Adarga builds powerful analytical software, automating time-intensive tasks for our customers, learning by reading and understanding data at speeds humans are unable to achieve.

Re-organising and expanding the teams building the infrastructure and release automation pipeline for the 10X Banking platform; a global, multi-region, high availability, secure, micro-services SAAS solution.

Global Engineering Lead for the Agile Hub, a new initiative with the aim to modernise IT and engineering practices in Shell. Built a 200+ engineering team, in 3 regions (Europe, N-America, India), 5 locations, working on 20+ products. Set technical strategy for a diverse range of projects (supply chain, data science, trading-related), and aligned technology efforts with UX and service design. Mentored and coached technical leads and engineers, and built proof-of-concept prototypes to help choose technologies (GraphQL, GRPC, Kubernetes). Technical lead of a new data science initiative, using modern (cloud) data science technologies (Kubeflow, Julia, Tensorflow)

Headed up the technical design and implementation of the new big data initiative for product placement optimization. Worked on making an in-house-developed machine learning optimization process production ready and deployable and scalable on Kubernetes running in AWS

Advised major corporations on how to optimise their Software Development Lifecycle and modernise their technology stack. Helped them to define their technical strategy. Hands-on capability building in Enterprise Architecture, Microservices, Cloud (AWS/Azure), Agile Development, online gaming and Internet of Things. Hands-on development & integration work included developing products on several projects with Java, React, Go, AWS, Azure, MongoDB, Embedded C, PIC18

Defined and executed the technical strategy for the company and helped to develop action plan for Series A funding. Built, managed and trained the technical & art team and established Devops for 24/7 support (AWS/Puppet/Docker). Hands-on development work included development of VoIP module in C# for the Unity3D game engine, backend development in Go, Java, PostgreSQL, and the development of a Virtual Reality demo application with Oculus 1.

Led a team of 60 in Engineering (50) and QA (10), with 11 direct reports. Hired, trained, motivated, and oversaw the performance of front-end/back-end engineers, technical leads, technical artists, 3D/2D artists, testers, QA Manager, and third party technical vendors. Defined, communicated and executed technical vision and delivery strategy, encompassing technology selection, build vs. buy decisions, staffing allocation, and process improvements. Technical advisor to management team and business leaders in aligning IT with business goals. Hands on development and code reviewing for back and front end teams (Java, Scala, Objective-C, AWS, Unity3D).Built technical solutions for scaleable client-server communication.

Designed and built metadata backend. (Java, Scala, Cassandra, AWS)

Technical architect of Publishing services, the department responsible for the aggregation and delivery of program metadata within the BBC

Team Leader of the software developer team, developing the next generation volunteering information management software for the voluntary and community sector in the UK. A key part of the highly successful www.do-it.org.uk project established in 2000.Set up Agile development team and introduced lean software development practices.

Researcher and developer for BBC iPlayer project: BBC's catch-up television solution; up to seven days, downloadable/streaming content after transmission. Java full stack development with MySQL, RESTFul APIs and HTML5

Developing reference software for the European Interactive Television Standard (ETSI), developed by BBC R&D Kingswood Warren, published by ETSI as PCF (Portable Content Format)

Design and implementation of a modular content management system (J2EE, Spring Framework and PostgreSQL) to deliver and store standardised metadata (METS, IMS and Dublin Core) for an educational IPTV platform.

Development of BBC IPTV platform on KIT (Kingston Interactive Television), plus content management system and playout system for over 5000 households.

Created world’s first Java/Flash MX cross-platform implementation for professional audio manipulation AudiologoDesign and programming of a visual reorganization tool for 30,000 employees of the multi-national ING banking group ING.

Dutch public broadcaster considered the most "culturally radical" group on Dutch television.Projects:- Senior Technical Engineer for live internet broadcasting events including biggest Dutch festivals: Pinkpop, Lowlands- Open source development on content management system MMBase (Java-based open source content management system)- Design and implementation of automatic audio, video encoding/upload pipeline for the biggest audio and video music internet archive

Projects:- Designed world's first IP-enabled production truck for live-streaming Internet broadcasting- Live internet streaming events: UN Climate Conference (COP6), Pinkpop (largest Dutch pop festival), Lowlands (120k+ Festival)