Simon Poulston Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

Remote

• Redeemeum is the service provider for Boson Protocol.PORTAL: Decentralised commerce in the MetaverseOutcomes:
• 15 fashion brands featuring $4 million worth of physical products launched in Decentraland
• Over 5000 protocol transactions since contract deployment with 50X user growth from November to April
• Coached a novice agile team into a highly efficient team showing sprint-on-sprint improvement of velocity and engagement
• Built a successful delivery function across the organisation, championing best practices and scrum/XP methodologies

London, England, United Kingdom

• MLex: Application delivering market insight and comment on regulatory riskOutcomes:
• Migration of legacy platforms to cloud hosted solution saving approx. 80% in infrastructure costs
• Release cadence reduced from monthly to daily, by utilising infrastructure as code and CI/CD best practices
• Average cycle time of features reduced from weeks to days
• 80%+ Test coverage across codebase

• Tolley: Industry leading content platform for tax professionalsOutcomes:
• Enable product to realise their roadmap by enabling fast and resilient delivery of features
• Release cadence reduced from avg. 2 months to weekly, by utilising CI/CD best practices
• Average cycle time of features reduced from months to days
• 80%+ Test coverage across codebase
• A/B tests allowing for canary release of features before releasing to all customersRedaction via Machine LearningOutcomes:

I worked with the team to deliver high profile websites and applications for companies such as Hewlett Packard, Argos, Speedo and Santander. Working closely with account managers and clients, it was my responsibility to ensure our team delivered appropriate solutions on time to the required spec.

• Drupal development for clients including Peugeot, Deutsche Bank, The Scottish National Party
• Attended DrupalCon Paris, Copenhagen, Prague, London and was an active member of the Drupal open source community, participating and speaking at Drupal camps across the UK and Ireland
• Website development
• British Telecom first line support, second line support for ADSL and website development