CV

Experience

Lead a cross functional team of engineers responsible for the company’s infrastructure.
Line managed SREs and mentored them, progressing their careers and helping them obtain promotions.
Identified and led key projects that were required for the company to meet its goals.
Migrated the core application from CloudFormation to Terraform with no disruption to customers or colleagues.
Redesigned the company’s multi-region network from scratch to ensure it was suitable for future requirements.
Accountable for migrating from ElasticSearch to Loki, which reduced costs and increased performance.

Implemented monitoring systems that tracked thousands of EC2 instances in multiple AWS regions in order to ensure the company achieved its 5x9 availability SLA.
Worked with AWS in order to pass the AWS Technical Baseline Review and become AWS Partners.
Introduced Terraform to the company, including defining best practices and CI processes.
Migrated the core application to Docker.

Migrated the application to be containerised and running on ECS.
Automated builds and deploys of new Docker images to ECS using CodePipeline and CodeBuild.
Automated EC2 AMI builds using Systems Manager and Chef.
Automated End to End testing of new AMIs and Docker images.
Implemented detailed API request metrics that enabled several performance problems to be identified and solved.
Built custom stress testing tools to ensure the application could handle predicted future traffic.

Designed a new algorithm that reduced the processing time of the natural language analysis system by 90%.
Lead the rollout of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery across all services using TravisCI.
Developed a fault tolerant microservices based system that processed a high volume of social media posts in real time.
Implemented complex language analysis features using machine learning, such as:
- Sentiment scoring (including entity sentiment scoring).
- Topic Extraction.
- Emotion Analysis.
- Automatic query generation.
- User demographic identification.
Automated generation of complex Premier League football reports and reduced load time from 2 minutes to under 0.5 seconds.
Responsible for technical delivery of high profile live events, including:
Built complex reporting systems and client facing RESTful APIs.