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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 support.Director-level role, reported to CEO, member of senior leadership team. Operated as a manager of managers and senior engineers, fostering a culture of delivery, quality and collaboration. Defined engineering standards leading to a decrease in cycle time, dramatic improvements to code quality and platform reliability.• 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.• Launched a real-time data sync infrastructure handling up to 1M requests per day• Migrated to a new major version for a mission-critical partner's API• Took the lead on SOC2 Type I and II audits (achieved on the first attempt)Tech stack: Python, Django, React, Terraform, GCP

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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 the idea of the "Operating System for Renting" and built a commercial, product and engineering strategy that would deliver innovative and delightful products to renters, landlords and property managers alike.Delivered consumer web and native mobile apps (Ruby / Rails / React / TypeScript / Next.js, React Native for iOS and Android), property management SaaS platform, oAuth powered API (Ruby / Rails), data warehouse pipelines and Looker reporting suite. Adopted no-code solutions to power fast innovation.Achievements included:• 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• Implemented career progression framework and proudly guided several team members to senior IC, management and leadership roles.I collaborated across the business at all levels from board, investors and advisors to working directly with customers, and whilst this role primarily involved achieving through others and using my technical skills to lead support the teams, I also kept my hand in with coding, delivery and data analytics.

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, architectural standards, service delivery and platform engineering.

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 strategy and coached on delivering quickly. • 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 architecture.I was selected for eBay's Emerging Leaders Program and received the 2014 "eBay Hero" award for people management and talent development.

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 and San Francisco. Fostered a top-flight engineering culture with a relentless focus on quality, pair programming as the norm and doubled the size of the team.Venture backed, Shutl was acquired by eBay in November 2013. I was part of the team that worked on the engineering, retail, systems, facilities and IT due diligence.

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, content, customer services and business intelligence.The Hut Group is the largest sports nutrition supplier in Europe, as well as the largest health and beauty retailer and a top-three entertainments retailer in the UK.

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. Alongside the CEO we started the online business in 2005, sold at a valuation of £40m two years later and grew revenue double digits every year following. On The Beach is now a major UK travel agent and one of the UK's most successful ruby startups. They IPO'd in 2015.

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