Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
• Worked in close cooperation with designers, sales team and fellow developers to manage a set
of 10+ client CMS sites. Spurred by the quality of this work, the company gained millions in
value, quadrupled in size and grew from a startup into a leader with a multinational presence.
• Delivered millions of U.K. residents a reliable tax management service, that remained available
during all peak usage periods, as part of an agile team in partnership with the Government.
• Engineered a five-fold test suite speedup, enabling it to run in minutes instead of an hour and
thereby drastically increasing the rate at which the team could get new code into production.
• Maintained a robust set of microservices by relying on TDD, CI and collaboration with QAs.
• Participated in Scrum and Kanban processes to efficiently deliver stable incremental changes.
Technologies: Scala, Play, MongoDB, Jenkins, Kibana, Jira, Git, Linux, Drupal, JavaScript, Apache.