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London, Gb

Pay anywhere or buy any product, in 10 seconds or less without an app or QR code, making all POS hardware and apps obsolete. $2.4m raised across US and UK.

London, London, Gb

• Introducing engineering initiatives to establish a culture of measurement and entrepreneurship. • Line management (aligning on company initiatives, career mentorship through personal development plans). • Continuous work on team’s operational strategy (process, knowledge sharing, cross-team collaboration).

London, London, Gb

• Delivering the next generation of PII-free advertising, taking the project from a proof-of-concept to a market-ready product with Enterprise customers. • Significant engineering achievements including introducing React and Jest, 100% test coverage and distributed architecture reaching Kubernetes scaling limits.

London, Gb

• Contract. On-site via 101 Ways helping Arcadia transform engineering and replatform to React. • Pair-owned greenfield component library used accross 7 brands including Topshop, Topman and Miss Selfridge. • Conducted dozens of contract technical interviews.

London, Gb

• EF10 alumnus. “EF is the best place to find a co-founder, build a company and access the world’s best investors. We’ve helped build over 140 technology companies collectively worth over $1bn.” • Co-founded Storydust which helped brands create “authenticity at scale” by letting them curate, license and use user-generated imagery of people using their products. • Implemented Google-quality image search via unsupervised learning ontology. Subsecond responses through map-reduce query planning. Search results were influenced by feedback loops from live content engagement. • Built enterprise-scale processing queue indexing over a million Instagram photos. • Stack: Infrastructure-as-code containerised microservice infrastructure (Node.js/Docker/CoreOS/RabbitMQ/Redis) on Google Cloud Platform, DigitalOcean and Azure with dynamic load balancing and alerting. 100% test coverage. React SPA.

London, England, Gb

• Early hire in full stack engineering pre-Series A to post-Series B. “Beamery is the world’s most advanced sourcing and recruitment marketing platform, empowering companies to treat candidates like customers.” • Mentored Founders & Coders interns through a full agile project alongside junior developer mentoring and pairing. • Worked one-to-one with Facebook (US), Balfour Beatty, Grab (Singapore), Greenhouse and Roivant. • Pair-lead development of candidate-facing Beamery Pages product (AngularJS) which was key to Balfour Beatty’s “Outstanding Impact Transformation & Change” win in the Firm Awards. • Lead frontend development of hiring analytics product, understanding candidate journeys from first visit to hire through Keen.io and Elasticsearch. • Data visualisation and reporting in React. Supported work on micro-frontend architecture. Implemented GDPR workflows, real time socket.io notifications and advanced UI for Elasticsearch. Established end-to-end testing with Selenium/Cucumber before QAs.

San Mateo, California, Us

• Full stack engineering on PlayStation’s best-in-class developer platform between London and San Mateo, CA. • Leadership on application’s frontend strategy (build, dependencies, introducing AngularJS). • Delivered AngularJS training to London and Bay Area senior engineers. Agile planning and sprint reviews with global stakeholders. • Delivered sprint visualisation project with GitHub/Rally APIs and D3. • Supported Architecture Board with greenfield serverless project on AWS (Node.js, CloudFormation and Elasticsearch).

London, England, Gb

• Developed Python web scrapers for high profile brands including Oxford University and Smirnoff. Published language normalisation algorithms for Mumsnet and Twitter.

• Internship. Co-delivered customer support app in Ruby on Rails/AngularJS in 3 months, reflecting real-time JIRA ticket activity. Implemented LDAP support in OSS project phpipam.

• Moved large legacy ecommerce systems to CakePHP, CS-Cart and WordPress. Automated WordPress theme creation from any site.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science

Advanced German