Moved to Microsoft Azure for Operators as part of the acquisition of Metaswitch Networks.Manager of small team of software engineers 6-8 working on the SDE SIP loadbalancer product in use by several large telco customers. Managed the team's backlog, provided day to day feedback/coaching and carried out performance assessments. Built the team from scratch, creating an empowered, supportive environment where engineers felt they could make a real difference.Carried out many aspect of the product ownership role for SDE including: - Managing the product backlog and delivering releases. - Defining requirements handling for new features, including negotiating with the customer facing teams to ensure we delivered the correct enhancements to quality and on time. - Representing engineering on customer calls.Additionally acted as test and security lead for SDE: - Assessing against Microsoft standards and new security risks - Prioritisation of security improvements - Writing product threat models - Overall responsibility for maintaining and improving product quality - Writing and reviewing test strategies, including for QA

Software developer across a wide range of telecoms products and cloud platforms, working first as a test specialist then in an agile development team writing product and CI/CD code in C++, python for a cloud based SIP loadbalancer.Experience with both agile and waterfall product development, including as Scrum Master for a small team for several years.Testing related experience includes: - Automated regression testing across a number of products and levels, from UT frameworks to solution test suites. - Testing and delivering complex, 5x9s availability, large scale telco products used across the world. - Session based testing and rapid software testing methodologies