Curriculum Vitae

Work

2022 - present Architect, Cirium

Architect accountable for the design of machine-to-machine interfaces (e.g. HTTP APIs, AMQP).

Areas focused on:

• Engage with stakeholders within the business and the wider organisation to gather requirements
  • These stakeholders include Sales, Product, Project, Data, SREs, and Security
  • Analyse requirements from the above to design solutions that meet the business needs
• Work with teams to understand where shared infrastructure/solutions may benefit the business
• Coordinate multiple teams to allow effective delivery
• Establish coding practices and drive technical direction amongst development teams
• Lead teams in the decomposition of issues to aid problem-resolution
• Effective documentation of design (e.g. HLDs)
• Evaluate new technologies and tools for upcoming projects and train teams in their usage
• Determine technical feasibility of upcoming projects

2020 - 2022 Principal Software Engineer, Cirium

Integrate the software and systems from the recently acquired Snowflake Software into the broader processes and systems of Cirium.

Areas focused on:

• Work across multiple teams within the department to design solutions to and solve complex technical problems
• Build out platform solutions which remove day-to-day complexity from engineers when writing software
• Work with architecture to gather requirements to future platform solutions
• Serve as an SME for streaming solutions, Java, and Spring within the department
• Lead the development of technical standards and review code to ensure they are followed
• Work with Security to ensure solutions met the requirements of the wider organisation
• Investigate new technologies and tools which might improve products in the future

2016 - 2020 Senior Software Developer, Snowflake Software Ltd.

Building cloud-based data processing and analysis pipelines for the Aviation industry.

Areas focused on:

• Infrastructure as code (AWS CloudFormation/Terraform)
• Cloud monitoring technologies (e.g. Datadog)
• Operation of out-of-hours support team
• Container orchestration and management (e.g. Kubernetes/Rancher/EC2 Container Service).
• Java micro-service application framework creation and operation
• Messaging technologies (e.g. Kafka)
• System architecture
• Event/Message driven systems

2012 - 2016 Software Developer, Snowflake Software Ltd.

Developing Java desktop applications and Java-based web services in an Agile environment.

Areas focused on:

• Agile software development
• Java desktop application development
• Spring Framework
• Enterprise Relational databases
• Team leadership
• Enterprise data processing systems
• Application servers (e.g. JBoss/Wildfly and Oracle Weblogic)

2011 Technical Intern, Netcraft

Internet services developer tasked with improving and extending the services offered by Netcraft.

Areas focused on:

• Perl development within large projects
• Internet security analysis (including threat detection and removal)

Education

2008 - 2012 Computer Science (1st class with Hons), Southampton University (School of Electronics and Computer Science)

Modules included:

• System Admin Tools & Techniques
• Data Structures & Algorithms
• Software Engineering Group Project
• Operating Systems
• Communications & Networks
• Software Analysis & Design
• Distributed Computing
• Database Systems
• Scripting languages
• Security & Information Technology

Skills

Behavioural

• Problem solving
• Coordination
• Attention to detail
• Leadership
• Communication
• Creativity

Cloud

Experience of a wide range of services across 3 major cloud providers

• AWS - 9 years (EC2, RDS, Redshift, S3, Lambda, Kinesis, IAM, SQS, Athena, WAF, Cloudformation, and others)
• Azure - 2 years
• GCP - 2 years

Programming Languages

• Java - 16 years experience (10 years professionally). Within that time I have written web applications, frameworks and desktop GUIs.
• Python - used frequently over the last 10 years

Web Development

Working knowledge of:

• PHP
• HTML
• CSS
• Javascript
• React

Databases

Schema design, operation and maintenance of:

• PostgreSQL
• Snowflake
• Oracle
• SQLServer
• MongoDB
• Elasticsearch

Infrastructure As Code

Frequent usage of the following:

• Terraform
• Docker
• Kubernetes (EKS, GKE and AKS)
• ECS
• Helm
• Kustomize

Security

Usage of various security tooling:

• Trivy
• Dependabot
• Renovate
• Vault

Data Tooling

Passing understanding of:

• Databricks
• Iceberg
• Avro
• LLMs

Revision Control Tooling

• Git - Github, Gitlab, and Bitbucket
• SVN

Server Administration

Apache, Samba, OpenSSH, and general Unix configuration.