Mar 2023 – Present · 3 yrs · Remote

• Writing weekly coding challenges that help software engineers level up by building real-world software applications.
• Delivering live software engineering training.

May 2022 – Sep 2022 · 4 mos

• Acast is a podcast advertising company. They help creators and advertisers connect.
• AWS, CDK, Typescript/JavaScript and node.js

Sep 2021 – Apr 2022 · 7 mos · Remote

• The Met Office is the United Kingdom's national weather service, providing critical weather services and world-leading climate science, helping you make better decisions to stay safe and thrive.
• AWS (Cloud) and Python for handling large meteorological data sets.

Apr 2021 – Sep 2021 · 5 mos · Remote

• Sky is Europe's largest media company and pay-TV broadcaster.
• Building serverless solutions to support Sky’s broadcasting activities using Python 3.8, Java, AWS and the Serverless Framework.

Mar 2019 – Feb 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos · Exeter, United Kingdom

• The Met Office is the United Kingdom's national weather service, providing critical weather services and world-leading climate science, helping you make better decisions to stay safe and thrive.
• AWS (Cloud) and Python for handling large meteorological data sets.

Mar 2018 – Feb 2019 · 11 mos · Newbury

• Cirrus Logic is a fabless semiconductor supplier that specialises in analog, mixed-signal, and audio DSP integrated circuits.
• Managing several teams developing Data Engineering Tools to gather, process and distribute data to support the development, testing and deployment of machine learning algorithms using Python, Conda, PyTest, Numpy, Pandas, Dask and Dask-Distributed.

Jul 2017 – Mar 2018 · 8 mos · Newbury

• Starting to build a new team whilst designing, developing and deploying software tools to manage big data for the development and evaluation of biometric algorithms.

Dec 2016 – Jul 2017 · 7 mos · Newbury

• Software development for High Performance Computing using Python, SciPy, Pandas, NumPy, Dask, Dask-Distributed and C.

Jul 2016 – Nov 2016 · 4 mos · London

• Morningstar Real-Time Data provides real-time. low latency financial market data feeds.
• Leading a globally distributed team of 40+ software engineering and QA staff developing and supporting real time low latency market data feed handlers and supporting infrastructure for several hundred financial exchanges.
• Using C++, C# and Python on Windows.

Oct 2012 – Jun 2016 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Bath, United Kingdom

• Aria Networks provides artificial intelligence driven network planning and optimisations tools for major telecommunications companies, over-the-top providers and global enterprises.
• ■ Defining the technical strategy to deliver the business strategy and products.
• ■ Leading the software development and QA teams delivering a customised network capacity planning and optimisation tool for telecommunications networks (IP, MPLS, OTN, SDN and NFV).
• ■ Using C++, Boost, QT, JavaScript and Python to build software based around an Artificial Intelligence (AI, specifically Evolutionary Computing/Genetic Algorithms & Neural Networks)
• engine that runs on Windows, Mac and Linux.

May 2011 – Sep 2012 · 1 yr 4 mos · London, United Kingdom

• IG Index is the No.1 spread betting and CFD provider.
• Working in the Financial Pricing team developing software in C++ and Python on Windows (GUIs) and Linux (severs) to provide prices for the financial instruments that IG trades.

Jan 2006 – Present · 20 yrs 2 mos

• Example projects:
• ■ Advising on technology strategy for businesses.
• ■ Advising a consultancy on technology deliver and project turnaround.
• ■ Advising a technology company on the use of machine learning and NLP to access sentiment on financial news.

Jan 2006 – Present · 20 yrs 2 mos

• Providing interim software engineering management (VP Engineering/CTO) for startups and SMEs.
• Providing leadership and software development coaching and mentoring to software engineering leaders and their teams.
• Example projects:
• ■ Interim CTO redefining the IT infrastructure and software systems of a business turnaround.
• ■ Interim CTO of an angel backed start-up.
• ■ Leading the development of a large scale website for the BBC.
• ■ Providing leadership and soft skills training CTOs, EMs and Technical leads.
• Providing training, mentoring and coaching software engineers. Delivering the training both on-site and remote. Topics included: Go, Python, C++, NLP and Machine Learning.

Jan 2002 – Apr 2004 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Co-founded a .com bed and breakfast search engine.

Sep 2001 – Jan 2007 · 5 yrs 4 mos · Chippenham

• Founded a software development consultancy on September 11th, 2001 which pivoted into web based travel network.

Mar 2001 – Sep 2001 · 6 mos · Bristol

• Cabot Communications is a software organisation that develops software for Digital TV, including MHEG-5 and DVB.
• Leading a team of engineers developing an MHEG-5 and DSM-CC engine (Ditigital TV) using embedded C++.

Sep 2000 – Mar 2001 · 6 mos · London

• PriceWaterhouseCoopers is a multinational professional services network of firms, operating as partnerships under the PwC brand.
• Provinding consultancy to a couple of late dot com start-ups, using C, Java, HTML, CSS and Oracle.

Mar 1999 – Jul 2000 · 1 yr 4 mos · Chippenham

• Westinghouse Signals was a British supplier of railway signalling and control equipment to the rail industry worldwide.
• Worked as a senior member of the software engineering team developing software using C++, STL, Boost, MFC, MS Visual C++, TCP/IP sockets and Win32 Multithreading for the Singapore Mass Rapid Transit system.

Dec 1996 – Jan 2000 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Bristol

• Science Systems was a pan-European computer software and services company.
• Worked as a software engineer in C++ using STL, Boost, MFC, MS Visual C++, Multithreading and COM, with some exposure to Java, JavaScript, UML, SQL, SQL Server and Oracle. Some time working on-site at Westinghouse Signals

Jun 1996 – Oct 1996 · 4 mos · Shepton Mallet

• UK Online was a consumer Internet service provider that operated within the UK.
• Summer job during Uni working for one of the UK's first ISPs. Developing applications in C, PERL and SQL connecting to Oracle databases.