Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos · United Kingdom

• Bringing Ditto edge technology to customers across EMEA

Dec 2023 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo · United Kingdom

• Helping customers in Europe build GenAI and Semantic Search applications through the use of Vector Database capabilities.

Jan 2019 – Nov 2023 · 4 yrs 10 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• Helping to bring event based architectures and streaming technology to major companies in Northern Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Jan 2014 – Dec 2018 · 4 yrs 11 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• Lead technical architect on NoSQL projects that delivered major net-new customers.
• Worked with some of the largest firms across Retail, Travel, Telcos, and Finance.

Apr 2013 – Dec 2013 · 8 mos

• Software Development + Infrastructure for Dynamic Binary Translation project

Jan 2012 – Dec 2012 · 11 mos

• o Design, architecture and implementation of next generation NAS products
• o Work includes GPFS clustered filesystem technology, virtualization technologies and NAS protocols (CIFS/NFS)
• o Closely involved in client engagements as part of beta and early adoption programmes

Feb 2011 – Dec 2011 · 10 mos

• IBM Systems Technology Group
• o RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) Test Lead for new IBM midrange NAS storage product.
• o Lead for a team of five Test Engineers
• o Created a comprehensive test plan, covering a broad set of potential failures across the product's full range of functionality. This relied heavily on communication with a disperse team spread across Europe, N. America and Asia.
• o Experienced in installing and configuring enterprise storage equipment, including a SANs, Fibre Channel Switch infrastructure, SAS connectivity, and 10GEthernet.
• o Experience administering clustered filesystem technology (GPFS) as well as network file sharing protocols (NFS/CIFS).

Aug 2010 – Feb 2011 · 6 mos

• IBM Systems Technology Group
• o C++ development in the POWER systems stack, primarily at the hypervisor level
• o Working on a project to provide high availability solutions
• o Took charge of Manchester Lab’s build system and build machines (VMs)
• o Additional duties included rolling of baselines using git as a source code management tool and the in-house change request software.

Dec 2008 – Aug 2010 · 1 yr 8 mos · London, United Kingdom

• o C++/Linux developer working server-side on Amadeus’ new generation departure control/flight management technology. Complete system is Java GUI, C++/Linux server and Oracle database combination.
• o Responsible for solving bugs found both in production and test to tight time frames.
• o Coded new functionality and unit tests on time and to spec as part of deliverables for a number of major Airlines.
• o Created and distributed a number of software tools to increase productivity within the team.
• o Completed externally run technical training in Oracle, C++ as well as a variety of soft skills courses such as presentation skills.
• o Constantly communicating with teams spread across the globe – data centre in Munich, development in Nice, operational support in Miami and Sydney.
• Notable achievements:
• o Improved the performance of the server’s most commonly received transaction by 40%.
• o Asked to join on-call roster providing 24/7 support, less than a year after joining as a graduate. This involved handling high pressure situations. E.g. Late night phone calls to debug and fix issues on flights due to depart imminently.
• o Lead for Flight Management product on project to partition both backend server and database by airline carrier, including considerations for smooth transition to new architecture.

Jun 2008 – Nov 2008 · 5 mos · Manchester Area, United Kingdom

• o Advised and assisted customers with the migration of legacy Solaris/SPARC applications to modern Linux/x86 and Solaris/x86 platforms.
• o Communicated directly with customers to establish the precise nature of their issues, performed detailed analysis of the problems and provided effective and reliable solutions in co-operation with engineering teams.
• o Used many UNIX tools (strace/truss, nm, gdb etc) as part of the diagnostic process.
• o Trained in the use of SalesForce in order to track customer queries and allow quality communication in a team split between the UK and the USA.
• o Managed and maintained a number of operating systems (RHEL, SLES, Solaris, OpenSolaris) in both real and virtualized environments, gaining knowledge of VMWare ESX and VMWare Server.

Apr 2007 – Sep 2007 · 5 mos · Manchester, United Kingdom

• o C++ programmer working on dynamic binary translation technology.
• o Responsible for the translation of Linux system calls between architectures, carried out with reference to the Linux kernel source code.
• o Modified the MIPS front and back ends of the translator to support bi-endian byte-swapping translation.
• o Refactored system call translation code to increase encapsulation. Alterations intended to increase code reuse and helped decrease time required to retarget the translator for new architectures.
• o Built up an understanding of the importance of a well defined software development process with appropriate tools such as CVS/SVN for managing change, as well as an appreciation for the need for regular and high quality communication both within and between teams.

Jun 2006 – Sep 2006 · 3 mos · Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany

• o Worked as a member of a small team in Siemens' Corporate Technology division in Erlangen, Bavaria
• o Responsible for the editing and reviewing of a work-in-progress book centred on design patterns for data interchange
• o Role involved reworking of best practices into design pattern form, checking XML examples and proof reading