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London, Gb

London, Gb

Leading the Tech team at Spot Ship to create a first class global Shipping Platform for Brokers. Creating scalable solutions & multidisciplinary teams to provide an amazing client experience that saves time and CO2 whilst in turn promoting economic growth in the sector. We take a client driven approach to match the needs of the people who will interact with our product everyday with how we prioritise and design future iterations.

London, Gb

Designibl means "Design Inspired By Life" and its purpose is to inform and create products that improve everyday life through accessibility and interconnectivity.The company was formed at the end of 2019 to create products that enhance the ever-growing digital layer of services people interact with everyday.​Our first product "Escapada" was originally created to connect the feedback loop of the hospitality industry with relevant personalised data through an app for hotels, holiday-lets & Airbnbs. Later put on hold due to the effect of the pandemic on the industry instead becoming a technical consultancy for startups.Escapada:- Created a multi platform app on SwiftUI (iOS/ipadOS/MacOS/tvOS)- Backend mix of Python running on AWS Lambda, external apis & no code solutions (Contentful, Supabase, Auth0)- Design system created in Sketch originally, later moving to FigmaRecently I have created a POC for https://www.fauxbooks.co.uk called Layout Creation Kit to automate the lengthy manual task of creating layouts of their faux bookend system. - Created a website to efficiently iterate through the possible permutations and time efficiently create layouts within set parameters of a bookcase. [Typescript, Nextjs, Tailwind, Supabase, Vercel]Our next product will be revealed soon.General:- Management of key stakeholders & all parts of the business.

Stewartby, England, Gb

Taking the reins from a temporary CTO & using my experience with EV Charging to create & lead a multi-year strategy overhauling and adapting to the complex demands of the energy sector. - Mentoring a team of developers to create an environment where they are comfortable owning portions of the product & running their own projects.- Performing Full stack dev duties, maintaining our legacy products [React Native, Apollo GraphQL, Kibana], creating new systems [Typescript, Nextjs, Terraform, Aws] and ensuring testing, CICD process’ [Github Actions] and documentation are up to date.- Owning the entire stack & dev processes (bringing them up to & exceeding modern standards).- Managing the roadmap & strategy, whilst liaising with internal & external stakeholders. - Growing the team with recruitment & ensuring great learning opportunities for existing team members.

London, England, Gb

Rejoining the previous CTO of Ome to run the distributed engineering team, designing new systems whilst maintaining legacy products. Delivering a smart charging solution that enables people to charge their EV's smarter and balance the UK grid. - Running the day to day engineering team [3-4 engineers] (1:1, Demo & Retro, Kanban processes, board & backlog etc.),and creating growth initiatives (Feature Friday, team growth matrix etc.)- Performing Full stack dev duties, developing our legacy products [React Ionic, PHP symfony, Docker], creating new systems [Python Lambdas, Cognito] and ensuring tests and documentation are up to date (BDD, unit tests, Swagger, Postman Collections & Integration tests)- Implementing and owning the CI-CD processes from linting at pre-push hooks through to deployment on Bitrise via Fastlane. - Kicking off our design systems and multi product thinking [Figma] whilst managing both internal & external stakeholders.

London, England, Gb

Part of a small distributed tech team, leading projects and involved in technical strategy for a startup creating a tenancy engagement platform. - Led an overhaul of our technical workflow to integrate UX methodologies and redesigned and implemented a new look for our meeting rooms service so that users could search, filter and visualise room availability. [React Native, UX, Sketch]- Implemented a self service website, integrated with hubspot so that sales leads could be captured automatically. [React-js]- Improved team workflow, through documenting all our endpoints in Postman and creating tests and monitors. [Postman, Restful API]- Implemented several new features for iOS and Android applications such as notifications, stripe payments, streamlined app configuration, updated login flow. [iOS, Android, React Native , UX, Redux, AWS]

A key part of a small tech team as sole Android Developer, owning projects and involved in company strategy for a fast-paced startup creating a smart audio doorbell.- Led a major rewrite of the company’s Android app , increasing successful setup by 40%, reducing app size, increasing the number of compatible screen resolutions, creating feature parity with iOS and readying the app for localisation. [Java, Android Development, AWS, UX]- Designed and implemented an internal support tool reducing the company's need for tech support. [Reactjs, AWS]- Headed up technical product QC to reduce return rates and fix problems to optimise customer experience.- Planned and implemented Alexa Integration alongside the CTO increasing the product’s target audience. [Python, AWS, Terraform]- Integrated ecommerce platform with click and drop, removing manual steps and human error of copying customer details across. [HTML]

Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, Gb

Part of Profile team, developing concurrent systems, maintaining and reducing legacy systems and informing team strategy.- Moved the team away from on-premise infrastructure using AWS.- Automated cloud infrastructure by creating Terraform and Ansible scripts.- Created Java, JavaScript and Python Lambdas.- Created and used Docker containers, for example, automating the use of these in unit testing for Kafka and Couchbase.- Part of the hiring process and subsequently mentored a new team member from a code academy. - Mentored a team of four through a Tesco Labs placement, creating an Android app to help in-store colleagues return stock to shelves by efficiently routing them around the store. This included, creating the entire AWS backend API to power the front end app as well as designing the Android app screens and performing UX testing with colleagues and later in-store trials of the app. The project reduced putback time by around 30% for the average trolley size and was rolled out across all Tesco stores. [Java, Android Development, UX, AWS]

Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, Gb

Part of the Transport and Tracking team, working with a remote team in India, reducing the number of complaints around late deliveries.- Created a transport and tracking system from scratch to solve how best to use new hardware and software capabilities to optimise the customer and in house experience. This was done by taking delivery schedules and combining with live traffic data from Google Maps to create dynamic scheduling and inform customers of where their delivery was at any time. [Java]- Performed analysis of the feasibility of putting the system into practice.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Computer Science

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