Oct 2021 – Sep 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

• Working with clients in the retail banking sector to:
• Plan and manage the delivery of innovative data products in the cloud.
• Define and implement best practices for CI/CD.
• Use compliance as code to continuously ensure controls are met.
• Design architectural patterns for repeatable delivery on AWS.
• Work with stakeholders across Data, Cloud Platform and Senior Leadership Teams to ensure consistent product direction.
• Provide ongoing professional development for internal employees.
• Produced in depth reports on the architecture and delivery process and outcomes to enable effective client relationship management.

Apr 2018 – Oct 2021 · 3 yrs 6 mos · London, United Kingdom

• We design globally distributed, horizontally scalable systems through proven enterprise grade service-oriented architecture. Supported by industry standards and through hundreds of case studies we can achieve massive scale while maintaining truly cost effective operation.
• We build massive data processing pipelines, for optimised retrieval and instant visualisation. Our large scale stream and batch processing engines perform transactional aggregation, reasoning and machine learned realtime knowledge extraction.
• We help start-ups to make the right technology choices, avoid costly mistakes and gradually and organically grow their technology stack and organisation. With our broad expertise we provide bespoke solutions and advice on recruitment decisions and fundraising.

Oct 2014 – Mar 2018 · 3 yrs 5 mos

• Lead Technical Account Management, DevOps, Engineering and Technical Product Management teams.
• Represent the business as a technical thought leader at technical industry events.
• Identify key talent and mentor from junior level through to team leader.
• Responsible for the reliability and profitability of platform buying > 6 billion monthly ad impressions built using Go, Ruby, JavaScript, with additional services in Clojure.
• Ensure roadmap is technically feasible and agreement with overall product direction and will either directly drive incremental revenue.
• Work with external partners to alpha/beta test their new product features and develop them, working to develop long-lasting partner relationships.
• Work with client engineering teams of major international brands to find new methods of activating their 1st party data to drive performance of marketing campaigns.
• Introduced ChatOps to manage all deployment and on major operational procedures that need broader cross functional visibility.
• Contribute to RFPs and pitches with a technical focus during the company’s most successful period of new business.
• Implemented unit testing best practices and CI within data engineering team, leading to elimination of deployment of non-functioning code from a team of junior developers.
• Created a framework for an ETL library that is used throughout Data/Ops code. This handles all SQL and BigQuery data manipulation, as well as data ingestion from 3rd party APIs.
• Lead process of defining KPIs and SLAs for all products and 3rd party integrations to ensure ongoing ROI.

Sep 2013 – Sep 2014 · 1 yr

• Worked with clients and internal sales teams to create novel solutions to campaign strategies that pushed the boundaries of what people were doing within programmatic marketing.
• Worked with both internal and external clients to provide support on our proprietary technology and feed feature requests into the product development cycle.
• Test product releases and ensure that developed features met the product specification.
• Supported migration of infrastructure and full data pipeline from managed servers to Google Cloud Platform.
• Turned 3rd party API integrations into detailed stories for developers if part of core infrastructure. Coded API integrations for data infrastructure in Python.

Mar 2013 – Sep 2013 · 6 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Agency
• Led a team of 5 across a wide range of clients.
• Managed client relations across major accounts as well as resolving issues on
• smaller accounts.
• Defined display strategy and implemented display campaigns.
• Set overall paid search strategy, particularly across new features.
• Contributed to successful proposals, helping to bring a significant revenue
• increase to the UK office.
• Wrote articles featured on Search Engine Watch and the company blog.
• Managed the successful upgrade of all clients to Enhanced Campaigns.
• Trained new hires across AdWords, Google Analytics, Doubleclick tools,
• Google Tag Manager, and various other platforms.
• Rapid Application Development
• Developed bespoke solutions using Python and R for reporting and analysis.
• Reduced reseller weekly reports from a 3 hour process to 5 minutes.
• Developed a workaround to allow propriety bid optimiser to bid based on
• attribution models.
• Maintained a Linux server for bespoke tools, such as client website monitoring
• and data feed processing.
• Provided an approved bypass on traditional development teams for issues that
• could be solved through simple scripts but were not a priority in the
• development queue.
• Data Analyst
• Consulted on SEO reporting and developed new strategies to overcome data
• deficiencies and to prove value to clients.
• UK management for a team of data analysts in Bangalore office.
• Provided analytics consultancy to a major international brand.
• Identified technical site issues impacting conversion performance through
• deep analytical processes.
• Reseller
• Responsible for meeting optimisation and maintenance targets across reseller
• platforms.
• Identified issues and solutions across a major trial of reseller platform.
• Acted as liaison between development team, editorial team and Google
• support to identify and resolve issues.
• Developed quality control procedures to ensure that output from editorial
• teams met all defined constraints.

Jan 2012 – Feb 2013 · 1 yr 1 mo · London, United Kingdom

• Managed international clients with active campaigns in >50 countries.
• Improved performance KPIs on large clients leading to a significant increase in
• investment.

Mar 2011 – Dec 2011 · 9 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Built accounts from scratch from low value thousand keyword accounts to
• larger million keyword accounts.
• Part of brainstorming team investigating algorithmic approaches to keyword
• optimisation on reseller platform.
• Created a Java based reporting tool to ensure accuracy and speed of
• reporting, eventually allowing the reporting to be done by external reporting
• teams.
• Improved efficiency of keyword tagging process by identifying a better system
• for ensuring unique tags.

Aug 2006 – Jan 2011 · 4 yrs 5 mos

• Played guitar, banjo and mandolin on a variety of UK tours.
• Featured soloist on live DVD sold through major distribution channels.
• Filled vacant roles in existing bands, providing seamless transition.
• Defined roles in new bands, providing feedback to creative teams.