We're on a mission to scale agroforestry, a method of farming that combines trees and shrubs with crops or livestock. Benefits include healthier soil, higher yields, reduced carbon and increased biodiversity, creating a more resilient food system in the face of climate change impacts.

The Zinc Venture Builder is a full time, 12 month platform that exists to build brand new, commercial, mission-driven companies that tackle the biggest social challenges. This venture builder's mission is focussed on eliminating environmental threats to our health and will see me build a business to tackle some of these problems at scale.

Building a web3 pet-focussed video-sharing social network. Leading a team of engineers to build, launch and scale the platform.

Lead engineer responsible for building and maintaining back end and front end solutions and infrastructure for an AI-focussed startup for the construction industry. Designed and implemented a number of industry-leading third party integrations, re-designed and implemented customer facing UIs, with a focus on customer experience, led the re-architecture of infrastructure services and migration to Terraform.

Responsible for building and maintaining technology solutions and the engineering team as a member of the company's senior leadership team. Involved in a little bit of everything across our entire offering, including managing a cross-site engineering team in London & Berlin. Designed, architected, implemented and automated our current cloud infrastructure and CI platforms and analytics solutions. Designed and built various product features from UX to UIs to backend services.

Technical lead for the Elsevier big data platform (BOS) which was looking provide ubiquitous access and data processing capabilities across Elsevier’s wealth of data. Responsible for the technical leadership and development of big data applications, infrastructure and deployment in the cloud, primarily using Scala and Spark in conjunction with AWS. Presented about Elsevier’s journey with Apache Spark at the Spark Summit Europe 2016 conference.Products & Technologies: Scala, Spark, AWS, Terraform, Puppet, Python, Dropwizard, SBT, big data

Development Team Lead, EMEA Liquidity Engines (September 2014 – June 2015) Development team lead, responsible for developing, delivering and supporting smart order routing, micro- algorithmic trading and internal crossing technologies as part of the electronic trading technology team. Managing a team of four developers based in London and coordinating global requirements with EMEA execution services as well as US and APAC development teams. Software Engineer, EMEA Liquidity Engines (September 2012 – June 2015) Software engineer in the algorithmic trading engines team, developing the low latency Java smart order router component. Responsible for developing and supporting new and existing functionality, working with global development teams in APAC and the US. Products & Technologies: Low latency core Java, smart order routing, electronic trading, equities

Senior Inventor, IBM (February 2012 – August 2012) Senior Inventor at IBM, working with development teams and employees to develop their patent portfolios, to strengthen and protect IBM's intellectual property. 4 invention disclosures filed and 15 disclosures published. Software Engineer, IBM Tivoli Network Manager (November 2011 – August 2012) Software engineer in an agile development team for the IBM Tivoli Network Manager (ITNM) product. Leading the development of Java based network data collection from Enterprise Management Systems. Products & Technologies: Java, ITNM Software Engineer, Business Events and Rules (October 2008 – November 2011) Software engineer in an agile development team for the WebSphere Business Events (WBE) complex event processing product. Responsible for designing, developing, testing and servicing of new and existing product function. Led, designed, architected and developed the WBE 7.0.1.1 usability fix pack. Provided development support and presentations for WBE customers, services and support organisation. Products & Technologies: Java, JEE, JavaScript, Dojo, JDBC, SOAP over HTTP, Ant, shell and Python scripting Software Engineer, WebSphere Application Server (September 2007 – October 2008) Lead functional tester for WS-AT, WS-BA and WS-RM for WebSphere Application Server 7.0. Products & Technologies: J2EE, WebSphere Application Server, EJB JAXWS, WS-Technologies, Ant

Technical student placement on the Extreme Blue Internship scheme at IBM Hursley, working on a 12 week project around a distributed active teaching tool.

Web Designer and Search Engine Optimisation specialist for a small web development and SEO company.Responsible for both administrative tasks such as liaising with clients and sending out monthly progress reports; and the design, creation and maintenance of client websites, and their optimisation for search engines.