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Values
Through 12 years of professional experience in software delivery and leadership roles, I have found that good software is delivered through close customer collaboration and a happy workforce. Guided by the Lean and Agile philosophies, I continuously seek opportunities to learn and improve. My commitment to continuous improvement and respect for people fosters an environment that fuels innovation, collaboration, and growth. I firmly believe that empathy towards customers is essential for all team members, as is the ability to respond quickly to their demands through practices like DevOps and continuous deployment.
Experience
2023-Now Principal Software Engineer @ Motability Operations
Delivering the Motability Scheme online account to our 700,000+
customers allowing them to manage their lease online. Improving software
delivery and engineering practices across our digital product teams.
Responsible for: Leading teams, coaching, technical architecture
and stack, operations, innovation. Hands-on.
2022-2023 Principal Technical Consultant @ Waracle
Strategy and innovation for some of the UK's most pioneering clean tech
startups and largest financial services and energy providers.
Responsible for: Helping to grow account relationships, developing the
brand as a leader in thought leadership, leading consulting engagements,
supporting sales & pre-sales.
2016-2022 Lead Technical Consultant @ Thoughtworks
Large scale technology modernisation, capability development and digital
product development for some of UK's leading groceries, mobility, legal
and business solutions brands.
Responsible for: Leading teams,
performance reviews and coaching, technical architecture and stack,
operations. Hands-on.
2015-2016 Chief Technology Officer @ Lenio
Keeping the spirit of giving spare change to charities alive in a
digital and cashless society by automatically rounding-up purchases
through banking integrations.
Responsible for: Hiring and managing
technology staff, delivering investment prototypes. Hands-on.
2012-2015 Head of Mobile @ Powa Technologies
Delivering innovative omni-channel retail experiences and mobile payment
solutions for customers and businesses.
Responsible for: Hiring and
managing multiple mobile teams, providing mobile development, testing
and release capabilities across iOS & Android. Hands-on.
2011-2012 Android Developer @ BirdGuides
Building the next generation of apps for bird watchers.
Responsible
for: Developing & releasing Android apps. Hands-on.
Skills
Management & Leadership
- People first
- 121s
- Coaching & mentoring
- Wellbeing & culture
- Performance reviews
- Interviews
- DevEx
- Lean management
- OKRs
- Engineering management
- Lean product management
- Team modelling & financial forecasting
- Job requirements
- Technical leadership
- Technical strategy
- Solution selection
- Presentations
Practices & Techniques
- Customer focused
- Product engineering
- Customer support
- Incidents, On call
- Analytics, Metrics, KPIs
- Shifting left
- TDD, TBD, Pair programming
- DevSecOps, FinOps
- Separation of deployment & release, Feature toggles
- Testing in production
- Continuous delivery
- CI/CD
- Continuous deployments
- Infrastructure as code
- Compliance as code
- GitOps
- Agile
- Inception, Discovery, Planning, Retrospectives, Standups
- Event storming
- Lightweight threat modelling
Technology
- Generalist
- Java, TypeScript, C#, Kotlin, Swift, Scala, Bash, Willing to learn
- Full stack
- Backend: Spring, Quarkus, Express, ASP.NET Core
- Responsive Web: React, Next.js, Astro
- Mobile: iOS, Android
- Evolutionary architecture
- DDD, Micro services, Micro frontends, Mobile micro features, Serverless, Messaging, Stream processing
- ADRs
- Cloud platforms
- AWS, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, Lambda
- Operations
- Production deployments
- Monitoring & alerting
- Blameless post-mortems
- Operational excellence
Books that have influenced my thinking
Managing for Happiness, Leaders Eat Last, Superteams, Lean Enterprise, Accelerate, Project to Product, Team Topologies, The Phoenix Project, The Goal, QED
Education
2006-2010 MSci Theoretical Physics @Imperial College London
Studying the universe and gravity with computational methods.