Steven Rutherford Email & Phone Number

Christchurch, Nz

Christchurch Hq With Work From Home Days

Leading product growth and technology by launching several B2B prototypes to customers increasing revenue and making us more scalable. I combine this with writing our technology strategy and scaling the technology team while I accelerate their career. I led forming the hiring strategy for our ten person organization and executed on it to double the team and accelerate us towards key business objectives. We provide Kiwis with a weekly meal plan, complete with recipes and a list of ingredients. The recipes they select can either be self shopped, collected or home delivered from your favourite supermarkets.We do this with a blend of Data Engineering and Modern Web Technology.

Remote Fully Distributed Team

𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁I led multiple early stage startup technology teams across AU/NZ and USA through formation, team scaling, product deliveries & branding launches.I worked with several Paloma's clients forming requirements and establishing 2-4 person teams targeting their business deliverables, on success growing some teams to 20 people.𝗗𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀My Clients are across several sectors• Bakkt - I was first engineer from Paloma to join and over 18 months gradually grew the engineering team to 20 people. I managed 4 teams of Mobile, 2x Backend and Web teams.• Super Rewards - I established a small team and led them towards our goal of a consumer mobile app and rebranding their company to be Grow My Money.• SKU IQ - I selected the first people to help accelerate SKU's integration goals, growing their revenue with TikTok Partnership deliverables and expanded this into a multiple team engagement of 10 people.• Taper - Managed the 6 person technology team for AU's Made-To-Measure startup of 4 Engineers taking a new innovative technology driven platform to suit measurement to market.I enhanced Paloma's engineering organization by:• Developing the interview process by building guidelines and conducting hiring decisions.• Publishing Staff and Principal Engineering roles to support growth opportunities for the company and staff.• Sponsoring an AWS Study Group and having multiple engineers pass AWS certifications.• Establishing Engineering Management processes so we can grow our team as we scale the businessI grew our people by:• Promoting our first Staff Engineers, guiding them in the formation of their role across clients.• Coached and Mentored several Software Engineers towards their Senior promotion.

Remote Fully Distributed Team

𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁I grew a team from being the first backend hire to scaling it up to leading 20 people across multiple teams.𝗗𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀• I was the first backend engineer hired for a client, I personally delivered Transfers and Payment functionality in a Pre-MVP Banking Startup using Java 15 and SpringBoot.• I used this established trust to grow this engagement for Paloma over a year by hiring & managing a further 10 backend engineers.• I led multiple teams across their implementation of deliverables spanning deposits, withdrawals, bitcoin, peer-to-peer transfers, and many other areas of core digital banking.• I attended several external 1-1's and workshops to elevate my skills and transform myself from software engineer to a great engineering manager.

London, United Kingdom

I built an Innovative product to increase customer engagement called "Year in Review" for Nectar loyalty card customers.I was a lead consultant of a 25 person delivery team, forming miniture teams around features required from the Nectar Marketing team.𝗗𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀• I personally delivered solutions with SpringBoot Java Microservices run on Kubernetes users for year in review a consumer engagement initiative for all 6million UK users. • I Enhanced monitoring and alerting systems to support 6 million UK customers.• I worked in Java 8+, Spring, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Terraform, AWS, Kanban, CircleCI.

London, United Kingdom

I built teams that took a prototype data engineering system to scale by forming process around requirements and conducting hundreds of interviews to hire staff across 15 squads.

London, United Kingdom

I formed my early career gaining skills contributing to several technology and tech lead roles across my 7 years at SLI. This formed the foundations of full stack development, infrastructure and near real time systems focused within Ecommerce sector clients across the globe.𝗥𝗼𝗹𝗲𝘀- Tech Lead Engineer in London on SLI's largest Client Next a multi-million pound ARR account.- Java Software Engineer building SaaS search for 800 retailers globally.- Lead Integration Engineer launching integrations with Magento to unlock new revenue streams.- Client Facing Tech Lead of customer focused engineering teams.- Client Facing Engineer building search frontends for 40+ customers.

Bachelor'S Degree

High School