Open Source Developer, Self
2019-07—2022-04
Spending a few months developing tools to make engineering in the clouds
easier. And other assorted tools
- Built a mobile app to showcase user sourced data, using Flutter and Dart
- Contributed to existing open source projects such as Gpodder and Gpodder.net
- Built a tool to view twitter exports
- Built a website to highlight the problems with FPTP
- Built a tool to monitor activity on toxic internet communities
Volunteer & Volunteer Coordinator,
2022-01—2022-04
Volunteering at various organizations, including coordinating volunteers
and donated resources.
2020-04—2021-10
Full stack developer (including support & infrastructure engineering)
for multiple customer facing serverless applications.
- Picked up Typescript and React and to deliver front-end improvements
- Improved build pipelines, to deliver CI while pushed quality left, by
enforcing linting and coverage testing
- (Collectively) improved our processes significantly to much better reflect
agile best practices
- Built and migrated to a multi-account structure with an access account
deployed entirely as configuration
Cloud Systems Developer Lead, Cloudreach
2014-03—2019-07
Worked on customer projects as a Lead/Architect and mentored a small team.
- Architect on several Enterprise engagement, at companies such as NBIM,
BP, News UK, etc.
- Delivered both the architecture and implementation on multiple Cloud Access
models
- Managed a team for 4 engineers, helping them get the most out of working
for Cloudreach
- Helped run a city government hackathon (TFL)
Role Owner (Cloud Systems Developers), Cloudreach
2016-06—2019-07
Worked with the leadership team to improve the System Developers role.
- Helped Engineers get improve their technical skills though a hands-on
training workshop program
- Trained and mentored multiple sets of graduates
Internal hackathons/skunkworks Developer, Cloudreach
2012-02—2019-07
- Built Automated tanks that used image recognition to move and fire at
each other.
- Built various useful internal tools, that remained in use for years
- Built a variety of IaC tools, that made deployments easier
- Won a trip to Central America
- Had project open sourced externally, by somebody that found it useful
Cloud Systems Developer, Cloudreach
2012-02—2014-03
Worked on technical projects on AWS, Google Apps & Salesforce both
individually and as part of a team.
- Worked across 3 cloud platforms (Google, AWS, Salesforce)
- Delivered difficult Google 2 Google migrations on tight deadlines
2010-01—2012-02
Full support for small businesses including end user systems, on-premise
servers and cloud services.
- Worked in a user facing role, for a variety of small businesses
- Made use of automation and unix, in an otherwise manual windows environment