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London, GB

London, England, United Kingdom

• Directed Bitcoin Node software feature development, improved security, and scalability.
• Leadership & Motivation: Led development of new features with team of 9 highly motivated engineers. Included security enhancements and 40% reduction in memory usage of BSV Node.
• Technical Engineering Acumen: Administered the development of CI system using GitHub Actions. Multiple Linux distributions exercised, consistently producing repeatable builds.
• Agile Delivery Management: Released numerous BSV Node software versions adapting to frequently changing priorities, using Atlassian Jira and Advanced Roadmaps.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Managed 3 cross-functional development teams to build microservices for BaaS platform on AWS.
• Engineering Team Development: Reconfigured teams to meet dynamic platform requirements for Kensei product. Ensured necessary information flowed between squads via scrum of scrums.
• Strategic Problem Solving: Conducted a detailed technical audit uncovering key scalability and performance issues between Kensei’s Golang and.NET components, and the BSV blockchain.
• Product Development: Championed and implemented System Thinking and Lean principles. Resulted in regular component and system demonstrations from teams across the portfolio.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Delivered a zero-confirmation payment prototype that prevents fraud / double spending of funds.
• Leadership & Motivation: Strategically guided development work of constituent parts amongst a diverse range of stakeholders.
• Agile Delivery Management: Efficiently orchestrated releases of mobile and server-side projects (SPV Channels and Merchant API) and corresponding Docker images.
• Strategic Problem Solving: Mediated formation of the BSV Technical Standards Committee (TSC). Liaised with committee members to create working groups and formulate processes.

London

• Led 2 scrum teams. Delivered multi-language SDK and Java library during company start-up phase.
• Agile Delivery Management: Refactored the existing BitcoinJ core libraries. More modular structure meant other network analysis tools could be built using this as a foundation.
• Product Development: Focused the team on a release schedule and Product Roadmap. Delivered the Nakasendo SDK, providing cryptographic libraries for Python, C++, and JavaScript.
• Leadership & Motivation: Mentored an underperforming engineer to develop and build a Java block headers client (github) and evaluated progress throughout.

London, United Kingdom

• Served and led cross-functional Scrum team of 10 on client’s document management system.
• Leadership and Motivation: Consultant for initial SAFe rollout. Engineered MI Dashboards to illuminate cross-project dependencies.
• Engineering Team Development: Coached development team on Scrum methodology, including estimating and Sprint planning and removal of impediments. Lean.

London, United Kingdom

• Led a test automation initiative to replace manual testing for rapid regression test capabilities.
• Technical Engineering Acumen: Engineered and developed an automation suite using TDD to test an evolving document management system. Configured CI system to run nightly.
• Leadership and Motivation: Educated and guided an inexperienced developer to monitor and fix failing tests. Increased capacity allowed me to widen further adoption of agile methods.

London, United Kingdom

• Agile software development to build internal tools and applications.
• Technical Engineering Acumen: Implemented a message conversion and mapping application. Architected a multi-exchange topology to facilitate future scale-ability and load balancing.

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be (Hons), Computer Software Engineering, 2:1

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