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• Contract role back at Ennismore — working on version 2 of the hotel room booking engine.
• Leading new Stripe integration and architecture.

Go · DataDog · AWS (Lambda, S3, DynamoDB) · SST · Temporal

• Initial 3-month contract via Methods to the Office for National Statistics.
• Software to improve the publishing workflow for data visualisation teams.

Go · AWS (S3, DocumentDB) · Kafka · Hashicorp (Nomad / Consul / Vault) · GitHub · Concourse · Terraform

• 3-month short-term contract.
• Feature enhancements to the RESTful API layer around the enterprise retail platform XML service used for in-store Smart Shop, Groceries Online, and Uber Eats / Deliveroo integrations.

Go · gRPC · Protobuf · Postgres · AWS (ECS, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB) · GitHub · Jenkins · Terraform · Grafana · New Relic · ELK · Docker

• Initially a 6-month contract, extended then converted to perm in April 2020.
• Part of a small team delivering an in-house hotel room booking system.
• Greenfield project; in production for 11 hotel tenants by January 2021.
• By Sep 2021: ~7,000 bookings/month generating £5M in monthly revenue.
• Integrated with Oracle Opera (legacy SOAP), Stripe and Adyen for payments, and various RMS/CRM systems via HTTP APIs.
• Microservice, event-driven architecture written primarily in Go (plus one Kotlin service), running on managed Kubernetes (EKS) with internal gRPC.

Go · Kotlin · gRPC · Protobuf · Postgres · AWS (EKS, SQS, ECR) · Kubernetes · GitHub Actions · Drone · Terraform · Grafana · LogDNA · Kong · Docker · Stripe · Adyen

• Initial 6-month contract plus one extension.
• Part of the Money Claims service for HM Courts and Tribunals Service.
• Team of 30 running a hybrid Agile model — mix of Kanban and Scrum.
• Owned several key migrations: Azure App Service → AKS; case data centralised to a single source of truth; IdAM upgrade from in-house to ForgeRock.

Azure (DevOps CI/CD) · Jenkins · Travis · Kubernetes · Flux · Docker · Terraform · GitHub · Postgres · Spring Boot · NodeJS · TypeScript

• Senior backend engineer on the sports-betting odds comparison platform.

• Long-tenure engineering leadership role spanning many platforms and stacks.

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When I’m not writing code:

• Golf — playing more than I’m good at; happiest on a quiet course at dawn.
• Squash — short, sharp, fast — the antidote to a long day at the screen.
• Football — supporting from the sidelines and the sofa.
• Film & TV — a steady diet of thrillers, sci-fi, and the occasional prestige drama.
• Fiction — see also reading — currently somewhere between literary and crime.