Managed engineering capabilities across three business groups including backend development, front end development, QA and DevOps – over 80 engineers across 10 teams. 3rd party and vendor management. Agile process design and engineering standards. Resourcing and recruitment pipelines. Production system management. Setting strategic technical direction. Building engineering culture.
 * Complete audio ad tech re-platform in two years with multi-million pound budget servicing business worth £MM annually. New department resourced from scratch. * Streaming infrastructure supporting hundreds of thousands of concurrent listeners enabling real-time ad insertion allowing listening experience to be customised to each individual. Built using high performance Java techniques. * Digital OOH ad tech platform MVP build created new line of revenue for business. * Simplification of booking and pricing of ad campaigns, focused on OOH but including 3rd party API integration, complex products and self-service. Will double the size of the business worth £100MMs annually, whilst reducing costs. * End to end business process streamlining, including Salesforce simplification and integration; cross domain order management and new invoicing system integration. 
 * Audio on demand platform for podcasts, catch up radio and flash briefings including integration into new ad platform. 
 * Re-architecture of data pipelines and analytics architecture to provide real time views to allow business to respond faster. 
 * Platform cost management, AWS simplification, search and logging infrastructure 
 * Cross department alignment on architectural approaches for backend systems, frontend UIs, development pipelines and environment management.Used many technologies, including: Java, Typescript, Go, C#, C++, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Linux, Graphql, Protocol Buffers, Kafka, MariaDB, MongoDB, Hazelcast, React, Snowflake, IBM Watson etc.

Client project lead and core engineer to deliver a low microsecond solution to a banking client.Utilised low latency Java techniques including off heap, zero GC, kernel bypass networking, core and irq pinning, custom serialisation. Proprietary FIX engine, networking, micro-services and data structure libraries.

EFX low latency javaTechnical lead of price distribution, liquidity management and trade capture system in core Java. Working closely with quants as system stakeholders to improve market facing system integrating with many exchanges.• Low level system development and optimization requiring deep profiling, lock free algorithms, clustering implementation and off heap management to fulfill ultra-low latency requirements (< 100 micros).• Managed long term project with external industry experts to develop new open source FIX engine.

Worked in a globally distributed team across London, New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Mumbai and Budapest to support ~5000 users including trading, operations, legal and compliance.• Introduced modern engineering practices in the group including CI, remote metrics, streamlined update deployments and user specific updates.• High profile, entirely autonomous integration project with custom built rule engine to allow smooth transition as new trading system deployed to users.• Custom built workflow engine to allow trades across different parts of the bank with full signoff integration and risk preview allowing back to back trading with full range of lifecycle events. Managed full lifecycle of project including requirements gathering and stakeholder management with the trading desks.• UI to manage complex structured products and linkage between components. Used project to push through upgrade from .Net 1.1 to 2.0. Managed integration with related teams.

Client facing technical consultant building client tooling to manage their content and workflows. Also delivered bespoke customer projects including fully AJAX WYSISYG website & store editor with payments integration.