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Maldon, GB

London, England, GB

London, England, GB

London, England, GB

Wrote policy and procedure documents, helping to achieve Tide’s ISO 27001 accreditation. Drove rapid remediation of audit and pen-test findings, working closely with the CISO and handling numerous auditor calls. Played a key role in Tide’s Series-C funding round by preparing roadmaps and documentation, and participating in investor calls.Established a.

London, England, GB

Initiated a Cloud Engineering function at Tide from scratch. Hired engineers across three countries, set targets, goals and strategies. Enabled rapid development of secure, stable and performant cloud services by back-end and data science teams using a self-service model, reducing time-to-delivery from weeks to minutes. Bolstered security, reliability and.

London, England, GB

Chicago, IL, US

Working with ThoughtWorks’ clients to implement and improve code delivery, tooling and infrastructure. Helped the Department for Work and Pensions to move to continuous delivery of infrastructure-as-code to over 100,000 hosts, devising a secure environment within AWS from which to execute Terraform code across infrastructure serving millions of users..

Gearspring is my own company, through which I help teams to deliver better software more frequently. Using a pragmatic blend of agile techniques and best practices in automation and testing, I work with teams to discover and overcome the obstacles that are slowing them down and harming their quality.

London, UK, GB

Working with a team of four, I delivered a standardised code test and delivery pipeline across several development teams within Lloyds Banking Group as part of Europe’s largest digital transformation in the banking sector. This was a hands-on role that involved configuration of Jenkins, Gerrit, Bluemix, and various other tools and custom scripts. My work.

Cambridge, Cambs, GB

I helped ARM to move arm.com, plus some supporting applications, from Windows to ARM-based HP Moonshot microservers. The key to this transition was devising a server architecture that scaled across multiple microservers, while maintaining high availability at high load. My work also included devising a means of updating and restructuring legacy code to.

London, London, GB

I developed and delivered a continuous integration and deployment system based around Atlassian Bamboo, and provided training and support to help the team to move to the development process this facilitated. I also worked on several internal Symfony 2 applications that provided APIs to expose core business functions, as well as an internal OAuth provider.

I developed a new Symfony 2 web app under the 118118 brand, making use of 118118’s existing backend APIs. My initial focus was on delivering a continuous integration system for this project. After this I moved into general development on the project. I then moved on to implementing a redesign of another of the company’s properties, kgbdeals.co.uk. Latterly.

London, England, GB

I took responsibility for integrating secretsales.com with a third party email marketing service. This included adding hooks on key events to the sales site and communicating with various APIs, as well as bespoke scripts to ensure that local and remote databases remained synchronised. Alongside this I was instrumental in helping the team to transition to a.

London, GB

I was responsible for delivering a web application as promotion for the documentary film From The Sea To The Land Beyond, which was later aired on BBC4. The site itself won a FOCAL International Award for “Best Use of Footage on Digital or Non-Television Platforms.” This role required a great deal of communication with the client, as well as designers.

Alongside continuing development work, this role involved managing a four-person development team, taking high level requirements from my project manager and converting them into development tasks. I was also tasked with increasing test coverage, refining the team's development strategy and overseeing the architecture of new features.

My initial focus was on User Experience for a B2B web application they were developing. My role soon expanded to more general software engineering, during which time I gained extensive experience using PHP and JavaScript. I also significantly improved my knowledge of engineering best practices and software design patterns.