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Edinburgh, Scotland, GB

New York, New York, US

New York, New York, US

London, London, GB

Ferly exists to radically transform society’s relationship with sex. How we think about it – and how we have it. We’re doing this by creating a space where every woman can spend time *really* getting to grips with what makes her tick. So she can understand and prioritise her own pleasure through the ultimate journey of self-discovery.

Shoreditch, London, GB

Seenit is a multiple award-winning startup, providing distributed and directed crowdsourcing of video and photography content to Enterprise clients, using mobile devices for collection and cloud services for storage, analysis, transcoding, and delivery. We provide a browser-based studio for managing footage and contributors, and creating edits. Our clients.

• Technical leadership for all product development, ensuring that systems are resilient, performant, and scalable, and using appropriate technologies that can be supported by the online operations and field support.
• Responsible for the design from the ground up of Picsolve's next generation global platform, including on-park, mobile, and web channels, in order to support the business vision.
• Designed the next generation platform to run in a hybrid cloud environment, allowing multiple layers of hardware and virtualised redundancy and resiliency, ensuring maximum operational uptime. This used Couchbase and.
• Designed the scalable RESTful API, backed by Couchbase and implemented in Scala, to be used by all internal and external consumers including EPOS and iOS/Android applications. This also included cloud automation, in.
• Created strategic partnerships with 3rd parties for data sharing and analysis.
• Ensured DevOps principles were adhered to in order to ensure production deliverables by the software team were tested, fit for purpose, secure, stable, and scalable, as well as allowing deployment flexibility of.

London, GB

• Part of the International Digital Group, I was responsible for leading infrastructure and software architecture, including the international Higher Education platforms, translating product teams’ requirements to.
• Designing the architecture for a global content delivery mechanism using RabbitMQ and global cloud infrastructure
• Defining and co-developing the orchestration and automation of infrastructure provisioning using RightScale, Chef, hybrid clouds (AWS, DataPipe), and implementing a ‘blue/green stack’ deployment methodology
• Migration of legacy platforms to a horizontally auto-scaling cloud infrastructure to reduce datacenter costs
• Defined bottom-up project scope and budget projections for software and infrastructure deliverables for the group’s 2012 project pipeline
• Helped define job descriptions, led technical interviews and inducted new recruits for the group’s 2012 rapid headcount expansion

London, England, GB

• ShipServ helps marine and offshore buyers to find the best suppliers easily, trade efficiently and build trusted relationships.I was initially hired to manage the design and development of the next phase of online.
• Responsible for technical strategy, as the company had no prior experience developing PHP applications. Worked with Director of IT Operations to formulate structure and rollout of necessary hardware and virtualisation.
• Responsible for rollout of completely new product sets, using technologies unfamiliar within the then company mindset
• Worked closely with SVP of Product Management to formulate product strategies, technical solutions, and long-term product and technical roadmaps. This included ranking algorithms for our internal search-engine based on.
• Responsible for Product Management after SVP of Product Management left. Managed product discovery, viability, and usability. Part of the company’s Product Strategy Group, working with all senior management to test.
• Responsible for hiring of two additional technical architects, frontend and backend developers

Started with development of Youniverse.com - a social networking site based around Imagini's VisualDNA quizzes. Involved in concept development, resource pipelining, design, development and optimisation of databases and code for high-traffic loads, managing the Youniverse.com development team, as well as other strategies within Imagini.Promoted to.

Camden, London, GB

Development of large-scale, bespoke web applications for high-profile clients using the latest “Web 2.0” technologies. Involved in the complete product life-cycle, including requirements capture and documentation, functional specifications, analysis of client business needs, database development, design and implementation, as well as ongoing development.

Portsmouth, NH, US

Development of application specific customisation for clients, involving cheque security and customisation to APACS standards for Bottomline’s cheque outsourcing product: CheckPay.

Bsc With Hons, Computer Science And Cybernetics

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