Dee Kitchen Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

Working within Grafana to provide open source, SaaS, and on-prem offerings of massively scalable telemetry databases for observability. The underlying hosted data services use the OSS databases; Mimir (for metrics), Loki (for logs), Tempo (for Traces), Pyroscope (for Profiling) as well as Prometheus and OTLP maintainers. The department I lead is +100 engineers in ~28 countries (as of mid 2023).

London, United Kingdom

Engineering and management for the Cloudflare firewall including the WAF, DDoS, and customer configured firewall via a Wireshark Display Filter syntax (Firewall Rules).Managed the Firewall, WAF and UI teams, with peak direct reports being 12 and average being 8.Currently managing the team for DDoS, protection which covers every customer facing feature that Cloudflare provides as well as protecting Cloudflare infrastructure.

London, United Kingdom

Founder and CTO of a technical startup company focused on building a PaaS solution for discussion-based communities. Led product, dev, marketing and sales whilst managing the technical direction and implementation. In under 2 years we built a new product and grew to 50k+ passionate users.

London, United Kingdom

Providing architectural review of the existing solution as well as support as new work is transitioned to the Go language.This position was a per-day, as necessary contract and not a contiguous piece of work.

London, United Kingdom

Owner and operator of a number of discussion forums on topics such as cycling and music.Role requires full-stack development, systems administration and community management.

London, United Kingdom

Global Architect leading a research and development lab to discover new opportunities for the company and to demonstrate how to exploit these. Hired and managed a large team, launched several new products including mobile applications and big data applications. Tech lead for 20 engineers.

London, United Kingdom

Technical Architect leading a team of developers to produce a set of solutions across retail, finance and manufacturing verticals to solve client specific problems. Deeply involved in defining and executing a fullSDLC and delivering large projects to clients ahead of schedule and under budget. Managed 6 people, tech lead for the company.Worked closely with Microsoft through a DAC (Developer Advisory Council) position.Key clients include Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, HSBC, Bank of Scotland, Credit Suisse, Criminal Justice IT, Home Office.

London, United Kingdom

Senior Developer delivering a video CMS system for Football and sports sites in the UK. Produced the first successful subscription video site on the web, and built all applicable systems for this.

London, United Kingdom

Senior Developer with sole responsibility for creating and delivering the consumer portal and CMS. Core developer for the BTinternet consumer portal.

Assisted in the creation of their community strategy and supported the deliver of their online forums.

London, United Kingdom

Established their online presence, built a full ecommerce site, won a Brit Award with Belle & Sebastian. Nominations for Best Music Website from music press within the UK and globally. Built the stock management, financial reporting, online shop and mail order business.