Contract and Freelance:* The Body Coach: New app, feature parity with iOS + more. On-demand + live video, recipes, workout + meal planner, check-in, etc. MVI, coroutines.* Toyota: Sped up delivery to meet tight deadlines, improved architecture, and encouraged + enabled automated testing on Toyota car sharing app for launch in Spain and first stage of new Kinto app for launch in Poland.* Rapid delivery of app for AT&T Harman Spark across US, providing in-car telematics, WiFi control,… Show more Contract and Freelance:* The Body Coach: New app, feature parity with iOS + more. On-demand + live video, recipes, workout + meal planner, check-in, etc. MVI, coroutines.* Toyota: Sped up delivery to meet tight deadlines, improved architecture, and encouraged + enabled automated testing on Toyota car sharing app for launch in Spain and first stage of new Kinto app for launch in Poland.* Rapid delivery of app for AT&T Harman Spark across US, providing in-car telematics, WiFi control, trip view with driving scores, etc. * Team building + training at Hive, interviewing + mentoring, advising on Android + TDD, improving agile process.* Piriform CCleaner on Android -- pre Avast buyout -- delivering full redesign, launching paid version, mentoring junior developer, improving legacy codebase, boosting application stability, rebooting BDD and tripling unit tests. Resulted in application crash free 99.9% with 9m monthly active users, revenue steadily increasing.* Built Android app for digital currency and payment platform CoinJar. Hired + trained junior dev, hired replacement senior dev.* Android kick-off at Gamesys with solid testing infrastructure, hiring team, mentoring & training in Android, DDD, TDD.* Porting Windows-oriented C++ game engine and library for reuse on Android and iOS.* NBC Sochi Winter Olympics 'news feed', synchronised with US and international time zones and airing times, used across US during event.* New Home experience & Welcome view on Tesco Groceries app* Realtime video capture + transcode on Android for Dark Industries. Show less

* Setting up CI static analysis, starting to get legacy codebase under test, improving quality and app stability.* Experimentation with many agile and lean project management and development techniques. Experience with Scrum, Kanban, pair-programming, TDD, BDD, and so on. * Android (1.5+) development

* Leading development of dealer booking system ("MSXI Dealer") rolled out in stages to Ford dealerships across Italy, later deployed to Germany, France, UK, Netherlands dealerships.* Supporting various global projects for leading automotive OEM clients ("BookIt", "MSXI Dealer", "WIRE", "Technical Helpdesk")* Supervising and mentoring small team of developers, planning and allocating work,s ensuring progression.* Configuring JBoss AS clustering, Apache load balancing, carrying out… Show more * Leading development of dealer booking system ("MSXI Dealer") rolled out in stages to Ford dealerships across Italy, later deployed to Germany, France, UK, Netherlands dealerships.* Supporting various global projects for leading automotive OEM clients ("BookIt", "MSXI Dealer", "WIRE", "Technical Helpdesk")* Supervising and mentoring small team of developers, planning and allocating work,s ensuring progression.* Configuring JBoss AS clustering, Apache load balancing, carrying out performance and load testing.* Performing application and DB releases and data migrations on *nix systems (Linux, Solaris). Show less

* C++ and C, writing software for in-house hardware and Windows machines, for the broadcast industry.* Work on and with open-source libs, video and audio codecs and formats, inspecting and repairing media, and reverse engineering and modifying codecs.* Designing, maintaining, modifying and optimising Oracle databases, PL/SQL. * Working on, maintaining and fixing Linux servers, configuring FTP, web, and mail servers.* Dealing with clients over the phone and in person, monitoring… Show more * C++ and C, writing software for in-house hardware and Windows machines, for the broadcast industry.* Work on and with open-source libs, video and audio codecs and formats, inspecting and repairing media, and reverse engineering and modifying codecs.* Designing, maintaining, modifying and optimising Oracle databases, PL/SQL. * Working on, maintaining and fixing Linux servers, configuring FTP, web, and mail servers.* Dealing with clients over the phone and in person, monitoring systems running at broadcaster locations (BBC, UPC, ...), and offering technical support. * Staffing exhibition stands at broadcast industry events, fielding questions from potential customers. Show less

Similar to previous MSX position above, but not in a senior role. Was later offered senior position with more projects and responsibility, managing and mentoring junior developers.

* First employee. Dealing with clients, co-located server admins, keeping the company running 3 out of 5 days while head of company out of office. * Main programmer, working with Perl, PHP, HTML4, JS, SQL. Administering Linux boxes and MySQL databases.* Developed reusable site building and administration packages to allow customers to set up their own shopping sites.