My experiences include:
- Grew engineering teams successfully from 5 to 30 headcount in 18 months, whilst continuing to deliver and improve process and team culture
- Envisioned, designed, planned and implemented multi-region tech stack refactor to reduce latency ~5x for customers. Rolled out with zero downtime
- Took ownership of, and ran, the ISO27001 and SOC2 (Type I and Type II) audit compliance certification process in parallel, working across the entire company, achieving both within the planned timelines
- Reduced ongoing cloud costs by ~40% whilst still scaling and adding new products
- Migrated multiple internal services, including AI/ML GPU-bound processes to internal kubernetes-based platform, achieving zero-downtime rolling deploys with automated rollbacks
- Contributed to company-wide culture, running sessions for the whole company at off-sites, organising social events and invigorating Slack communications and all-hands meetings
- Principal Engineer for a Multi-cloud, Kubernetes and ECS based, Docker platform as a service (PaaS), using Terraform and CloudFormation, written in open source Golang
- Reducing CI and deploy times by 10x
- Reducing new developer tech onboarding from ~3 days to ~30 minutes
- Defined new progression and evaluation framework for an entire company (well known Unicorn)
- Provide mentoring for all engineers across an entire company division (well known Unicorn)
- Lead on ~$100m Big Data analytics and Customer Experience platform for Xerox
- Led and contributor of a team which designed, developed and deployed within 6 months an innovative, and patent granted, knowledge finding system, utilising machine learning, statistical classification and graphing technologies
- Led and mentored 3 offshore teams simultaneously to improve productivity & communication, reduce defect rates and transfer knowledge
- Project lead for ~$40m project for huge industry retailer in the US, co-ordinating effort across 3 global development teams to produce multi-channel solution over multiple releases
My services include:
- Consulting CTO
- Cloud Solutions - AWS, GCP, Azure, DO, raw metal...
- Technical Consulting and System Architecture Design
- Recruitment advice and growing teams
- 'People Engineering'
- ...talk to me for anything else. I am a wearer of many hats!