London Area, United Kingdom
A self motivated and confident Information Technology professional, possessing established development skills and a strong aptitude for system architecture and design in both short and long-term roles. A proficient, technically adept, approachable person, with extensive experience in developing large diverse systems and implementation projects.
• Orchestrated and supported the launch of the unified Discovery+ / HBO app on CTV and STB platforms, delivering day-one releases across Samsung, LG, Vizio, Xbox and other devices in EMEA and LATAM. • Led a multi-vendor, cross-region engineering organisation, steering design and delivery of critical features—including in-app purchases and consistent UX, while decommissioning legacy platforms. • Migrated build-and-deploy observability and SDLC pipelines to modern cloud infrastructure, cutting run costs and boosting reliability, scalability and maintainability. • Embedded a reliability & telemetry culture by standardising New Relic, Sentry and PagerDuty KPIs, running post-mortems, and championing “shift-left” quality practices. • Synchronised roadmaps with product, TPM, ad-tech and player SDK teams, ensuring seamless feature hand-offs and accelerated time-to-market. • Built high-performing teams, mentored engineers, introduced technology upskilling, and created clear promotion pathways.
Leading software engineering teams of more than 60+ in the design and development of high-performance software systems and consumer facing products for BBC Media Services. Leading the teams to have an effective vision, strategy and business case that supports their product and wider divisional and BBC strategies. Steering the teams providing expertise in commercial and technical conversations with vendors for various projects including AWS streaming services ( MedaiConvert, MediaLive, MediaConnect) as well as other vendors
• Revitalised the company's technology strategy, building a robust DevOps strategy, enhanced operational efficiency, and drove meaningful cost savings, while rolling out revenue-generating digital-transformation solutions for new clients. • Led technical maturity assessments and strategic improvements across multiple client projects, implementing stability, scalability, and monitoring solutions (OpenTracing, Prometheus), delivering roadmaps, enhancing cloud readiness, and providing best practices for secure and efficient AWS infrastructure management. • Supported the "meetup-mates" community, fostering networking and mentorship for over 200 engineers. • Delivered tailored cloud and scalability strategies for clients, enabling business growth and operational stability.
Nationwide Agile@Scale / Digital projects , Working initially as part of a central cloud on-boarding for projects that are moving or being born in the cloud , guiding teams onto new platforms that are being built for container based services. • Wrote papers and guidelines on multi cloud strategies which include some actual hands on implementation examples in Azure. • Relationship and demand management outward facing to projects/hubs/journeys to capture requirements , guide through to what logging, tooling , CI/CD deployments including pull request reviews and identify gaps for further backlog development • Written HLDs around integration at enterprise level with MongoDB Atlas and AWS Central services. • Advised Open Banking teams on various design aspects including Application logging patterns in distributed systems , network policies design in Kubernetes deployments and namespace quotas & limits. • Aided on larger architectural guidance around a CDE for use PCI DCC based services that wish to leverage cloud services in Amazon.