• Grown a globally distributed engineering team to deliver reliable, secure and scalable payments and data products across the whole of Europe• Supported the growth of engineering managers through coaching, mentoring and career development • Driven cross company improvements to hiring, on call and incident management processes

Responsible for leading software engineering and architecture disciplines for the UKs federated digital identity solution (GOV.UK Verify).• Setting and delivering technology strategy for GOV.UK Verify• Line management and coaching of engineering leads • Led introduction of continuous deployment increasing deployment frequency to 10+ times per day• Collaborated with product and design leads to create GOV.UK Verify product roadmap• Defined recruitment process for engineers at a variety of levels (e.g. lead, and junior)• Contributed to organisation wide engineering best practice guides• Scaled team to 30 technologists

Agile Java developer at Sky Network Services (Formerly Easynet)Worked as a member of an agile team that practiced pair programming, TDD and continuous integration to deliver Java applications used to provision and manage BSkyB’s broadband and telephony products using technologies included:Java, REST, Oracle, Xpath, Lucene, Unix, Team City, JQuery, Mercurial, Ubuntu, Totally Lazy.

Graduate Scheme based on four 6 month placements in the following positions:Quality Assurance and TestingI worked closely with developers and business analysts to create automated tests using Concordion. As well performing manual exploratory testingSoftware developer (Java)Involved in the development of several key systems for broadband customer management using a number of agile development techniques Systems Administrator - Entertainment Server Support.In this role I was required ensure the operation of a number of business critical Unix (solaris) systems. This included troubleshooting existing systems, managing user access and building new systems.Business AnalystWorked alongside developers, project managers and 3rd party suppliers to define requirements and provide technical analysis to an agile java development team.