- Ensured customers of the platform were able to keep pace with a rapidly changing landscape, building platform support for model ensembles, deep learning and generative AI models, contributing to cumulative experiment wins of hundreds of millions of dollars.- Through the development of a cohesive multi-year technical strategy: - Improved platform user experience and reduced maintenance cost: Responded to industry commoditization in the machine learning infrastructure space by driving a re-architecture of the platform to take advantage of Google Cloud managed services and deprecate redundant in-house components. - Enabled reassignment of 2 engineers to higher value projects: Identified the opportunity for the team to move up the stack by outsourcing the management of the compute platform to another better-placed team.- As part of a balanced portfolio, placed measured bets on more ambitious projects, one of which resulted in a cutting-edge profiling and load testing product to determine the optimal serving configuration for ML models, reducing average time to productionize an ML model from 2 weeks to 2 hours and delivering cost savings of over $5 million annually.- Managed between 5 and 14 engineers including helping multiple engineers achieve challenging staff-level promotions.- Efficiently reorganized the team as business needs changed, including growing the team to two squads and hiring an engineering manager to report to me.

Consulting for Etsy in the ML infrastructure space, helping deliver a cloud migration from on-prem datacenter to Google Cloud

Leading a team migrating a monolithic build system to improve developer productivity

Working at Innit, a startup in Silicon Valley, helping to grow their engineering organization.

Working for a large financial services company helping the organization to transition to a more agile way of working. Technical Principal for the account and tech lead across delivery teams building software on a Java stack.

Working for a fashion retail company, as an agile process coach. Embedded within teams helping them to improve the way they work through focus on lean/agile values and principles, and practices around continuous improvement.

Several engagements:Morrisons Plc - Tech lead/developer from the start on a project to develop a Java/JavaScript HTML5 tablet-based application to streamline stock re-ordering in store.Online financial services provider - Technical principal for the account overseeing a number of project teams further developing existing online offeringsGovernment agency #1 - Tech lead on a Java project to deliver an enhanced invoicing solution for suppliers. Developer/tech lead on a Java/Clojure project delivering a new technical platform for the organisation.Government agency #2 - Architectural consultancy for a large government programme.

Telecoms company - Tech lead/developer on a Scala project to deliver a moderation solution for user-generated content. Consultancy on Continuous Delivery practices on a large programme of work.

AutoTrader - Java developer on a project to develop the existing website for used and new car sales.Government agency - Consultancy on a large government programme.

Trainline Ltd. - .NET developer on a distributed agile project across the UK and India.

Online financial services provider - .NET developer

.NET developer on a project to rebuild and migrate from a legacy mainframe application that was responsible for financial accounting for personal lines insurance products.Tech lead and developer on project to build the first online "quote and buy" website for Swinton Insurance including integration with 3rd party insurance aggregators and the existing quotation system.Technical design manager role included oversight over 6+ teams of developers, architecture and setting strategic technical direction for the company.