Software Developer based in Edinburgh, UK.

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Senior Software Engineer @ Rasa (Nov 2020 -> Present) Machine learning tooling company

Senior IC and GQL technical lead on Studio project, a greenfeld rebuild of our core ML learning reinforcement product ofering using GQL and subscriptons. The aim here is to provide beter user experience by integraton of real tme updates using subscriptons, increasing brand cohesion through a design library based on Chakra UI, and increase developer velocity through experience improvements such as introducing the graphql- codegen package. Rasa Studio was released Nov 2023.

Before we started the Studio product I lead technical advisement on product discovery to product leadership for new product area, including technological choices, stafng estimaton, scope, and timelines. I have contnued to be involved at a high level in estimations and scope management.

I have lead Incident response to client scaling problems and where necessary debugging client’s setups remotely, considered to be one of the most knowledgeable people at the company on our legacy codebase.

Lead several initatives including:

1. Revamping and streamlining our Senior Fullstack Interview process, resultng in a 2 day reducton in our recruitng timeline and increased confdence in candidate ofers.
2. Creating a structured process for onboarding new team members onto our legacy codebase, resultng in a signifcant improvement in our responsiveness to client bugs as well as freeing up senior engineers to work on product development.
3. With new stack, have worked on introducing guidance documentation establishing ‘norms’ of how we write our Frontend and Backend code.
4. Technical discovery on visual programming language allowing users to create Rasa bots without having to write YAML.
5. Introducing Real Time Collaboration to our legacy stack using websockets. Experienced in interviewing ICs at all levels, as well as EM candidates. I take a lot of enjoyment from providing mentorship to junior members of my team and seeing them grow as engineers as well as assistng other groups such as Codebar and FrauenLoop.

Software Engineer @ Formidable Labs (Dec 2018 -> Nov 2020) Software Consultancy focused on React, Node, GraphQL

• Consulted and built various client projects covering E-commerce, HR administration, and data analytics/ visualisation.
• Particular technical focus on CI/CD processes, Frontend UI/UX, and GraphQL.
• Worked on client focussed skills throughout.
• Worked in distrubuted teams and clients in the US.
• Mentored junior developers on personal-development.
• Key technologies: React, GQL, Node, Serverless, Cypress, Docker, CircleCI
• OSS: Maintained and developed 4 OSS projects
  • RunPKG
  • Spectacle
  • React Live
  • Documentation for a number of Formidable OSS projects Example: https://formidable.com/open-source/spectacle/.

Software Engineer @ MOO (Jan 2018 -> Dec 2018) Design and print company.

• Worked on core design SPA.
• Key technologies: React, Python, Gitlab CI

• CI/CD in a build-free world
• RunPKG V1

• Game disc beauty a project to better understand using SVG elements and hand-coding SVG paths.

• Codebar Ex-organiser, changed focus to mentoring.

• QueerCode Ex-organiser.

• Self-taught web developer 2017 -> Present.
• LLM Biotechnology Law and Ethics 2015.
• BSc Biochemistry 2014.