The CV

Personal Statement

A conscientious full-stack engineer with the skills to lead teams and introduce processes and efficiencies to deliver complex projects on time and within budget.

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Skills

Work

Team Lead

July 2019 - Current

Achievements

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Energised and Aligned a High-Performing Team
Kept morale strong during company-wide turbulence by blending hands-on mentorship with clear technical direction. Brought frontline insights to strategic conversations with senior stakeholders to keep engineering tightly aligned with business priorities.
Reinvented Incident Response for a Global Bank
Designed and shipped live-editing, real-time updates, and embedded app support into our incident response tooling—empowering a major financial institution to retire their in-house system in favour of ours.
See how we did this
Modernised Our Stack: AngularJS to React Migration
Laid the groundwork for a major frontend migration by untangling logic from views and enabling robust unit testing—setting the stage for long-term scalability.
See how we future proofed our stack

Full Stack Engineer

June 2018 - July 2019

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Unlocked Apple & Google Pay Integrations
Engineered child-to-adult sync workflows via FIS's SOAP Gateway to power seamless Apple and Google Pay adoption. Curious how this bridged the gap between generations of tech?
Paved the Way for Microservices
Broke apart a legacy monolith by introducing RabbitMQ-based pub/sub queues—establishing a scalable architecture that set the stage for a microservices overhaul. Discover how we went from rigid to resilient.

Full Stack Engineer

June 2016 - June 2018

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Transformed Onboarding into a Business Driver
Led the creation of a frictionless onboarding journey—built with PHP ZF2 and Handlebars, and integrated with third-party SOAP/JSON APIs for compliance checks. Result? Easier signups and more conversions. See how thoughtful UX met regulatory rigour.
Showcased the Future with Open Banking
Built a secure, Dockerised Open Banking prototype using Lumen, OAuth, and SwaggerHub. Let clients visualise real-time holdings across third-party apps—boosting transparency and platform stickiness. Want to see the prototype that opened doors?
Embedded Risk Controls into the Trading Flow
Developed a compliance-first questionnaire gating access to complex instruments—empowering users to trade responsibly while keeping the platform regulator-ready. Learn how we made smart risk a core feature.

Full Stack Engineer

April 2014 - June 2016

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Redefined Trading with a Fresh UI & API Layer
Revamped trading capabilities for a full platform rebrand—Angular on the front, a NodeJS proxy under the hood, and smoother performance all around. Here's what modern trading feels like.

Team Lead/Engineer

Oct 2008 - April 2014

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Built a Secure Hub for Wealth Managers
Created a bespoke portal in vanilla PHP 4/5 (inspired by CodeIgniter) to give wealth managers instant, secure access to critical holdings data. Find out how legacy tech met enterprise-grade security.

Full Stack Engineer

April 2006 - Oct 2008

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Personalised Market Data with iLook
Contributed to iLook—a dynamic widget-based dashboard giving clients a tailored lens on market insights. Because one-size-fits-all doesn't work in finance.

Full Stack Engineer

March 2003 - April 2006

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Delivered Impactful Projects for Local Businesses
Designed and shipped e-shops, static sites, and lightweight CRMs—combining utility with craftsmanship to meet real-world needs. A reminder that small-scale can still mean big impact.

Education

	Cloud Practitioner July 2020
	ITIL foundation Nov 2017
	Agile Project Management Nov 2013
	Media Technology BSc June 2001
	A-levels and GCSEs June 1998