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London, England, Gb

London, England, Gb

Financial institutions — from fintechs and crypto platforms, to banks and credit unions — use our API to offer their customers fully regulated banking infrastructure and real-time clearing access. That way the business can grow on your own terms, and stay ahead — at speed.

London, England, Gb

London, England, Gb

London, Gb

- Responsible for the Engineering and Product function, ensuring reliability and security are top of mind- Responsible for data security, IT security and compliance- Fixed onboarding pipeline problem for designers, increasing from 100 to 175 brands onboarded in 6 months- Defined customer needs for key personas, and increasing conversion- Migration to AWS from Heroku for hosting- Added data pipeline to help measure and improve key business metrics- Involved in investment sourcing- Established architectural approach for future scaling- Defined and implemented hiring plan for efficient engineering team of 5- Ensured tight budget control across the business for SaaS tooling

London, England, Gb

- Definition of 3rd party integration architecture to ensure scalability- Analysis of Ops tooling landscape across the business- Facilitation of workshops to ensure alignment

London, London, Gb

London, London, Gb

- Managed furlough and budgeting during extensive business disruption (UK Gym closures)- Responsible for the Engineering function at Hussle, and scaling the team across PHP, React, NodeJS and React Native roles- Responsible for data security, IT security and compliance- Addressed frustrations from other business functions around engineering prioritisation and velocity- Worked with outsourced engineering function in Ukraine, and eventually brought in-house, via redesigned hiring process- Built plan for how to move engineering to a “business enablement” role, becoming a key part of the business and working alongside other functions- Worked with the rest of the SMT on business strategy, evaluating 3rd party suppliers, and due diligence for funding round- Audited and set higher security and scalability standards

London, England, Gb

I was responsible for day-to-day engineering team happiness, recruitment, technical guidance and bothering people on Slack with gifs. Grew the Engineering team from 9 to 32 people over 16 months, which I designed the process for, along with engineering processes to enable effective and rapid delivery.

London, England, Gb

Amsterdam, North Holland, Nl

Responsible for search globally within Just Eat's Consumer Product Development department.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Nl

Manage a cross-functional team of 11 people (a mix of engineers and product/ux) to focus on achieving a particular OKR, engaging with stakeholders across the business and at all levels, and justifying business decisions/success metrics.Lead work to change restaurant searching to more sophisticated, more accurate distance-based polygon searching, backed by Elasticsearch. Also worked to increase level of self service by restaurants, through a mix of operations-focus changes and B2B product research, leading to massively increased restaurant engagement.Ensured that all work coming into the team was appropriately data-based and MVT backedInvolved in a huge amount of recruitment, from graduate scheme hiring to short term contractor assessment days. Have managed 2 separate contract teams on top of existing permanent team.Organise and run quarterly Hackathons for the entire development team across 3 sites (London, Bristol, Kiev), including organising ideas sessions, presentations and prizes.Lead the push for UK/International search platform merging

Amsterdam, North Holland, Nl

Manage a team of 4 developers, ensuring that they are aware of priorities and engaged fully throughout the process to become as invested in what they write as possible (as they are on-call for what they write, “support what you ship”).Successfully integrated the business stakeholders into the team to aid collaboration (UX, Business Analysts, product stakeholders, end users), whilst ensuring the work we do aligns with the company-specified OKRs.Worked to replace the existing JUST EAT method of creating restaurants with a fully process mapped application, to ensure we design systems that users want, not ones we assume they need. The applications use ASP.NET MVC, Windows services and AngularJS, with SQS/SNS used to keep loosely coupled with the JUST EAT internal APIs. Fully integrated with Zendesk for task management and Google Drive for document storage.Ensured the team set the standard in the department with a pseudo-continuous deployment strategy, using teamcity and custom-written deployment libraries, to push to AWS, update Jiras and publish hipchat messages automatically.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Nl

Ensured the team had the correct alerts/monitoring setup, so we know of issues before users do. Charts and graphs were added to a team TV to be monitored and infrastructure changed accordingly.Introduced peak load testing to help identify issues in applications early, and helped write a throttling strategy for SQS messaging after identifying this was the cause of performance degradation.Took time to host design sessions soon after arriving to help a struggling project find it’s feet and become a rock solid part of the JUST EAT operations toolset.Migrated a 600GB+ custom document storage application to Google Drive using custom written apps based around their SDK, including permissions and ensuring document history was kept.

London, Gb

Creating, maintaining and guiding department technology strategy, coding standards and empowering developers to own and take responsibility for the code they write and the platform they maintain.Facilitated the creation of the TJG Tech Radar by the technical team, which details tools, technologies and practises that we wanted to ensure we adopt, trial, asses or depreciate.Improved the existing interview test, converting to MVC and changing the stories to improve the range of skills assessed.As a member of the management team I dealt with judging the needs for salary changes, departmental issues which may put projects at risk and helped with high-level initial sizing for long-term release planning.

London, Gb

Team-lead for project to replace existing legacy eCommerce platform with integration with a Venda-based 3rd party system, increasing eCommerce revenue 40%.Assisted with a large number of tasks to facilitate the move from virtual servers in a physical data centre to Amazon cloud hosting. This allowed for consolidation of servers, efficiency savings and more intelligent scaling up and out.After identifying that the build/release process was a common cause for delay in releasing value, and developer frustration, implemented a new delivery pipeline with TeamCity handing the CI element, and OctopusDeploy deploying to the multiple server environments, plus running automated smoke tests. Increased delivery efficiency by 20%.Departmental resource for knowledge of TJG systems, and advice on technical design decisions.

London, Gb

Senior developer responsibilities, plus managing of 4 line reports, performing developer reviews and collecting feedback to allow for PDPs to be created for developer growth.

London, Gb

Help to guide technical solutions taking the live environment into account, lead design sessions and encourage TDD

London, Gb

Maintenance and development of existing .NET 2/3.5 application stack, utilising distributed source control systems, continuous integration and TDD.

Maidenhead, Berkshire, Gb

Responsible for the maintenance and improvement of an e-commerce website, selling in-house translation software solutions and an internal project/employee management system.

2-2, Software Engineering

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