Curriculum Vitae

Lopay

Senior software engineer at Lopay, a fintech company. I've done a lot of varied work across the product here — a fuller writeup is on the way.

Jelly

Owned engineering end-to-end in a lean team alongside one other senior engineer and two non-technical founders — frontend, backend, security, DevOps/SRE, solutions architecture, design, PM and QA.

• Led a major codebase overhaul: resolved substantial security issues, updated dependencies and improved maintainability.
• Built a custom websocket layer on AWS API Gateway + GoLang instead of paying for Pusher, for real-time frontend updates.
• Designed an advanced CRUD permissioning system, closing security gaps and tightening access control.
• Revamped the frontend with TailwindCSS and a new component library from Figma, redesigning the signup/onboarding flow.
• Led end-to-end POS integrations with Epos Now and Square, from research to self-service frontend.

albelli-Photobox Group (APG)

Joined post-merger to unify backend systems and was made Team Lead of the Orchestration team, owning a key GraphQL application.

• Led a new Orchestration built on GraphQL federation — a company first — with six independent subgraphs.
• Migrated federation from Apollo Gateway to Apollo Router, run as a container on ECS.
• On-call through the Black Friday → Christmas peak for a high-volume printed-photo-products business.

Aviva

Worked across a large microservice estate where nearly every service was an API Gateway + DynamoDB + Lambda, deployed with the AWS CDK.

• First professional GoLang and AWS CDK work — jumped straight in and made several significant infrastructure changes.
• Diagnosed and fixed elusive multi-microservice API failures using AWS X-Ray and CloudWatch Log Insights.

iTech Media

Green-field work where I was solely responsible for my pillar's infrastructure. My squad became the first in the company self-sufficient in DevOps/SRE, setting the gold standard.

• Standardised Infrastructure as Code with CloudFormation; ran everything on ECS/ECR with Bitbucket Pipelines + GitHub Actions.
• Ran a 3-tier network architecture with SecretsManager-generated DB passwords and GuardDuty + CloudTrail monitoring.
• Built at-edge logic on Cloudflare Workers (SvelteKit/Tailwind/TS) for localised content, internal APIs, logging and alerting.
• On the data team, built import/ingest/deliver TypeScript services on Lambda with SQS, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB and AWS SAM.

Muzz

Scaled and maintained infrastructure for 4M+ users in a fast-paced startup, working with MySQL tables containing billions of rows.

• Took ownership of the internal moderation tool and rebuilt it in Vue within two months, consolidating the backend to PHP with a fresh UX/UI and significant performance gains.

Hire-A-Lite

My first professional engineering role — building and scaling a bespoke Laravel SaaS product end-to-end, from feature work through to the AWS infrastructure it ran on.

• Built and shipped features across a large Laravel SaaS — queues, mailing, events, websockets, service containers, Eloquent and custom Laravel packages.
• Designed and operated AWS infrastructure with CodePipeline / CodeBuild / CodeDeploy, delivering zero-downtime deployments to a cluster of 30+ servers.
• Cut my teeth on production ops — CI/CD, server fleet management and the day-to-day reality of running a live SaaS for paying customers.