As an Engineering Director I am responsible for four cross-functional engineering teams. I provide engineering managers with both leadership and technical mentorship, work closely with product partners to solve complex problems and stay hands-on when needed to help teams move. More recently I have also been introducing AI-assisted engineering workflows to improve iteration speed, discovery and delivery quality.

Reporting directly to the CDO my role is to architect and lead a team of developers in the development of a highly scalable application that allows customers to digitise their processes online. The project uses libraries and components built in React and Angular micro-frontends with Single Spa to deliver only affected changes as seamless micro application modules alongside a separate purpose-built NativeScript mobile application. Services are built primarily using NodeJS/Apollo GraphQL (Federation) and Go with IdentityServer4 managing inter-service and user authorisation. All artefacts are versioned and delivered through GitHub Releases, NPM and Docker and deployed to Azure.

Contracted part-time to work alongside the Engineering Director on two case study projects aimed at extending their demonstration to offer a web based frontend, additional compute logic and mobile alerting support. Both systems were developed using Angular, Apollo GraphQL, Node.JS and serverless integrations and deployed to AWS using CircleCI.

I was responsible for overseeing the continued development and support of our existing web and mobile applications as well as a number of greenfield projects, including; - an online customer portal, a price comparison website and SSO authentication platform. Daily activities also included managing and mentoring an agile development team of 6 individuals ranging from senior developers to junior test analysts. Both the customer portal and price comparison website were developed using microservices communicating via NATS to talk to an angular front-end using Apollo GraphQL. These containerised services connected various functions of the business through APIs hosted in Docker (swarm).

As a senior developer I played a key role in introducing agile scrum and software best practises, driving new technology and process into the business. My daily activities focused on the support and development of web and mobile t-mac configuration and reporting platforms using .NET MVC. I was later made responsible for recruiting, managing and coaching junior developers through the expansion of the department.

Working closely with clients’ and the product owner I was responsible for building mock UI designs and working prototypes, as well as all aspects of the system and it’s design. I was focused directly towards enhancing user experience through the use of core asynchronous web components and the development of a rules-based decision engine. Development used Java and Spring with custom JavaScript within components.

I was responsible for overseeing the development of a number of bespoke software systems. Including the complete development of a web-based acquisition system using ASP.NET MVC. Most significantly I orchestrated a solution for cross-platform interoperability between legacy back-end systems and the newly adopted sales platform using .NET and Apex (Salesforce). Following the transition into full time employment I received sponsorship for my part-time postgraduate degree.

Service-Oriented Architectures, Application Design and Modelling, Advanced Software Engineering, Web and Logical Database Development, Project and Change Management.

Web-based Data Management, Software Engineering, Advanced Web Applications, Graphics and Visualisation, Databases Systems, Advanced Programming and Scripting Languages.