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Started and grew the business until its eventual sale to Accenture in 2021.From tier-one retail to financial services, and in some of the largest technology-led projects in government, Infinity Works is unlocking the value of the next industrial revolution.We are a tech company. We are full stack engineers, cloud architects, data scientists, and we’re all passionate about working together towards digital transformation.Founded in 2014, there are now more than 650 of us, working in locations across the UK – listed by the Financial Times as one of the UK’s leading management consultants.

I was responsible for ensuring that all SkyBet systems were 'fast'. This involved working across the entire tech stack, from tweaking the Linux kernel to CSS selectors and everything in between. It also involved working across the entire product life-cycle, from designing systems for performance and building proof-of-concepts up-front, through to in-life performance monitoring and capacity planning. I line managed a team of performance engineers working across the entire business. With the help of my team I managed to embed a performance focussed culture where performance is seen as an essential success factor in everything the company builds. Sky Bet under went significant growth in traffic during my tenure and the team made many significant improvements despite this. Delivering performance improvements earned the team the trust and respect of people across the business.I was heavily involved in a project to rebuild the SkyBet mobile site during which we managed to achieve an order of magnitude increase in performance over our desktop site. In order to achieve this I helped the team build a performance-focussed codebase called 'tiny'. In addition to performance gains tiny has enabled the development teams to deliver products quicker and more easily. The mobile product we delivered went on to win an industry award as best mobile sports betting site.During my last 6 months at Sky I helped run an infrastructure project that aimed to automate the build and deployment of all SkyBet infrastructure using tools such as Chef and Salt Stack. I was part of a multi-disciplinary team made up of colleagues from infrastructure, ops, dev-ops and software engineering. My role was to bring some engineering best practice in the form of source control, unit testing, continuous integration etc, and embed these in the team.

I was responsible for the technical strategy, architecture and quality of systems developed by a 30+ strong team of technical staff. I was tasked with crafting innovative system designs to deliver quality and value to the organisation, whilst ensuring our deliverables met long term strategic goals.To ensure the whole team were adhering to best practices I would regularly coach and mentor people, hold technical workshops and act as a technical authority. I usually helped out in areas where knowledge in the team was lacking or where we were working on something totally new. I always led by example, never afraid to get my hands dirty! For example i helped introduce scrum as a way to improve the predictability of our projects.I proposed, championed and delivered an innovative solution to improve the hosting capabilities of Orange Digital by migrating to AWS. This allowed the company to reduce costs, increase quality and stability and gave us a chance to modernise our software stack.

I was responsible for developing services and enablers for the Orange web and mobile portals. This covered a range of technologies which include PHP, MySQL, Apache, Linux, XML, XSLT, Javascript, CSS and HTML. I was involved with all phases of the software lifecycle from requirements gathering through to live support and also spend time providing guidance to other team members.

My work was primarily focussed on developing web applications for the facilities management industry. This involved working with large blue-chip companies (3M, Esso, Toyota) in the UK, USA and Canada. The web apps were built using a propriety server side language called ‘TerrapinScript’ that was based upon javascript, used a MySQL database and also extensive client side functionality in JS and CSS.In addition to web applications I also developed Windows applications aimed at the home user and small business markets. These used a variety of technologies including C++, C, MFC, Win32, COM, TCP/IP and provided implementations of many internet communication protocols such as HTTP, POP3, SMTP and FTP.