Jessica Reid Email & Phone Number

Falkirk, Gb

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Jessica is a tech lead in an organisation with data pipelines managing relationships between products, processing data at petabyte-scale. Her team manages 2.4BN relationships, adding over 30MM each month. Her work involves batch- and event-based processing, storage, and publishing of relationship changes using machine learning technologies. She leads cross-team projects, and components for cross-organisational efforts, while also providing input to the overall strategy. She also develops the data orchestration platform that powers the data pipelines of various business verticals.Jessica is experienced with a variety of tech stacks and is always eager to learn new technologies. Most of her experience is with AWS services such as EMR, DynamoDB, RDS, Lambda, SQS, and SNS with implementation primarily written in Java. She uses Typescript for infrastructure management, Python for scripting and Node.js/React for front-end. All services have CI/CD with team ownership of all operational responsibilities. She helps maintain and upgrade software, such as Java major version upgrades and security upgrades of libraries.Jessica is a point of contact for teams globally to assist their efforts in solving critical and time-sensitive business problems. She also assists with their design decisions and integration to core infrastructure with a focus on simplifying cross-team engagement.Jessica's mentoring of intern and permanent software developers has a proven track record of success with them growing and advancing to the next stages of their career.Jessica is solely responsible for managing and maintaining double-digit $MM compute spend for part of the organisation. She has led and influenced double-digit % cost improvement measures without impacting system performance or project progress, often improving both.Jessica leads multiple teams' efforts to maintain compliance with global data privacy requirements such as Data Subject Access Requests and On Demand Data Deletion.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

During the thirteen week internship Jessica worked on personalised and automated merchandising for Amazon’s retail websites and mobile applications. She also worked on a new web-based project, making use of HTML Canvas element for graphic creation, helping to bring it from conception to its initial launch.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

During the thirteen week internship Jessica took ownership of her own project and experienced the full software development life cycle from requirements gathering and analysis through to quality assurance entry and eventually to production.