Feb 2026 – Present · 3 mos · Remote

• Lead enterprise AI integration strategy and cloud architecture for scalable, production-grade systems.

Sep 2025 – Present · 8 mos · Cambridge, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid

• Designing and deploying enterprise AI agents for industrial intelligence and automation.
• Built orchestrated AI agents for document analysis, large-scale data reasoning, engineering calculations, and on-demand diagram generation.
• Implemented secure prompt/context engineering and guardrails to mitigate prompt injection and ensure reliable agent behaviour.
• Optimised semantic retrieval performance in Azure AI Search and evaluated RAG quality.
• Delivered production agentic systems using Azure AI Foundry, Semantic Kernel.

Mar 2024 – Sep 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos · Reading, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid

• Worked on a nationally significant distributed platform, improving weather forecasting and climate modelling capabilities.
• Participated in the development of a cloud-based, large-scale, distributed .NET/Azure platform handling very large scientific datasets.
• Implemented scalable data processing, resilient architecture, and secure identity integration.
• Built CI/CD automation pipelines in Azure DevOps across multiple environments.
• Mentored engineers and influenced engineering standards across the project.

Aug 2022 – Aug 2024 · 2 yrs · Remote

• Created text-based interactive programming courses. I am the author of the following courses:
• The Easiest Way to Learn Design Patterns in C#
• The Ultimate Guide to gRPC in ASP.NET Core
• Building Web Applications With Blazor
• Building Cross-Platform Applications With .NET MAUI
• Building AWS Lambda Functions With C# and .NET
• Building and Deploying Azure Functions in .NET
• The Ultimate Guide For SignalR in ASP.NET Core
• Using xUnit for Test-driven Development in .NET
• Using ML.NET to Build Machine Learning Models
• Using Single Sign-on For Securing Applications in ASP.NET Core

Apr 2022 – Mar 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos · Remote

• Empower is a digital banking app based in Silicon Valley and the fastest growing fintech company in California according to Inc 5000. It helps financially vulnerable people quickly build a good credit history and enables easy ways to budget and save. My responsibility is mainly related to the development of back-end services based on ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework, various Azure services, and other cloud-based services, such as MongoDB. As a senior engineer, I also set code quality and automation testing standards, mentor junior colleagues, actively recruit new software engineers, and get involved with improving the onboarding process.
• ● Led migration from .NET 5 and Entity Framework Core 5 all the way to .NET 8 and Entity Framework Core 8
• ● Led the development of the Staging environment that closely mimics the production environment and uses real user data with obfuscated personal information for thorough testing of critical system features
• ● Helped to develop common software development and automation testing standards for the team to follow, which resulted in increased stability of the system and a significant reduction in the number of defects
• ● Increased the size of the engineering team by actively hiring the best talent from the wider software engineering community

Oct 2021 – Mar 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Remote

• Creating educational videos. Providing technical reviews for technical books and educational videos.
• Created the following educational videos:
• Beginning gRPC on ASP.NET Core
• Building a Distributed IoT Cluster on .NET 6 Using Blazor and SignalR
• Securing ASP.NET Core Endpoints
• Introduction to .NET MAUI

Feb 2020 – Apr 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Watford, England, United Kingdom

• CSL is an Internet of Things company based in London. Historically, it was focused on fire and security alarms. However, it then started expanding into the wider IoT market.
• ● Enabled the company to move from into multiple European markets by re-designing the user-facing software and making it localizable
• ● Enabled the company to enter more compliance-heavy market niches by leading the effort on implementing a multifactor authentication and single sign-on across the software ecosystem
• ● Improved customer satisfaction by enforcing good coding standards across the engineering team and substantially reducing the number of software defects

Apr 2019 – Feb 2022 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Remote

• Wrote the book entitled "Microservices Communication in .NET Using gRPC".
• Created various types of supplementary content for other books, such as follow-along technical tutorial videos.
• Provided technical reviews to other book authors.

