open source solutions.- Led project to create a system to audit company blockchain transactions.- Delivered all of our initial Kubernetes stack and continuous delivery pipelines including automated deployment of feature branches.- Defined best practice for Engineering including APIs and continuous delivery.- Shipped a payment provider plugin system and plugins using AWS Lambda.- Improve team coordination via roadmaps and continuous process improvement.- Recommendations to Product team such as changes to the MVP.- Help define the team structure and ownership principles.Technologies include AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Go, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, RESTful, RSpec, Mocha, Chai, Runscope, Postgres, Redis, Aerospike, Codeship, GitHub, JIRA, Confluence.AWS includes EC2, Lambda, Route 53, VPC, ELB, CloudFront, S3, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, RDS, CloudFormation, IAM, API Gateway, SES, SQS.

Central, Hk

Technologies include AWS, Heroku, Docker, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Go, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, JSON, RESTful, RSpec, Mocha, Chai, Runscope, Postgres, Redis, Aerospike, Codeship, GitHub, Pivotal Tracker, Confluence.AWS includes EC2, Lambda, Route 53, VPC, ELB, CloudFront, S3, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, RDS, CloudFormation, IAM, ECS, API Gateway, SES, SQS.

A music platform on a global scale with partners including Sony, Samsung, BSkyB, and SiriusXM. Evolving the platform to be loosely coupled and tightly aligned architecture. Represented the Platform to the rest of the company, drove internal SLAs and software quality levels. Tight coordination with our partner managers and a strong insight into the business goals. Increased utilisation of SaaS products to increase focus on company value-add for our customers. Lead of 14 engineers.Technologies include AWS, Java, Node.js, Finagle, RESTful, Oracle, Cassandra, GitHub, JIRA, Confluence.

Took over internal Engineering lead role for Sony’s Music Unlimited service including all internal Sony client development, representing Sony to the Omnifone platform, working on portions of the server development and discussing requirements with Sony. Strong links to Omnifone Engineering and Product team in addition to Sony Product, Technology and Management teams required on a daily basis to successfully deliver. Technologies include AWS, Java, Node.js, Finagle, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, GWT, Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Drupal, Alfresco, Qt, XML, JSON, RESTful, OAuth, JUnit, TestNG, EasyMock, Mockito, EMMA, Sonar, JBoss, Tomcat, Oracle, Cassandra, Maven, Jenkins, BoxGrinder, SVN, GitHub, JIRA, Confluence.

Technical lead for the web client portion of Sony’s Music Unlimited streaming music product. Delivered the entire project end to end from the ground up including technology choices, architectural design, full stack implementation, deployment and automated testing. Additionally, managed the team providing the Music Unlimited client for home audio devices.

Atypical developer role working on MusicStation, a music streaming and download service on mobile and desktop that was ahead of its time. Technical lead for several projects, coordination with external and internal teams along with management of small teams. Partners included Telenor, 3 HK, LG, Vodafone, Sony Ericsson, Swisscom, Singtel, Orange, T-Mobile, Vivo, Telcel, M1 and BSkyB.

At a time when J2ME handsets were wildly fragmented in everything from hardware performance through to JVM implementation subtleties, Omnifone developed a device adaptive architecture used to automatically customise their software to the market’s handsets.

Madrid, Es

6 month placement to check the feasibility of a PDA web interface and prototype a suitable set of features for presentation to upper management.

Meng (First-Class Honours), Computing

Gce S-Level, Gce A-Levels, Gcses, Computing, Mathematics, Physics