C++ Software Engineering Leader with proven experience of building reliable, high-performance distributed systems. Fluently combines delivering effective technology, valuable products and accelerating people development.Currently leading a team that owns a real-time middleware platform powering a variety of mission-critical applications in Bloomberg's Trading & Analytics group. Recent work has focused on levelling up engineering effectiveness across the wider group and setting out technical strategy, and has included: designing career development resources used by managers across the organisation, founding an internal community of engineers with SRE focus and acting as a guiding stakeholder, and migrating an in-production trading analytics platform to a new technology stack.