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Full Stack Engineer | February 2026 to present

Full Stack Engineer within the Growth & Engagement team, owning authentication and member services. Driving technical decisions across architecture, quarterly planning and delivery for strategic platform initiatives. Led the extraction of the Members service from a legacy monorepo into a standalone repository and infrastructure stack, establishing the foundation for future globalisation efforts and retirement of legacy PHP services. Delivered dedicated infrastructure, deployment pipelines, migration tooling and operational runbooks while coordinating rollout strategies including traffic splitting and rollback planning. Improved platform reliability by optimising Auth0 integrations, reducing dependency on downstream services through JWT claim enrichment and delivering secure native-to-web session transfer capabilities. Built automation and data validation tooling supporting large-scale migrations and platform modernisation efforts.

Key achievements:

  • Extracted Members service from monorepo to standalone repo

  • Wrote Python scripts for legacy JSON-to-database migration validation

  • Mapped complete auth infrastructure across Auth0, Cognito and legacy PHP

  • Fixed P1 critical bugs in renewal and profile API flows

  • Migrated AU deployment pipeline to ephemeral GitHub Actions tokens

  • Resolved verification method defects across brands

Sano Genetics

Engineering Manager | June 2025 to February 2026

Engineering Manager leading the Logistics squad within a health-tech research platform. Responsible for aligning engineering delivery with product strategy and business objectives while supporting a cross-functional team. Led migration of kits and orders from legacy studies into a unified V2 workflow, enabling removal of deprecated code paths and simplifying operational processes. Designed technical specifications for logistics provider integrations, automating kit dispatch, return and assay workflows. Built systems for ingestion and matching of external genetic datasets, enabling participant cohorting and targeted communications at scale.

Key achievements:

  • Led delivery in blue crew aligned to business strategy

  • Migrated kits and orders from legacy studies into V2 workflow

  • Designed and delivered technical PRDs for genetic results and logistics

  • Built system to pull genetic data from external sources

  • Built Slack bot in Python for triage user rota

Pion

Engineering Manager | January 2022 to June 2025

Engineering Manager responsible for engineering effectiveness, platform initiatives and operational excellence across multiple squads. Developed Python-based analytics pipelines to surface DORA and SPACE metrics from GitLab data, enabling data-driven improvements to engineering performance. Led engineering delivery for ISO27001 compliance, introducing automated vulnerability reporting and security monitoring processes. Built reusable backend and frontend service templates to accelerate development and improve consistency across teams. Redesigned incident management practices, introducing structured reporting and blameless post-mortems that improved operational maturity and learning across the organisation.

Key achievements:

  • Developed Python pipelines for DORA/SPACE metrics from GitLab data

  • Built Python Slack bots for weekly eNPS pulse surveys and on-call rotas

  • Led engineering ISO27001 delivery

  • Built template services for backend and frontend development

  • Redesigned incident management processes

Pion

Android Engineer | September 2020 to January 2022

Android Engineer responsible for developing and modernising the Student Beans mobile application. Led improvements to application architecture, including migration of networking infrastructure and adoption of Room for local persistence. Rebuilt navigation using scoped ViewModels, reducing coupling and improving maintainability. Delivered features end-to-end in Kotlin while collaborating closely with backend and data engineering teams. Owned implementation of a company-wide impression tracking platform, defining event schemas, building client-side tracking infrastructure and enabling customer-facing analytics through Looker dashboards.

Key achievements:

  • Modernised data layer with OkHttp and Room ORM

  • Rebuilt navigation using scoped ViewModels

  • Developed and shipped features end-to-end in Kotlin

  • Owned delivery of impression tracking project

Appoly

Junior Software Engineer | June 2019 to August 2020

Software Engineer working across a wide range of client projects spanning Android, iOS, backend systems and hardware integrations. Regularly delivered features within unfamiliar codebases and technology stacks, requiring rapid understanding of business requirements and technical constraints. Developed custom networking solutions including binary image processing services over raw TCP/IP and low-level FTP integrations supporting communication with legacy industrial hardware systems.

Key achievements:

  • Delivered features across legacy Java and modern Kotlin apps

  • Built Python server for binary image streams over raw TCP/IP

  • Implemented socket-level FTP client in iOS

Sandwell Academy

Curriculum Leader for Computer Science | September 2017 to June 2019

Curriculum Leader for Computer Science responsible for delivery of GCSE and A-Level Computer Science. Designed curriculum materials, delivered classroom teaching and managed assessment processes. Developed strong communication, presentation and stakeholder management skills while translating complex technical concepts into accessible learning experiences.

Key achievements:

  • Delivered A-Level and GCSE Computer Science to classes of 30

  • Designed open-source Computer Science curriculum

  • Developed soft skills in high-pressure environment