Performing full scale digital transformation across a 25 year old brand and recent acquisition of Homeserve PLC.Shipped in year 1:- New consumer website - New infrastructure as code (Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS) PAAS- New Office & Team in London- New Sales CRM (Salesforce) - New marketing stack (Pardot)- New Data and Insights Platform (Apache Airflow, Hadoop / Hive, Presto, Chartio)

PE backed Excalibur is the UKs largest daily deal group.Responsible for Product & EngineeringDelivered new strategy for travel as well as dynamic packaging MVPIncreased uptime and stability and introduced devops and infrastructure automation

Worked to define multi-brand strategy (Medicanimal, Petmeds, Petsupermarket & Paws):- Positive EBITDA focus for existing brands- New offering Product Market fit for PawsOther key initiatives:* New Warehouse migration & ERP* Focused on improving customer NPS

(acquired by Etsy)With more than 6 million products from 360k designers Dawanda is the leading marketplace in Germany to buy unique, customised and handmade products.Board Member and CTO, together with the COO & CEO reshaped the org structure and brought the company back to profitability.Focusing on building an even more amazing Dawanda through Data Driven Product Engineering & responsible for Product, Engineering, Design, BI & Data Science.

With 150 million active monthly users, Brainly is the world largest student Q&A platform reaching over 1/5th of the worlds students.Grew and built Product, Tech and Data teams across New York, Berlin and Krakow.Achievements:- Company strategy & Product Vision- Agile transformation- Rebuilding the business logic from the ground up- Supporting a fast scaling (10MMU to 60MMU) legacy architecture- Business Intelligence- RebrandingResponsible for Product Engineering & Data

Wimdu, a Rocket Internet venture (acquired by Novasol) Backed by funding of $90m from Rocket Internet and Kinnevik, Wimdu is Europe’s largest city peer to peer property rental site with 300k properties available in over 100 countries.Achievements: Department: Unified Product, Engineering & BI and created full-stack teams working within an agile framework with quarterly goals and autonomy to define and execute towards the goals.Product: Moved from top-down project management to prioritisation based on business impact and cost with a fast feedback loop with the customer & lean approach in validating hypothesis and developing solutions to problems.Business Intelligence - Brought full A/B testing framework online allowing for both A/B and multivariant testing on anything. Thereafter we aimed to A/B & even vapour test wherever possible allowing us to quickly validate hypothesis.Engineering - Large overhaul of key areas, stripped out unnecessary feature bloat to focus on what really matters. Refactored when possible and moved Wimdu towards high availability SOA architecture allowing us to scale the team. HR - Built and trained in-house talent acquisition team allowing us to scale and attract top talent within a very competitive market. Removed predominant reliance on freelancer and brought on full-time staff.

Built a talent acquisition business focused on mid-level to executive hires for companies using Ruby and other specialist technologies. Placed hundreds of permanent and temporary staff throughout the UK and Europe.

Boutique web agency focused on delivery through cutting edge agile practices. Built up to one of the UKs leading boutiques focused on solving problems for our approximately 150 customers.Worked with a huge variety of clients, from early stage startups (seedrs.com, amee.com) through to large corporations (CNN, AON).

Enterprise SAAS suite for compliance with CRC, EU-ETS, ISO14064 and the Carbon Disclosure Project. Under the hood we built a popular open source platform and set of APIs that aggregates carbon and GHG emissions for everything in the world; from passenger transport, raw materials, through to consumer goods. The platform contained GHG information for more than 4 million objects with over 300million data points.Responsible for strategy, scaling and business development

Joined as first employee at Greenvoice, a micro-financing platform for environmental campaigns funded by a private investor. Built initial prototype with investor to quickly validate idea. From this grew team to around 25. Was first business using rails / ruby in London, part of the initial ruby community

Internship as Software engineer working within the GeoQuest Systems group (circa 150 people). C++ Development within the oil drilling modelling software.

Internship in SysOps at Schlumberger Abingdon.1st and 2nd level support of Windows, Linux and Solaris & internal build servers.Network infrastructure, telephony, software rollout, domain management, security.