Apr 2022 – Feb 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos · United Kingdom · Remote

• Engineering Manager for the Compliance/Mobile/Supply teams responsible for integration and connections with banks in the MENA region using Open Banking Standards. The first 3 banks within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to successfully integrate with their standards were all clients of Tarabut.
• Responsibilities include line management of 16 reports involving their career progression, their current abilities and setting expectations. Met up in person for team building exercises and strategy meetings. Drove improvements in the team through changes in processes (Jira, Agile) and a focus on quality (Unit tests, SonarQube, Wiz, Production-Monitoring).
• The 3 teams encompassed both product-focused and project-focused strategies requiring significant conversations with both internal and external stakeholders.

Jul 2020 – Apr 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos

Jun 2019 – Jul 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Building the construction management platform for the building firms of today.

Mar 2020 – Apr 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Primary developer writing the system to help job seekers in the construction industry. Recruitment, job site and tender platform all in one portal.

Apr 2018 – Jun 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos · Brighton

• We set out to make renting easier, with an automated acceptance approach, that took the rental agreement from taking 2 weeks, to 20 minutes.
• Leading a team of backend engineers through design, implementation and support of the Movem systems.

May 2016 – Apr 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos

• As a Chapter Lead for the API Chapter I am responsible for:
• Managing a team of ten, including Staff satisfaction, Career progression, training and learning
• Documenting and managing the high level design of the APIs
• Facilitating communication, either between squads, or between World First and its external partnerships, including business analysts, product managers and external sources.

Nov 2014 – May 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos

• As a senior PHP Developer within the API team, I'm responsible for maintaining and improving the API offering that World First use for their mobile platform and partnership programmes.
• Main technologies: PHP, PHPUnit, Behat, MySQL
• Methodologies: Scrum, Kanban, DDD

Jan 2014 – Nov 2014 · 10 mos

• Working as a senior technical consultant supporting the professional development and day to day work of technical consultants whilst providing a range of services including rapid e-learning, bespoke e-learning, hosted learning solutions and open source solutions.
• Main technologies: PHP, Moodle, Totara, PHPUnit, MySQL, PostgreSQL

Aug 2013 – Dec 2013 · 4 mos

• Working as a technical consultant providing a range of services including rapid e-learning, bespoke e-learning, hosted learning solutions and open source solutions.

Mar 2010 – Jul 2013 · 3 yrs 4 mos

• General developer primarily using PHP and JavaScript with the jQuery framework. Projects included the use of RequireJS and BackboneJS. Also maintained programs written in C#.
• Main technologies: PHP, PHPUnit, JavaScript, jQuery, Backbone
• Minor technologies: Java, C#, Android

Apr 2008 – Mar 2010 · 1 yr 11 mos

• The company wrote bespoke websites so my day to day job was programming them in Ruby on Rails.
• Side jobs included improving the companies CMS (Xalter) which was written in Java, supporting a quoting system for a large British company which was written in C#.NET and ASP.NET, and then there was a stand-alone C# app being developed for Sussex University.
• Main technologies: Ruby on Rails, C#, Java

Mar 2007 – Mar 2008 · 1 yr

• I was taken on to support their existing standalone Java trading platform. One of my first tasks at the company however was writing a test harness in Python to test the realtime system they had running. Occasionally a small command line program needed to be written to make someone's life easier - in those cases I wrote them in Perl just to break the monotony.
• Main technologies: Java
• Minor technologies: Python, Perl