Oct 2018 – Feb 2026 · 7 yrs 4 mos

• Authoring coding courses. Scripting and filming video lectures on various aspects of programming. Writing technical literature and blog posts. Performing technical reviews of programming-related literature. Performing one-on-one and group-based mentoring sessions.
• The coding courses and literature that I have authored and/or created has been published on platforms such as Packt, Manning, Apress, Udemy and Skillshare. Some of my courses can be found via the link below:
• https://scientificprogrammer.net/category/coding-courses/

Oct 2017 – Feb 2020 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bracknell

• Blackbox specializes in railway information system development, which includes high-definition information screens and public address (PA) systems.
• ● Was solely responsible for creating a new type of company product: a cross-platform .NET Core application that was capable of playing audio on Windows and Linux and on any CPU architecture, so it could work both on a development machine and on an IoT device
• ● Enabled the company to expand into a new vertical by designing, developing, and overseeing the deployments of a text-to-speech PA system that consisted of coordinated IoT devices placed at different railway station platforms
• ● Enabled the company to efficiently upgrade its user-facing devices by designing a firmware download algorithm that allows an automatic non-intrusive download of large files in a low-bandwidth environment

Apr 2016 – Oct 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bracknell

• Developing web-based user interfaces by utilising a number of client-side software tools, such as JQuery, Bootstrap, TypeScript, DataTables, etc.. Developing new features to large-scale ASP.NET applications based on MVC and Web API. Developing OWIN middleware components. Working with Entity Framework and SQL for data retrieval and modification. Using NUnit to write unit tests and end-to-end automated integration tests. Writing automated browser-based UI tests using Selenium framework.

Sep 2014 – Apr 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos · Greater Reading Area

• Developing ASP.NET (C#) software. Installing and configuring SharePoint 2010 on multi-server farm. Extending SharePoint applications through Visual Studio. Integrating ASP.NET applications with SOAP-based web services. Integrating SharePoint 2010 with FAST Search indexing extension. Developing custom indexing connectors for FAST Search to crawl custom XML data. Writing PowerShell scripts for deployment and configuration of SharePoint-based applications.
• Configuring ArcGIS server back-end. Publishing ArcGIS map documents as services accessible through REST protocol. Writing Flash-based front end ArcGIS viewer applications.
• Performing technical design tasks and interviewing prospective team members.

Jul 2013 – Sep 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos · Greater Guildford Area, United Kingdom

• The employer is a developer and vendor of Xceptor, a web-based business software used by major financial institution and commodity traders. The software was based on ASP.NET, C# and SQL. My responsibilities included liaising directly with clients to document and confirm software requirements and carrying out software development work, which included writing custom components in ASP.NET and C#, configuring software through GUI, SQL Server and XML configuration files, migrating data by writing XSLT's and SQL queries and defining XSD schema for XML-based documents. I have also been involved in R&D.

Jan 2012 – Jul 2013 · 1 yr 6 mos · Skipton, United Kingdom and Wallingford, United Kingdom

• Using ArcGIS, MapInfo and QGIS software for spatial data analysis. Using Visual Studio IDE to develop software tools in VB.NET, with special emphasis on add-ins for ArcGIS package. Manipulating data in ArcSDE (geodatabases managed by server-based DBMS). Performing GIS data migration from different GIS formats (e.g. TAB to shapefile) and different geographic projections. Building and running 1-dimensional and 2-dimensional numeric hydraulic models, including advanced integrated catchment modelling in InfoWorks ICM software. Conducting spreadsheet analysis and writing VBA macros in Microsoft Excel. Manipulating Microsoft Access databases. Maintaining and updating code for major company-owned software packages. Using Team Foundation Server (TFS). Outlining test cases. Presenting software and model results to clients. Developed understanding of hydrology and hydraulics during the period of employment.

Dec 2008 – Jan 2012 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Various

• Visiting various high street retailers (e.g. Currys, Carphone Warehouse, Tesco) as a representative of electronic consumer goods and telecom brands (e.g. Sony, Toshiba, Orange) to conduct staff training sessions, customer-facing product demonstrations, product audits, merchandising and mystery shopping visits. Some of campaigns involved target-driven personal sales. Also visited independent retailers as a brand representative to conduct business-to-business sales. Developed good business awareness and good technical literacy during this employment period.