Worked with early-stage to series A start ups to define their business, find product market fit, build their product and grow their engineering teams, culture and process.Worked both tactically and strategically, filling the role of Tech Lead, Engineering Manager, Tech Director and CTO across Hex and our clients as needed. Responsible for technical strategy of Hex and our clients, growing the product and engineering organisations and reporting to the board.I believe a high performing team is one with happy, psychologically-safe people, that highly values communication and collaboration, that shares a vision and understands their role to accomplish their goals.- Built high performing teams from scratch for Hex and multiple start ups, via recruitment, training, goal setting and feedback. Hired Engineering Managers to manage these teams as they grew larger. These teams were crucial to the success of our start ups.- Managed the performance and delivery for these teams, both as an engineering manager and as a manager-of-managers, facilitating growth via 1:1s, training, goal-setting and strong feedback loops.- Worked as a Tech Lead for our start ups, facilitating technical discussions, designing solutions and owning and building features and fixes.- Worked and communicated directly with start ups, both at pre-sales and as an acting CTO, as well as with our start up’s customers to understand their needs, frame our work and provide the team with feedback and praise.Predominant working day tech stack includes:- PHP 7.x/8.x (Laravel)- TypeScript, JavaScript, Vue, Nuxt, Node- HTML, CSS (+ SCSS, BEM syntax, ITCSS, Tailwind)- MySQL / MariaDB- Google Cloud, Heroku, Vercel, nginx, Apache- git, GitHub, npm/yarn, composer- eslint, tslint, stylelint, phpcs, phpstan, webpack, vite- Docker, docker-compose- PestPHP, Jest, Vue Test Utils, Cypress- GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Travis- Ionic, Capacitor

I ensure my team produces great quality code, providing direction, guidance and training where required. Responsible for technical architecture of several large projects, as well as keeping Hex at the forefront of the industry with modern tools and practices.- Consistently achieved on-time and on-budget web development builds, resulting in exceeding targeted profit by 34% year on year.- Built a number of robust marketing-focused websites, for clients including universitiy departments, restaurants and start-up accelerators.- Introduced Webpack for frontend assets, including bundle splitting and code splitting, and minifying and merging JS and SCSS files.- Introduced Vue.js to improve code maintainability and reuse, seeing significant improvement in cost-to-build and cost-to-maintain.- Championed design tokens, to reduce complexity of design and dev paradigm, ensure consistency across related projects, and simple updates.- Aimed to ship quickly, championing initiatives to keep our deployment pipeline quick and our cycle-time low Predominant working day tech stack includes:- PHP 7.2 + 5.6 (Laravel 5.7+, Wordpress)- Javascript ES5 + ES6 (Vue 2.x, Node.js, jQuery)- HTML5, CSS3 (+ SCSS, BEM syntax, ITCSS, AtomicCSS)- MySQL / MariaDB- AWS (S3, Route 53), Apache (CPanel + WHM, vhosts), nginx, Heroku- git, GitHub, DeployBot, npm/yarn, bower, composer, eslint, phpcs, gulp, webpack- Automated Testing: PHPUnit, Jest, Vue Test Utils, Backstop visual regression testing- Continuous Integration: Travis

Full Stack Dev, fulfilling development end to end across the company verticals, while championing industry best practice and distilling it to the wider team. Facilitating RESTful APIs and Microservices, as well as websites, web apps, and beautiful Front End experiences.Predominant working day tech stack includes:- HTML5, CSS3 (+ SCSS, BEM syntax)- PHP 5.6 and 7 (Laravel 5.4+, Wordpress)- Javascript ES5 + ES6 (Vue 2.x, Node.js, jQuery)- MySQL / MariaDB- AWS (S3, Route 53), Apache (CPanel + WHM, vhosts), nginx, Heroku- git, GitHub, DeployBot, npm/yarn, bower, composer, eslint, phpcs, gulp, webpack

Engineer for PayPal, designing and creating solutions for PayPal UK. Performing research on merchant's existing website and payment integrations, and presenting data-led solutions to improve checkout flow and conversion rates.• Provided technical consulting to a portfolio of merchants, facilitating increased conversion and decreased cart abandonment. Supported and certified technical integrations• Developed automated tool to produce one-pager decks, reducing wasted optimisation effort for rejected pitches from days to just minutes, while increasing productivity and gauging interest for new merchants• Worked with XCode to rebuild prototype's of merchant's live apps, to demonstrate to them how PayPal would fit into their existing flow• PayPal granted me a firm grasp of the Payments industry, as well as in-depth working knowledge of common PayPal productsPredominant working day tech stack included:- HTML5, CSS3- PHP 5.6- JavaScript + jQuery- MySQL- git, GitHub- XCode (Developer C, Swift)

Fullstack Developer with accountability for managing client relationships, controlling budgets and designing/developing websites and web applications for clients. Utilised HTML5, CSS3, PHP, jQuery and MySQL. • Developed online organisation tool for staff and clients to improve company-client relationship and decrease the time required to interact with clients and explain updates. This tool greatly increased efficiency through all sections of the company and we received an abundance of compliments from clients on the system• Further developed abilities to work in a team on one or multiple projects, while also juggling solo projects and communicating with clientsPredominant working day tech stack included:- HTML5, CSS3- PHP 5.6 (+ Wordpress)- Javascript, jQuery- MySQL- Apache (CPanel + WHM, vhosts)- git, GitHub

Employed as a Data Analyst whilst utilised as a software engineer; Improved existing systems throughout several sectors of the business, minimized query run times and created automated solutions to problems that were being solved manually.• Refactored existing database and queries, reducing the running time of daily report generation from 6 hours to 40 minutes• Became very well known throughout the company by creating quality work in a short turnaround that end users found intuitive and useful• Created database solutions for all areas of the company. Often implementing creative solutions due to being restricted to using Microsoft Access. Met with colleagues to break down their requirements and present a viable solution. Employed RAD methodology due to changing or evolving requirements

Refilled stock and helped customers with all enquiries. Learnt valuable customer relation skills and the ability to work in a high-stress environment, especially around the Christmas periods. Allowed me to develop into a great multi-tasker with a level head, even under pressure, and improved my ability to communicate within a team.