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Manchester, England, GB

Manchester, England, GB

Birdie is the leading home healthcare technology platform that aims to radically transform the lives of older adults. Its all-in-one solution supports millions of care visits every month, equipping care providers with the tools they need to deliver better quality care and improve efficiency across most day-to-day operations. Birdie is B-Corp certified.

Startup advisor and software engineer covering Pre-seed, Seed and Series A+ businesses. Founder, CEO and CTO coaching, technical vision and strategy, roadmaps, software development, hiring and engineering excellence.

• Led four engineering teams at Stacker, a no-code startup backed by Initialized, Y Combinator and a16z. Responsible for application and feature development, platform, infrastructure, architecture and.
• Led multiple teams covering development, support and platform engineering
• Responsible for technical design and architecture
• Managed managers and ICs, mentored both first time and experienced technical managersAchievements included:
• Set technical standards and practices leading to a dramatic increase in code quality and reliability
• Lowered cycle time and increased deployments by 5x.

Remote

• Built product and engineering team from 0 to 25, making life better for the world’s renters. Launched the business in the UK and the US, responsible for roadmap across product, engineering and data science.I conceived.
• Launched mobile web and iOS / Android native apps in UK and US
• Launched SaaS property management platform in collaboration with one of the UK's largest property managers
• Built and operated a highly-available microservices architecture
• Implemented continuous deployment, delivering 100s of changes a week.
• Fostered an inclusive, high-performing and collaborative team, strongly aligned across the business

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Working as part of the Co-op Digital transformation programme, working on the Co-op's new membership platform.
• Tech lead for the membership website - a high profile site for 4m members and the subject of national TV, cinema, radio and email campaigns
• Implemented continuous delivery within a complex architecture which was not naturally "agile"
• Delivered well-validated and high-quality products, features and enhancementsI was heavily involved in recruitment, team development and agile coaching as well as pitching in with the engineering community of practice.

London, United Kingdom

• Senior manager, leading a group of twenty engineers, designers, analysts and managers over three mature agile teams. I drove innovation in our platform, design solutions, helped develop new customers, collaborated on.
• Introduced continuous deployment and a DevOps mentality, deploying 100 times a week.
• Led migration to a microservices architecture with a focus on quality, refactoring and BDD/TDD.
• Tripled the team with recruitment, talent development and performance management. In addition to running engineering, I also contributed to product management and vision, business development and solutions.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for engineering, delivery and architecture across multiple teams, and line management of the engineering group across software engineers, platform engineers and designers.Managed the build of Shutl’s US technology base to completion, including our integration as delivery partner for eBay Now, with launches in New York, Chicago, Dallas, Boston.

London, United Kingdom

Created the DevOps team at Shutl, transforming a reactive systems group into a pro-active team that is focused on business value, is pragmatic with risk and aligned to the product development roadmap and engineering efforts. Introduced agile practices and test-driven development, and lead the successful completion and rollout of V2 of the Shutl platform.

London, United Kingdom

Building and leading world-class delivery practices at Evently, an early-stage SaaS startup in the event space. I helped create and run a high-performance team focusing on customer value and flow.

Agile project manager and software engineering manager, collaborating on the agile transformation of the 50+ person IT team. With my team I worked primarily in operations, logistics and warehousing where we deployed a third-party WMS solution to our global distribution and warehouse network, shipping 100,000 units a day. I also ran projects in finance.

Manchester, United Kingdom

I started at Setfire as a developer and soon grew into a leadership role and was promoted to the board. I led multiple technical teams with 10+ reports, and worked with internal and external stakeholders to drive value and to delight customers.I was developer #1 and the ongoing technical leader for Setfire Media’s great success story: On The Beach Travel..

Promoted to leadership role - running a team of 5 software developers on client projects.

Web development in Perl and JavaScript at a small web agency.

I taught myself to code at school and worked on small projects: paid, volunteer or just for fun/learning.

Ma, Modern European History

Awarded scholarship, graduated with Distinction; thesis entitled 'Suicide and the Suicidal: Madness, Self-Murder and the Victorian Asylum'.

Ba(Hons), History

Graduated with First Class Honours; thesis entitled '"This fatal disease of civilised peoples": Suicide, Rationality and European Cultural.

'A' Levels, History, Latin, English Literature, General Studies