Prefatory

I am an engineer by trade and education. I matured my experience working for organisations of any flavour and size, from small hyper-scale startups to Fortune 500. Over the past 7+ years in the field, I have worked in 3 different countries and 10+ companies. Today I work as an independent consultant helping organisations succeed. I am currently based in London, United Kingdom but I am location independent and can travel occasionally if required.

Know-How

Here's a non-exaustive list of the services I provide

• Solution Architecture: By providing a strategic and high-level lens on your organisations problems and needs, I transform business objectives, aims and aspirations into working software. From the analysis, ideation, up until the delivery of your solution. I keep a strong focus on delivering Cloud-native solutions with the possible highest cost-adjusted quality and reliability.
• Site Reliability Engineering: Whether you have a legacy infrastructure in place you want to modernise, or you are starting from scratch, I can help you deliver a more resilient and cost-effective infrastructure for your team by implementing the latest CI/CD industry best-practices.
• Data Engineering: Data is the new oil. It's everywhere and it's becoming increasingly more valuable every day. As you generate and accrue more data you need high-quality and resilient processes to store, transform, process and protect it. I have matured experience in data projects and I can help you succeed.

Relevant Work

• Cloud Architect (Consulting) @ G-Research
  G-Research is Europe's leading quantitative research shop. By using the latest scientific techniques, we produce world-beating predictive research and build advanced technology to analyse the world’s data
  
  Subject matter expert for design and delivery of self-service infrastructure provisioning tools. Enabling on-premise management of Petabytes of data using Go (Golang) / terraform / EMC Isilon / VAST Storage.
  
  
• Cloud Architect (Consulting) @ Atos
  Atos (EPA:ATO) is a global leader in digital transformation with 110,000 employees and over €12bn in revenues. Our clients include a plethora of organisations, amongst with the UK department of defence, the International Olympics Committee, the NHSx and many more.
  
  Reduced External Asset Projection process from 8 hours to 3 minutes, a 99% improvement, through the migration of manual in-house workflow harnessing the power of a fully cloud native architecture.
  
  
• Cloud Architect (Consulting) @ Royal Dutch Shell
  Shell (LON:RDSA) remains undisputed leader as global supplier of finished lubricants for 13 consecutive years. As part of Shell Marine I'm working on Accuport, a platform for lubricants procurement.
  
  Strategy & development of Accuport™ - a self-service portal aimed at integrating the existing lubricant procurement process into a fully digital and cloud native architecture using Go / GCP / BigQuery.
  
  
• Software Engineer (Consulting) @ Open Banking
  Open Banking is the entity that has been set up by the UK Competition & Markets Authority to create innovative technology (APIs), data standards and the governance structures which have enabled the UK to implement Open Banking in 2018/2019 and beyond.
  
  Enabled major UK banks - Santander, Investec, Danske Bank - to get through Open Banking functional certification for the Open Banking Read/Write APIs & Dynamic Client Registration Protocol (RFC 7591)
  
  
• Software Engineer (Consulting) @ bud
  After securing a $20mm investment from Goldman Sachs and HSBC, Bud moved into hyper-scale mode and kicked-off the development of services to enable state-of-the-art financial aggregation and financial intelligence for consumers and fintechs. I have joined the organisation to design & implement resilient and highly-critical systems to enable Bud's mission.
  Designed and Developed with a close-knit team a high-throughout, low-latency broker service which enables smart data enrichment on financial data through a Topological Sort algorithm for service and dependency resolution
  
  
• Software Engineer @ trivago
  trivago's (NYSE:TRVG) world leading metasearch with over 120mm monthly visitors operates through a CPC (cost-per-click) advertising business model enabling third parties to advertise on trivago's search page. Billions of bids are places each day on trivago by adverstisers.
  
  Within trivago's own pricing and bidding control system, I have been a key contributor to the automated bidding system to help small advertisers (OTAs/Hotel chains) better leverage their market presence and get cheaper CPCs on trivago using MySQL / PHP / Hadoop

Other Ventures

• Golang Cafe is a Golang Job Board. Looking for Go (Golang) developers? Hire your next engineer on Golang Cafe. More than 70,000+ people visit the site every month.
• Who Is Mining is a website that allows people to check whether a website is mining cryptocurrency. More than 3,500+ people visit the site every month.

Connect

I work exclusively on a contract basis. Unsolicited job offers of permanent employment will be ignored. For relevant enquires you can reach me out via email at