My time as a Principal Software Engineer has taken me across a variety of opportunities, and exposed me to a variety of challenges which I have led my teams through leading to positive outcomes for my team members and our organisation.Since June 2024, I have been leading an engineering team in Liberty's Surety organization.From July 2023 to June 2024, I acted as the engineering lead within a three stranded Product-Architecture-Engineering team to help identify how Liberty IT can best help Liberty Mutual progress the complex challenges faced in modernising our complex policy eco-system. This initially involved in depth analysis and plenty of relationship building, before transitioning into a role scaling out multiple squads of engineers to complete the activities we had identified we needed to undertake. In this role I act to support the technical leads of the individual squads in navigating our technical landscape.Prior to that, from April 2022 to June 2023; I led a team of up to twelve engineers in the delivery of a quoting API for a Bancassurance partner in Western Europe. In this role, I acted with several solutions engineers to advance Liberty Mutual's global API capability; and provided leadership to multiple teams in doing so. This role required me to have an in depth understanding of our requirements, which I needed to both help the team navigate and convert to API contracts. This engagement culminated with me leading the handover of this capability to an in market team for go forward operation.My first principal role entailed leading the handover of our Kotlin & AWS based micro-service ecosystem to a team of contractors for continued maintenance. This presented a challenge due to the domain and technical knowledge that I needed to support others in transferring, but it ultimately resulted in a positive outcome.

Working on a "product" team focussing on development of customer & policy admin functions for "Group Accident and Health" insurance products, utilising Kotlin & Spring Boot, deployed to AWS.Playing a leading role in the architecture, design and implementation of a new system component in AWS Step Functions, AWS Lambda & Typescript.Promotion via 'self nominated promotion' pathway, transitioned to a new team a few days prior to commencement.Additional responsibilities: Departmental cyber security co-lead, portfolio cyber security guild co-lead, "Women in Technology" working group member

Continuation of graduate role following promotion via 'self nominated promotion' pathway.Additional responsibilities: Departmental cyber security co-lead, "Women in Technology" working group member

Graduate role.Worked on delivery and support of a cloud based insurance platform for Liberty Mutual's international personal auto/motor insurance operations.Additional responsibilties: "Women in Technology" working group member

Sixty-two week industrial placement from Queen's University Belfast. Lasting from the end of June of 2017 through to the August of 2018.Worked on a team defining, supporting, documenting and building guidance, tooling and templates relating to best-practice application of cloud-native micro-service architectures across the enterprise.

Industrial placement totalling thirty-four weeks: fifteen weeks on placement from Belfast Metropolitan College, followed by a nineteen week extension.Worked on internal developer tooling: development and support in Node.js and AngularJS.