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- Developed the “used vehicle advert management system” MVP I built in 2022 into a production ready system, delivering it for KGM as their first client.- Integrated Auth0 as well as 3rd party vendors for vehicle lookups and multi-directional sync of adverts.- Implemented REST APIs for public data, an admin panel and developer diagnostics.- Tech: .NET 6, SQLServer, EF, REST APIs, xUnit, Wiremock, Auth0, React.

London Area, United Kingdom

- Built “Measurement Framework”, an MVP dashboard application, database and set of ETL services for bringing together various datasets related to the BMW retailer website ecosystem. - Added features to a set of microservices used by BMW and MINI retailer services such as "Service Online" and test drive booking applications.- Migrated BMW cookie policy management APIs from Azure Functions/EventGrid to AWS.- Re-platformed the barilla.com website targeting over 40 locales using Contentful as a headless CMS.- Tech: .NET 6, Grafana, AWS (ECS, SQS, Cloudfront, S3), Azure (AppService, SQL Azure, AppInsights), Terraform, Azure DevOps, React, Typescript, jQuery/Vanilla JS, Selenium, Algolia.

- Visarc Ltd: Designed and built an MVP for a highly configurable “used vehicle advert management system” that can be integrated into a variety of client websites. - Elvis Communications Ltd: Delivered a promotional giveaway site for Belvita UK using .NET and React.- Cofoundry (open source): Released v0.10 which focuses on security and features for user accounts. I also worked to improve automated test coverage and to migrate to .NET 6.- During this period I also worked to finish a self-build house project.

London, England, United Kingdom

- Delivered 18 competition websites for clients including PepsiCo, Mondelez and Nomad Foods, receiving millions of competition entries and awarding £100,000s of prizes and 100s of priceless experiences.- Built a highly adaptable and secure “Competitions” system which supports flexible concurrency-safe entry mechanics, multiple prize allocation algorithms, anti-fraud detection, fault-tolerant 3rd party integration through message queues, auditing and reporting.- Developed a Facebook chatbot messaging framework for a competition scaling to millions of users.- Researched and presented on the application of AI/ML in our campaigns. - Tech: .NET Core, SQLServer, EF, REST APIs, xUnit, jMeter, AWS (EC2, RDS, S3), React, Azure ML Studio.

London, United Kingdom

-Architected an event-driven system to unify AXA XLs underwriter pricing process that spanned several business units and teams across the globe. Using a modular approach I broke the system down and presented it as a roadmap to deliver in a set of low-risk iterations.- Consulted on an HR project with Shell and on a successful pitch for a new Virgin loyalty programme.- Dockerized their design system website to improve DX across skillsets and platforms.

London, United Kingdom

- Delivered a wide range of digital projects for clients including Eastman, BP and KFC in a role that spanned back-end, architecture, DevOps, and occasional front-end work.- Built "Formity", an extensive social media platform aimed at industrial designers and material experts. The platform included user generated content, real-time activity feeds, messaging, ranked comment trees, image tagging, moderations features and ranking algorithms using mixed criteria and time decay.- Built "Ascent", a performance self-improvement and 360° review tool based around a cyclic sprint workflow, featuring questionnaires and aggregated result data to plot improvement over time.- Created “Cofoundry”, an open source .NET Core CMS.- Tech: .NET Core, SQLServer, REST APIs, EF, Dapper, nUnit, Lucene.NET, Azure (AppServic, Web/Worker Roles, IaaS, Storage Blobs/Queues, Azure Service Bus), TeamCity, Octopus Deploy, Azure DevOps, Docker, AngularJS, jQuery, SASS, Gulp, React.

London, United Kingdom

- Applied DDD practices into their music licensing hub system to organise code and better capture domain knowledge, reducing code duplication and improving onboarding and developer experience (DX).- Implemented a versioning, workflow and approval framework to allow users to build change sets when updating their catalogue data.- Developed a shopping cart and payment gateway integration for their music licensing portal.- Implemented a single page app (SPA) to streamline the onboarding process for new music catalogues.- Tech: .NET, SQLServer, WebAPI, CSS, jQuery, Ext.Js, Photoshop, IIS.

Portsmouth, United Kingdom

- Recruited and managed a team covering software development, system administration and digital design.- Designed and developed productivity and tracking systems, transforming the way the business worked with remote field agents.- Redeveloped customer facing reporting portals and implemented new media processing pipelines to improve analytics and substantially reduce time to delivery for audio and video artefacts.- Created a UI framework to enable quick, easy and standardised UI development.- Integrated multiple client SSO solutions and improved security of the existing auth system.- Tech: .NET, CSS, jQuery, Photoshop, SQLServer, SSRS, WCF, Windows Server, IIS.