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WorldPay (November 2017 - September 2019): Technical Lead Enterprise Data PlatformDelivery of a set of cloud native decision-based, data-driven services which use machine learning to help drive the most efficient processing throughout the transaction stream. Responsible for strategic advisory expertise around cloud operating model, reference cloud native architecture and roadmap development for cloud adaption at scale. Adidas (June 2017 – November 2017): Technical Lead of Digital Cloud PlatformsAdidas are running a large, complex infrastructure on-premises and have initiated a full migration to AWS by the end of 2019. I was responsible for the advisory and delivery of Adidas Open Digital Platform initiative to enable this migration at scale.

Responsible for the automation, deployment and HA of developer tooling for 17,000 developers throughout the bank. Tasked with the challenge of installing a self-serve approach to deployment tools, remote build agents were configured on AWS via direct connect to dynamically expand capacity during peak build & deployment hours.

Design and delivery of a high availability big-data FinTech analytic engine on AWS across multiple availability zones and regions. Application ingests ~35gb of data per day from 1000s of data points, uses predictive algorithms running on Spark to calculate finance consensus on listed companies.

Responsible for the migration and development of cloud strategy throughout the Lastminute Group. Role entailed analysis of existing applications, specifying standardised self-healing architecture and the delivery of a board range scalable, secure IaaS / PaaS / SaaS offerings.

Assisted the secondary e-trader team in applying agile methodologies, played a key role in technical architectural decisions and the migration of their single dealer multi asset secondary market platform to a Service Oriented Architecture . Delivered a white label solution with real-time pricing to hundreds of users across 5 global retail and investment institutions.

Played a key role in developing a core real-time implementation of a statistical, artificially intelligent mathematical algorithmic based ad platform utilised by a leading financial institutions.

Trading Performance:•2005: +3.15% •2006: +12.36% •2007: +14.49% •2008: +14.83% •2009: +11.18% •2010: +15.15% •2011: +12.69% •2012: +8.69%

Tasked with leading UI development of a feature rich, real-time market data analytics platform enabling data integration, distribution and statistical numerical aggregation over an enterprise-wide deployment.

Position within the Equity Credit Risk Systems team providing counterparty risk analysis development and a workflow for the application of new limits and ratings.

Appointed to coordinate the development of an account management portal administering a multi-tier architecture, allowing customers to amend account details, modify subscriptions and securely credit their account via an integrated payment gateway.

Responsible for developing online company incorporation and share capital allotment submission as part of the government modernisation programme - The Companies Act 2006.

Fixed Income dealer with primary responsibility for derivative / FX swap trading. Experienced in German government debt working with both the liability driven investment and portfolio management teams.