Jul 2024 – Nov 2024 · 4 mos

• Took a short professional break to focus on personal health and wellness goals, including working with professional trail running coaches and completing my first three day trail running stage race.

Mar 2021 – Jul 2024 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Remote

• I joined Tailscale as an early engineer, working across the product from the Tailscale client through to the control servers backend and frontend development, working with Go, SQLite, Typescript, React, and other tooling.
• My engineering experience at Tailscale ranges from minor bug fixes to substantial features. I designed and delivered the Custom OIDC feature, a generic OIDC authentication integration from prototype to General Availability. This feature was delivered ahead of time and allowed us to onboard new large customers. I was part of the teams that delivered successful features such as Tailscales Mullvad VPN integration, HTTPS certificate automation, MagicDNS General Availability, and App Connectors.
• I have worked on major database schema migrations, across multiple database technologies, and integrated and built out third-party integrations, such as Stripe, Postmark, Mullvad, among others.
• I have also had extensive experience working on internal tooling, such as logs infrastructure, testing, and support infrastructure. I introduced and led the integration of OpenTelemetry and HoneyComb to improve observability of internal services.
• I took ownership of the Tailscale Reddit community and developed it into a flourishing community, building customer relationships with new market segments.
• As a user focused engineer, I have worked closely with our support team to engage directly with customers to gain feedback, better the product, and improve user outcomes. I have contributed blog posts and documentation to the tailscale.com website and knowledge base.

Aug 2020 – Nov 2020 · 3 mos

• Final Engineering Project: Subscrypt
• Subscrypt allows users to keep track of their subscriptions and be notified, at their discretion, when renewal is due. The project was completed over two weeks. The backend was written in Go with PostgreSQL for data persistence. The frontend was written in JavaScript with Bootstrap for styling. JSON was used for communication between the frontend and backend. The project was deployed on Heroku, with continuous integration handled by Github Actions.
• The project uses the Open Banking API via Plaid to demonstrate how a user could integrate the app with their personal banking solutions. Users are sent reminders as .ics files via the SendGrid email API.

Jun 2020 – May 2021 · 11 mos

Oct 2014 – Aug 2019 · 4 yrs 10 mos · Southampton, England, United Kingdom

• I was a PhD student funded by the NERC Oil and Gas CDT at the University of Southampton, researching base and heavy metal mobilisation from black shales during hydraulic fracturing. I left the position in August 2019 after a long period of chronic illness.

Sep 2011 – Jun 2014 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Portsmouth · On-site

• 2:1 BSc in Environmental Science.
• I have studied;
• First year: Environmental Systems, Oceanography, Geology, Marine and Terrestrial Ecology, Physics, Chemistry and Quantitative Methods.
• Second Year: Energy Resources, Environmental Geochemistry and Analytical Techniques, Environmental Field Work and Analysis, Environmental Monitoring (GIS), Oceanography, Hydrology and Flood Hazards.
• Third Year: Contaminated Land and Ground Water Management, Climate Change, Environmental Auditing and Assessment, Waste Management and Environmental Pollution, and Environmental Project (Thesis).

Apr 2010 – Jul 2010 · 3 mos · Hook

• I was required to work within a small team of four to provide administrative support to a large department of financial advisors, underwriters and support staff. My responsibilities changed regularly dependent on what was required by my colleagues to create an efficient work environment. Responsibilities included: Working with confidential information. Communicating information between different departments and franchises. Providing weekly reports on team productivity to managers. Managing company-wide databases accurately. Ensuring approximately 1000 individual letters were sent out daily containing the correct information and presented in a professional way. Corresponding with clients on a wide variety of issues and escalating issues where necessary. Assisting other departments during periods of heavy workload with a wide range of issues. Creating a large manual of company procedures including computer applications to be used as a training guide for out-sourcing.

Nov 2009 – Feb 2010 · 3 mos · Various

• Working for Master Cleaners required me to cover store duties at short notice where and when I was required at a number of stores in different towns within Surrey and Hampshire. My responsibilities included: Self-managing a number of stores including opening and closing the store, handling money and daily accounts. Providing a hassle-free and personalised experience to each customer. Organise each shop to a specified standard to ensure other employees would be able to work within the environment efficiently.

Feb 2009 – Sep 2009 · 7 mos

• My role at John Hassell required me to work individually on a daily basis to provide support in a number of areas to the company and its operations. My responsibilities included: Coordinating deliveries and employees to create week by week work schedules. Handling customer enquiries by phone, email and post and responding as appropriate with the relevant information and documents. Managing financial accounts with customers and suppliers and resolving any issues where necessary. Organisation of work spaces to provide a safe work environment. Creating a unique computer program to streamline business operations.