Experience
2023 — Now
2023 — Now
New York, New York, United States
Tech lead for greenfield software development initiatives for Supply Chain Risk Management, and team-wide subject matter expert on integration with previous software projects I have worked on at Moody's/PassFort.
2022 — 2023
2022 — 2023
New York, United States
Transition into the Moody's Analytics KYC New Product Innovations department to aid in delivering new product offerings through the PassFort platform.
Note: retitled to reflect current titling. Contemporary title was Assistant Director - Software Engineer
2022 — 2022
London, England, United Kingdom
Job title realigned with other departments at Moody's Analytics and consistent with career progression since starting position.
2019 — 2022
London, United Kingdom
Full-stack software engineer at a prominent RegTech startup acquired by Moody's Analytics in 2021, working with Rust and Python microservices in a production Kubernetes deployment, taking advantage of continuous integration and deployment, as well as front-end work with React and Flow.
Technologies used:
* Git version control
* Python 3, including commonly used technologies
* Flask microframework
* SQLAlchemy
* Celery
* Rust programming language
* Production experience of deploying Rust web services in a service oriented architecture
* Kubernetes for production deployment
* Docker/Dockerfile authoring
* PostgreSQL (query authoring, performance profiling, schema design)
* MySQL (query authoring, performance profiling, schema design)
* Linux/UNIX administration tools (bash and other shells, awk, sed, strace, others)
* React (inc. experience w/ React Hooks)
* OpenAPI/Swagger schema authoring
Highlights:
* Involvement and contribition to incident investigations and management
* Responsible for scoping, designing and planning new feature work
* Major contributions to internal developer tooling
* Design and maintenance of publicly facing APIs, including authoring API documentation
* Hands-on involvement with the onboarding and mentoring of new engineers
* Management and delivery of a major project with an external partner, as well as ongoing development collaboration
* Frequent involvment with infrastructure-scale initiatives for performance, reliability and observability improvements
* Ongoing maintenance and improvement for a PySpark-based ETL process for in-product customer insight and analytics
2016 — 2018
Olney, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Customer facing support, maintenance and delivery of over 100 responsive websites, single page applications, and mobile apps, in addition to improvement of the development and deployment workflow of various software projects to make software projects for our customers more reliable while delivering results quickly.
In addition, during breathing periods, I perform several important qualtity-of-life and business improvement roles.
Technologies Used:
* PHP 5.4-7.2 with internal MVC framework
* Frontend Javascript (Vanilla/jQuery)
* Frontend styling in SCSS (using Bootstrap and internal front-end design frameworks)
* Advanced Single Page Applications in AngularJS 1.x + Angular 2+ in both JavaScript and TypeScript
* Native mobile application development w/ NativeScript
* Git Version Control
* MariaDB/MySQL
* NodeJS/Gulp based asset pipeline developed internally
Highlights:
* Responsible for GDPR compliance work on several dozen client websites
* Frequent input and valuable insight on information security concerns and best practice
* Advocacy for switching to an automated CI/CD deployment process for client projects
* Close collaboration and iteration with product designers
* Developed several innovative and bespoke high performance visual effects for client brochure websites
* Lead a comprehensive design and technical modernisation effort on the company's flagship CMS
Education
Elizabeth Woodville School
A-Level: Maths
2005 — 2012