Experience
Yelp
Oct 2021 - Present
Manchester, UK
Software Engineer
Key member of the Stream Processing team responsible for Yelp's entire streaming infrastructure, transporting events reliably with Kafka and processing massive streams of data in real-time using Apache Flink and Beam.
- Architected large distributed systems scaling to store and crunch terabytes of data.
- Deep understanding of full end-to-end software development, deployment, and monitoring using Terraform, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Grafana, and Prometheus.
- Designed gold standard Flink/Beam service templates written in Python, Java/Scala & Golang.
- Debugged and resolved critical production issues and led high-impact projects including resolving state compatibility between Flink versions and creating a custom autotune system for Flink JVM resources.
Arm
Jul 2019 - Sep 2021
Manchester Area, UK
Cloud Engineer
Part of an internal start-up generating smart insights from IoT Camera devices running AI software for applications such as office space utilisation and monitoring.
- Played a critical part in the architecture of the back-end platform using Golang services for ingesting, processing, and data retrieval.
- Gained significant devops skills by managing resilient and scalable cloud services with Docker, Helm & Kubernetes.
- Used InfluxDB for real-time data processing and Postgres for managing configuration and data reports.
- Created front-end applications for analytics using Grafana, and configuration apps using React-Admin and Flutter.
BBC
May 2017 - Jun 2019
Media City, Manchester
Software Engineer
Worked across the DataLab (Connected Data) and Platform API teams, building recommendation systems and managing the critical backbone API for programme information.
- Developed microservices using Python hosted on Google Cloud Platform, utilizing PubSub, Cloud Functions, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Docker.
- Collaborated with data scientists and trained neural net models using TensorFlow for BBC News article recommendations.
- Maintained the backbone API handling thousands of data changes per minute using Clojure and AWS, enforcing strict TDD & Pair Programming.
ao.com
Sep 2015 - May 2017
Bolton, UK
Software Developer
- Designed, developed, and maintained high-traffic back-end software in C# .NET for handling payments and peak demand traffic (e.g. Black Friday).
- Served as Tech Lead on multiple agile projects, collaborating with finance, warehouse logistics, and customer service teams.
- Gained professional web development skills in HTML5, CSS, and NodeJS.
Education
BSc Computer Science (2.1)
The University of Manchester (2011 - 2014)
First Class honors for final year Android project. Extensive knowledge in Java, Agile Methods, and Distributed Systems.
Certifications
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
Issued Sep 2022
AWS Certified Developer - Associate
Issued Mar 2018
