Zoopla

Senior Full Stack (Backend) Engineer - Contract

OCT 2021 – PRESENT

Led a major reimplementation of the Sold House Prices functionality, reducing price updates from 30 days to 24 hours by utilising the AWS Accept, Queue and Process design pattern

Migrated a legacy monolith email alerts system into 3 event-driven microservices, improving the efficiency of scaling horizontally at peak processing times

Developed serverless APIs to integrate with third-party real-estate agents, allowing for instant ingestion of property status updates using AWS Lambda and EventBridge

Key technologies: TypeScript, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, SQS, SNS, S3

Superdry

Senior Full Stack (Backend) Engineer - Contract

APR 2021 – OCT 2021

Led a major internal refactor of APIs using Serverless with API Gateway request validations via Swagger/OpenAPI Specifications

Delivered a migration project of 21 legacy websites into event-driven microservices, using AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, S3 and API Gateway

Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines to ensure system resilience and performance at scale, allowing for integration tests to run on the real AWS environment

Key technologies: TypeScript, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, SQS, SNS, S3

Cinch

Senior Full Stack (Backend) Engineer - Contract

JAN 2021 – APR 2021

Migrated backend systems into microservices using DynamoDB, SQS and API Gateway

Led the development of an asynchronous vehicle tracking system using AWS EventBridge

Reduced platform's test running time by 60% by reducing dependencies and build times

Developed internal tools used to manage vehicles: photos, metadata, returns and price reductions

Introduced CloudWatch Dashboards and alerts to allow for performance monitoring

Developed serverless APIs to manage third-party vehicles, resulting in ~120% stock increase

Key technologies: TypeScript, NodeJS, AWS, DynamoDB, EventBridge, API Gateway, SQS

Discovery

Senior Full Stack (Frontend) Engineer - Contract

JUL 2020 – JAN 2021

Launched Discovery+ to an active audience of 1m+ users across the Nordics, Japan and the UK

Overhauled key customer journeys using React 16.10 to build an atomic design component library

Spearheaded development of frontend and backend services, with exposure to all layers of application and development, across multifunctional teams of UX, QA and developers

Improved performance by ~40% - debugging slow components and utilising lazy rendering

Increased test coverage to 90% using Jest with snapshot testing, Enzyme and Storybook

Directed agile sessions, specifying stakeholder requirements and standardised code reviews

Key technologies: TypeScript, React, NodeJS, Redux, Jest, Enzyme

Financial Times

Senior Full Stack (Backend/Frontend) Engineer - Contract

JUL 2018 – JUL 2020

Orchestrated core-API refactors used to send 2m+/day business-critical emails and breaking news

Implemented authenticated, RESTful and highly scalable APIs in NodeJS and MongoDB

Designed a reusable component library in TypeScript, React 16.8 and Redux

Engineered an end-to-end testing framework across the full platform (20+ APIs, 5 UI Clients), ensuring breaking changes are blocked from being released, using Docker and CircleCI (Orbs)

Reduced platform's flaky test occurrences by 90% by improving tests and reducing dependencies

Coached and mentored junior developers to extend technical knowledge of core technologies

Revamped the analytics system to track email sends and open rates using NodeJS and React

Key technologies: JavaScript, Docker, Heroku, NodeJS, React, Redux, MongoDB, RabbitMQ

BBC

Senior Full Stack (Frontend) Engineer - Contract

JAN 2018 – JUL 2018

Launched BBC Sounds, with 2.9m+/week active users using React, NodeJS and Redux

Integrated recommendation engines to customise user experienced and content discovery

Created a composable component library using atomic design for consistent platform layouts

Reduced manual testing by 80% by mentoring QA engineers to introduce an automated test framework and integrating it into CI/CD (CirlceCI)

Achieved a 92% test coverage by using TDD and BDD using Mocha, Chai, Enzyme and Gherkin

Integrated the A/B testing and analytics to generate insightful business impact reports

Improved mobile performance by 20% by implementing GraphQL APIs to reduce data fetching

Key technologies: AWS, React, NodeJS, CircleCI, GraphQL, Redux, Ruby on Rails, MongoDB

Causeway

Senior Full Stack (Backend) Engineer - Contract

FEB 2017 – JAN 2018

Built a framework to allow Fortune 500 customers businesses to connect their APIs across all their disciplines, generating a £5m+/month revenue

Team lead in API development in Ruby on Rails and NodeJS (ES6, NodeJS 8, Promises, Streams)

Mentoring and training developers to improve technical knowledge in JavaScript and Ruby on Rails

Simplified product integration by packaging portable software using Docker, RabbitMQ, MongoDB and NodeJS, reducing integration time from 1½ days to 15 minutes

Reduced developer onboarding by 30% by introducing a documentation afternoon once a fortnight

Key technologies: MongoDB, RabbitMQ, MySQL, AWS, Ruby on Rails, NodeJS, CircleCI, Docker

TotalJobs

Senior Full Stack (Backend/Frontend) Engineer

FEB 2016 – FEB 2017

Delivered an Identity Resolution Platform to web scrape 10m+ resume data and merging them with structured and natural language processing APIs using NodeJS, AWS, RabbitMQ and PostgreSQL

Setup a highly customisable build pipeline leveraging Jenkins, Docker and NodeJS

Managed multiple product hackathons to explore analyse trade-offs between technologies

Mentored junior developers in in Object-Oriented, Functional Programming and Web Development using various technologies, most notably NodeJS and Ruby on Rails

Key technologies: NodeJS, Ruby on Rails, AWS, Docker, MongoDB, MySQL

PhotoBox

Senior Full Stack (Backend) Engineer

JUL 2015 – FEB 2016

Integrated BrainTree’s new payment system, processing £1m+/week in Christmas period

Rewrote a Ruby on Rails monolith into reliable, RabbitMQ-driven NodeJS microservices

Introduced fullstack microservices and backend APIs in NodeJS and Ruby on Rails

Engineered the new Sticky9.com checkout system with Ruby on Rails, React and PostgreSQL

Eliminated traffic-related outages by enabling autoscaling of web servers and queue workers

Key technologies: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, AWS, Sidekiq

Simply Business

Ruby on Rails Developer

FEB 2015 – JUL 2015

Developed a financial tracking system as an input to product recommendation engines using Ruby on Rails, MongoDB and AWS (EC2, SQS), tracking 100k+/day user events

Organised and led weekly agile sessions and working lunches to advocate TDD practices using RSpec, Cucumber and pair programming

Key technologies: Ruby on Rails, AWS (EC2, SQS), Slack Bots, RSpec, Cucumber

City University London

Ruby on Rails Developer

JAN 2014 – FEB 2015

Velti

Ruby on Rails Developer

APR 2012 – JUN 2014

Zaggora.com

Consultant Software Engineer

JAN 2012 – APR 2012

Hackney Council

Application Developer

FEB 2011 – JAN 2012