At LoveJunk we're endeavouring to increase reuse of unwanted bulky items and solve inefficiencies in the waste disposal industry - while supporting waste reuse and recycling.At LoveJunk we built a waste disposal marketplace and disposal arbitrage business from the ground up. We had a particular focus on operational and development efficiency, and developed several approaches to encode entire swathes of frontend business logic into the backend APIs - this allowed us to hugely increase developer velocity and create more business value.A few of the major technologies used in our stack: Scala, AWS CDK, next.js, react.js, react-native, postgres.

Freelance writer for Human Readable Magazine, writing about functional programming and scala.

Senior scala developer responsible for upskilling the team and refactoring an old code base to use the typelevel stack

A hands-on role responsible for a tech transformation. Architected and piloted a migration from a legacy system to a new, modern system. From the bytes in the DB to the pixels hitting the users eyes - Every aspect was new, modern, maintainable, extensible and fresh. Zero downtime during the migration.I was responsible for the planning and direction of the details of the project, and implementing the bulk of the BE transformation.

Responsible for the design, maintenance and oversee of development of all back-end Scala systems.The systems were mostly deprecating a Node.js server into independent, dedicated apps with a focus on massive scalability and concurrency, and the 'right' data storage decisions.