As the Head of Engineering for the Order & Pay Tribe at SumUp, I have the exciting opportunity to lead a team of talented engineers in building innovative and scalable products for our clients. Based in London, we have designed a modern Serverless architecture utilizing AWS, Typescript, and DynamoDB to power our APIs, which are used in Kotlin and React apps.Order & Pay is a Loonshot within SumUp, which means we have the autonomy and culture of a startup. Still, we can utilise the power of the SumUp brand and many talented tribes across Identity, Hardware, POS and Online Payments for support to grow.Since taking on this role, I have had the pleasure of growing our engineering team from just three members to a multi-squad, cross-functional organization that powers several products. We have a diverse client base, ranging from global enterprises to independent cafes and restaurants.One of our Tribe's achievements is designing, building, testing, and launching a product in just 12 weeks, which has now generated over £2m in total payment volume in only 2 months and is growing at 40% MoM.I'm currently hiring for several roles across Product, Design and Engineering, if you'd like to be a part of our journey, send me a message.

I volunteer as an instructor for Code First Girls, teaching the Data and SQL course 👩‍🎓 The course covers everything from the basics of querying and SQL syntax, through to virtual tables, events and triggers, and ends with a final presentation where students build an ER diagram, and write queries, triggers and stored procedures for a database model of their choosing 🎛

We're building a new payments ecosystem, that's people first, free from cards. Planting a forest as we grow, with every payment, merchant and person 🌳A new network of payments 💸 data powered with Open Banking at our foundations. If you're interested in first principle thinking, in building something huge, and in tackling some hugely complex problems using the latest technologies, send me a message 📩Are you excited about using Serverless, AWS, Typescript 🤓 and node to build a network that will become fundamental to the way humans transact across the globe, then join us 🌱 on a journey that's only just beginning 🚀

Working with staff, students and entrepreneurs on developing and presenting strategic and tactical plans to maximimise the potential and quality of future and existing schemes at the King's College Entrepreneurship Institute.

Managing the engineering team, feature delivery, project ROI, product roadmap, engineering processes, engineering recruitment, agile ceremonies, technical partnerships and more. Responsibilities & Accomplishments- Designed and managed the full engineering hiring process, including a bespoke engineering test, and a set of behavioural and technical questions focused on Expend's engineering values. Hired 2 front end developers and 4 back-end developers through this pipeline over 18 months. - Coached and mentored engineers within expend with weekly one-to-ones, focusing on career progression, resolving technical issues and encouraging collaboration in the team. - Setup and evangelised both one-to-ones and 360-degree feedback.- Conducted scrum ceremonies for the core features team and evangelised scrum & agile. - Negotiated contracts with software vendors. Leading ROI calculations for various technical projects, including product features, technical debt, and data migrations. - Introduced OKRs as a goal-setting framework across the whole company, organising and facilitating objective setting meetings, and evangelising the framework across engineering and operations.- Conducted Information Security (InfoSec) audits and self-assessments for technical partnerships with banks, payment networks and accounting software companies. - Facilitated and lead a cross-functional product role by getting stakeholders across the business to collaborate on defining and prioritising the product roadmap.- Lead the adaptation of social, engineering and company-wide rituals during the COVID-19 pandemic.TechnologiesPython 3, JavaScript, React, AioHTTP, microservices, asynchronous code (asyncIO), CI/CD, drone, GitHub, git, event-driven architectures, event streaming, queuing, Amazon Web Services (AWS), payments, accounting, Quickbooks, Xero, REST APIs, serverless functions, ECS, Lambda, SQS, SN, API Gateway, DynamoDB (NoSQL), PostgreSQL (SQL/RDBMS)

Leading technical decisions and strategy for key areas of the codebase, taking the lead on several key features, and evangelising good coding practices and agile within the team.- Technical leadership within the codebase, including OCR scanning, accounting integrations, expense APIs and permissions systems. - Created a code review process including a risk audit, security checks automated using Snyk integration, and documentation to help developers provide clear PRs.- Setup a full local development environment using Localstack to mock AWS, and created and updated several simulator services to allow significantly faster code iteration.TechnologiesPython 3, JavaScript, React, AioHTTP, microservices, asynchronous code (asyncIO), CI/CD, drone, GitHub, git, event-driven architectures, event streaming, queuing, Amazon Web Services (AWS), payments, accounting, Quickbooks, Xero, REST APIs, serverless functions, ECS, Lambda, SQS, SN, API Gateway, DynamoDB (NoSQL), PostgreSQL (SQL/RDBMS)

Head of Technology and Director (CF1) at StepEx, a FinTech platform for alternative student finance. Key Achievements:• Developed income prediction software module, using machine learning. • Built an enterprise fully-scalable and secure website using Django on Google Cloud. • Built an end to end CI/CD testing and deployment pipeline.• Created a regulated loan origination and fund management platform including third party integrations with KYC, AML and payments providers.Responsibilities:• Responsible for managing development resources, including recruitment and code reviews.• Technology cost and budget management.

A 6-month internship supported by the Co-op program of UNSW, at WiseTech Global.Worked on Master Data Management, Learning Algorithms, Placeholder Detection, UX design, Data Analysis, Mentoring, Project Management. Languages: C#, Python, XAML, Javascript.

Private mathematics tutoring for high school students from year 7 to HSC Extension 2 Mathematics.Experience in self-management, advertising, customer service, teaching skills, and empathy.

Residential tutor employed to tutor collegians (university students), run tutorials and stay updated in the relevant academic fields.

Head Tutor and acting CTO at Intellecquity, a EduTech startup aiming to disrupt the tutoring industry worldwide.Prototyped a react native mobile app, and managed a team of 30+ tutors remotely.

I worked for 5 days in both 2015 and 2016, serving drinks and making cocktails behind the bar at Splendour in the Grass, a major music festival near Byron Bay.

High level hospitality work, catering for a variety of functions.Project management, fast paced service, customer service, problem solving skills.

I learnt important work skills, including how to deal with fast paced stressful situations, how to manage people, and how to present myself.