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San Digital is a high energy software consultancy, focussed on value delivery, software quality and quick iterations. We're fixed price and work very closely with you before the start of the project to define what you need. And then we build it!I was one of the first hired engineers here and I've done lots of development, led projects, met with customers and designed systems.San are currently doing a lot in the energy sector but we are domain and technology agnostic.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

BJSS is an agile-centric software consultancy who have a number of high-profile clients. I worked here as a software consultant/principal engineer and led some of our software projects. I've been mostly developing, but also involved in bids, architecture, analysis and people management at all stages of projects – bidding, pre-sales, workshops, discovery and delivery. I've also been a line manager to help with our developer's professional development. I’ve been helping shape the Nottingham, Birmingham, Lisbon offices and graduate academies to build our future teams by conducting competency-based interviews.A lot of my consulting has been helping organisations realise their digital transformation journeys and move to the cloud (AWS/Azure) or optimising how it is used in the business.PROJECTSGovernment ProjectsTech lead to create a new web frontend to enable government backed businesses to manage their accounts and bookings. Working to GDS guidelines. (Javascript/AWS).Technical lead for high-profile government project to digitally transform a life defining process. Working to GDS guidelines, and the project won awards. (Ionic/Typescript/AWS)Hack 24Represented the company at Hack24 in a team of four, taking first prize in the Microsoft Azure category for creative use of cognitive services. Won an XBox.ChatbotsCreated an internal serverless chatbot framework and took this to a client to remove the burden from call centre agents. (AWS/Javascript/Python/AI)Currency ExchangeTech lead to transform a monolith into distributed microservices (C#/Service Fabric)FinanceData engineer and platform for big data processing (Python/PySpark/Azure)Data engineer and platform for data processing (Python/Pandas/AWS)ConsultingAdvised a law firm on the architecture of a patent renewal system, then led the development on thisAdvised a manufacturing company with their current software landscape and helped define a future roadmap with actionable steps

As tech lead at Romax InSight I oversaw and delivered the technical handover and knowledge share during an acquisition by Castrol.I led a team of 3 developers and developed a wind turbine monitoring system which was used globally. This was written in Python with a frontend in javascript. When I became tech lead I transitioned a legacy frontend to Angular and created an architecture to gradually break a monolith system into distributed microservices. I was able to reimagine the delivery process and bring in a more agile way of working, taking the product from a 6-9 monthly release cycle to a more responsive Kanban model and enabling a weekly release if the business required.

I worked here as a developer on a product called CAMIO, a C++ CAD product whichprogrammed and drove robotic arms. I rebuilt the data model and moved the datastore to SQL Server and built some independent data management tools in C#. Iworked with engineers to help produce complex troubleshooting documents. Iintroduced Boost libraries to the team and brought in automated unit testing for critical features.

DriveSentry was a data protection startup and I was here at the beginning until thecompany closed. The product was a mix of C++ and C# and had some very complexinteractions with the inner workings of Windows OS. The product eventually made itsway into PC World and the cover of the magazine PC Advisor.

As a junior dev, I built a new web frontend to administer online software activation.This was a PHP application with C++ backends