Professional Experience
Two decades of building exceptional products and leading high-performing teams across Fortune 500 companies and innovative startups.
Stealth AI
Founding Engineer
Leading technical architecture and development as founding engineer at an innovative AI startup set to transform AgTech and PropTech spaces, working collaboratively with a small team of 3.
Diageo
Engineering Manager (Primary Role)
Engineering Manager
- Managed 40+ engineers across globally distributed teams with direct reports, conducting regular performance reviews, 1:1s, and career development sessions to drive team growth and retention.
- Scaled engineering organisation from 15 to 40+ developers through strategic hiring, full-cycle recruitment, and comprehensive onboarding programs while maintaining team culture and productivity.
- Led development of the company's global headless platform, co-creating the composable architecture vision that now powers over 75% of Diageo traffic for brands including Johnnie Walker, Guinness, Smirnoff, and Baileys.
- Owned engineering budget and vendor management, selecting and onboarding multiple external agencies while establishing governance frameworks and quality gates achieving 100% compliance.
- Implemented performance management and engineering metrics framework, improving delivery predictability and team velocity while fostering innovation culture through AI adoption and regular hackathons.
Technical Lead
- Defined comprehensive platform governance including 15 Quality Attribute Requirements, documented best practices, automated technical assessment, and a suite of automated quality gates.
- Implemented global headless CMS platform, reducing time-to-market by 40%, achieving 100% compliance across legal and regulatory standards whilst delivering significant annual development savings.
- Established 'Bedrock', a foundational TypeScript mono-repo (8 applications, 22+ packages, 5 Contentful extensions) as the cornerstone for code reuse and developer productivity across multiple teams and agencies.
Principal Engineer
- Architected and led development of flagship brand sites including TheBar.com and Malts.com, establishing technical patterns and architecture standards for the global platform.
- Designed scalable composable architecture foundations, defining integration patterns and technical standards that would become the blueprint for Diageo's digital transformation.
The Times
Software Engineer
Drove front-end development for digital transformation initiative serving 2M+ daily readers, specialising in web performance optimisation and modern development practices. Delivered significant Core Web Vitals improvements across the platform.
The Very Group
Principal Software Engineer
Led development of highly available, scalable enterprise solution to replace existing Digital Customer Experience platform serving 4M+ customers. Architected new microservices-based commerce platform with 99.9% uptime targets.
Sky
React Developer
Developed features for node/react mono-repo website serving 24M+ customers, creating bespoke React components using Adobe Spectrum design system for cross-team reusability and maintaining design consistency.
Fresh Deals
Engineering Founder
Founded and developed serverless progressive web app during the coronavirus pandemic, creating a comprehensive commerce platform that served users with real-time price tracking, reviews and deal notifications.
Lloyds Banking Group
Lead Full Stack Developer
Provided technical leadership and mentorship to engineering team, directing implementation strategies across multiple workstreams while conducting code reviews and establishing best practices.
The Virtual Assistant Ninja
Engineering Founder
Designed, architected, and developed a suite of SaaS products supporting 1,000+ online retailers. Built platform consisting of three products and eight distributed micro-services worldwide, successfully acquired by Hustle Got Real in March 2020.
Bet365
Full Stack Developer
Developed Client Side Sports UI across all platforms for the world's largest online gambling operator serving 45M+ customers globally. Helped lead re-write of legacy ActionScript to HTML5, mentored developers, and delivered performance improvements across the platform.
Tombola
Multiple Roles
Development Lead
- Directly managed 13 engineers, conducting performance reviews, career development, and regular 1:1s to maintain high team retention and productivity.
- Recruited, interviewed, trained and onboarded all 13 direct reports, building a high-performing team from scratch while establishing team culture and development practices.
- Led 13 skilled client developers across multiple projects via scrum methodology, ensuring delivery of core desktop and mobile products with 50k+ daily active users.
- Managed full performance management cycle including appraisals, promotions, and compensation planning while mentoring junior developers and coordinating on-call incident resolution.
- Championed development standards and team processes, tracking sprint velocity and delivery metrics while presenting risks/issues at stakeholder meetings.
Senior Developer
- Designed and developed products for both consumer and business use, specialising in mobile development for UK, Spain and Italy markets.
- Mentored junior developers and contributed to problem management and incident resolution.
- Ensured agreed timelines and project deliverables were met across multiple platforms.
Developer
- Developed core bingo and casino products for Tombola, the #1 Bingo Operator in the UK, Spain and Italy.
- Focused on UI development and mobile platform specialisation, creating engaging consumer experiences.
TH_NK
Javascript Developer
Contributed to various JavaScript-based projects for creative agency clients, developing and maintaining interactive client-side web applications with focus on user experience and cross-browser compatibility.