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Bath, Gb

In May 2018 Cloudfind Ltd enacted a bold new strategy to take our existing technology and apply it to the affiliate marketing space. This involved repurposing our machine learning recommendation models to apply to a new dataset, recreating our SaaS app from scratch, and beginning to store collected data on a much larger scale.As CTO I oversaw designing and building a whole new data storage and processing pipeline, now taking information from many diverse sources and digesting the feeds into presentable results for our UI to serve to customers. We shrunk our team to the smallest workable unit, in order to meet business objectives, and this team succeeded in delivering a grand pivot into a successful business.

Bath, England, Gb

Bath, England, Gb

As technical CEO of Cloudfind I bring a holistic view of sales, marketing and technology to the company, taking a data-driven approach to sales channels, product design and technology development.

Bath, England, Gb

Building on my achievements as VP Engineering I worked alongside the CEO to define the product and technical strategy to bring Cloudfind to market, while continuing to strengthen the team so they can deliver a professional enterprise-grade product.

Bath, England, Gb

Lead the technical team to modernise an existing product, to enable rapid iterative development and bring new features to market with speed and quality. Guided and mentored the team on microservice development with a service-oriented architecture, fault tolerance and how to ensure correctness and availability in a distributed system.Ushered in a new era of DevOps at the company by planning and implementing transition to Docker containers on Kubernetes. Development is now stable, repeatable, and new services can be implemented and deployed by any developer on the team. Deployments now take seconds with zero downtime and reduced server costs to 30% of their previous level.Transitioned the data processing pipeline to a true multi-stage process and ported services to asynchronous IO delivering large gains in performance and stability.

I researched new products and markets in the container storage industry, using a data-driven approach to validate product ideas directly with the community.Conducted direct user interviews and testing to design and validate the next generation of software deployment technology.Worked in Python and Golang to prototype new products and test them with the market.

As a Founder I worked on the core product, a distributed fault-tolerant web hosting cluster. Designed core algorithms, business logic and frontend UI. As developers joined the team I began to manage daily workloads, co-ordinate a geographically distributed workforce and guide product decisions.As the company pivoted I worked with my co-Founder to define the bold new vision, then lead the team to deliver the MVP which enabled the company to raise its Series A funding.

Swindon, Wiltshire, Gb

After working as a major supplier to The Property Jungle, I took up a permanent role as lead developer in December 2009. The Property Jungle provides business software to estate agents and other companies in the property industry. I maintained and extended their in-house content distribution system, known as the App. The App aggregated property data from the estate agents’ on-premise or cloud-hosted inventory software and produced up-to-date websites. The App had a core content engine which allowed a design team to produce complicated and fully-featured websites without any programming knowledge.

Ripon, North Yorkshire, Gb

I joined Bronco Ltd and opened the open-source department, in order to widen the company’s capabilities and enter into the expanding E-commerce market. I worked on many bespoke PHP and MySQL E-commerce systems for a variety of customers, ranging from simple shopping carts to fully-featured e-shops and content management systems. I worked with the company’s design team to implement their designs using xHTML and CSS 2, and later as the design team expanded and began delivering HTML+CSS directly, I worked with them to ensure that their markup worked within the content engine we developed. The department grew to include two other developers for which I was the team leader and was a very successful part of the business. Throughout this time I designed and built the server infrastructure which ran the department and was the principal maintainer. I also worked on many internal projects to support the company’s SEO business, such as search engine aggregators, a content distribution network, a multi-variate split testing suite and a search indexing spider. Many of these projects formed complex distributed systems and ran across multiple localities.