Tech Lead/Senior Software Engineer

Staff Engineer @Sylvera (contract, perm)

• Carbon offsetting platform

  • Planning, developing, and delivering the replatforming of a carbon compensation management toolset
  • typescript, fastify, prisma, snowflake, dbt, postgres, aws, ecs, graphql, react, storymapping

Senior Software Engineer @Nando's (contract)

• Insourcing of Deliveroo orders processing

  • In charge of planification, development and delivery of a cost-effective Deliveroo orders fulfilment system to replace a third-party provider solution
  • Migration and scale up to 40k orders/d and 420 restaurants across the UK and Ireland
  • rust, gcp, pubsub, load testing, monitoring policies, shadow deployment, SLAs, kds

• Development and maintenance of services generating menus and handling restaurant orders

  • Feature development on Menu domain management toolset supporting trials, feature flags and custom pricing strategies
  • Development of a bespoke PIM (Product Information Management) as a replacement tool
  • rust, graphQL, postgres, typescript, nodeJS, nextJS, gcp, terraform, argoCD, jupyter notebooks

Senior Software Engineer @Snyk
(Snyk provides automated software security checks)

• Development of cloud-hosting SCM integrations with the Snyk platform

  • Development and maintenance of Snyk integrations with SCMs such as bitbucket, github or gitlab
  • Optimisation of Imports and Dependencies Checks flows (throttling, resilience, scheduling)
  • Support of business customers
  • nodeJS, typescript, docker, argoCD

Lead Consultant @ThoughtWorks

• Tech lead - BP (June 2021 - January 2022)

  • Setup of an innovation framework within BP's innovation Hub
  • Technical lead of a team of software engineers, data scientists and ML engineers
  • Steering and support of technical investigation work (PoC, PoV)
  • azure ml, azure devops, python, knowledge graph, jupyter notebooks, pandas, digital twin

• Tech lead - Cabinet Office (SC cleared) (May 2020 - June 2021)

  • Tech lead for a team of 6 to 12 software engineers
  • App delivery supporting UK's Security Vetting system
  • Technical direction and implementation of the new system
  • jenkins, aws, cloudformation, dynamoDB, lambda, cognito, service fabric, python, contract testing, typescript, lerna, react, XState

• SDLC transformation consultant (for 3 months)

  • Digital Transformation for a Scandinavian bank provider (NDA)
  • Left shifting of the existing pipelines
  • Teams adoption support
  • 4-key metrics, bash, jenkins, bats testing

Lead Consultant @HMCTS (contract)

• Software engineering practice changes management

  • Data gathering to provide measurable and tangible support to cross-team collaboration practice changes
  • Support in API Gateway Management setup
  • Development, Support and guidance in the adoption of contract testing
  • Use of Azure cloud infra, especially ACR, AKS and APIM
  • pact, python, jupyter notebooks, plotly, pandas, bash, make, openAPI

• Senior software engineer - Pipelines optimisation

  • Optimisation of CI pipelines - Jenkins and Azure DevOps
  • Gains of several minutes per build adding up to hours for all pipelines in the org
  • Docker best practices implementation across org - cache layer re-use, security, multi-staging
  • Evangelization around BPs - feedback gathering from the teams, presentations to client's tech leads
  • nodeJS, docker, azure devops, jenkins, AKS, Helm

Platform engineer @Deutsche Bank (contract)

• Senior software engineer

  • Member of a small central team dedicated to serving structuring components to product teams
  • Build and maintain a set of technical tools and libraries for general product development
  • Reorganisation and velocity improvement of pipelines towards CD
  • typescript, react, docker, bash, python, jenkins, groovy (pipelines)

• Leading the implementation of a design system

  • Automation of the workflow between visual design and UI development across the organisation
  • POC and brownbags about smart contracts and cryptocurrencies - Stellar Lumens
  • GNUmake, nodeJS, sketch, sketch-tool, design tokens, redhat openshift

Tech Lead @Buildit (digital transformation studio)

• Tech lead

  • Onboarding of several Software Engineers team for Lloyds Banking Group as part of a ramp up of their capabilities
  • The overall objective was to shape brand new teams so they would be ready to deliver value to the client on day one
  • Discovery of existing practices and tools, and the setup of a new way of working
  • Training of newly onboarded engineers, especially around react, redux, client-side state management and CD
  • Acting as tech lead on several projects across several months to then hand over to the client's tech leads
  • nodeJS, bash, react, redux, TDD

• Scale up of development environments setup

  • Participated in the implementation of development tools and environment in line with CD capabilities
  • Supported adoption of rancher, docker and declaratives build pipelines - Workshops, community management
  • docker, CD, CI, aws, rancher, jenkins, groovy (pipelines)

• Technical consultancy

  • Investigate organisation, Lloyds Banking Group mostly
  • Advise, help shaping teams in more empowered, cross-functional and leaner ways of working
  • Recruitment interviews for Buildit and its clients
  • Brown bags and presentations to clients - CI, docker, elm, redux
  • Building of CI and CD deployment pipelines - jenkins, docker, rancher
  • holacracy

Software Engineer @IMGGaming

• Senior software engineering

  • Part of small IT team (5 people and counting), building sports live-event monitoring tools
  • Development of real-time SPAs
  • Handling of CI and production apps containerization
  • Development of a websockets multiplex service
  • React/redux architecture evangelization
  • nodeJS, react, redux, websockets, webpack, codeship, docker, aws, qwerty 🤷‍♂️

Relocating to London... ✈

Tech Lead @Viadeo (professional social network)

• Chapter Lead (frontend & middleend)

  • Community management/mentoring
  • Software ownership: architecture, roadmaps, cross-team synchronisation for ~30 engineers
  • Automation evangelist (Unit and functional tests in particular)
  • nodeJS, expressjs, mocha, zombiejs, selenium, jenkins

• Heading of nodeJS expert team

  • Setup of a new software architecture based on expressJS to replace java/jsp legacy, able to support a 6M users platform
  • Hiring, roadmaps and followups
  • nodeJS, ramda, expressjs, promises - bluebird, clustering, loads of middleware, ELK stack see more

Head of UI/front-end development @Viadeo

• Recruitment / Management

  • Seeking, interviews, tests, integration
  • Projects planning, mentoring
  • Built and managed a team of 15 FEDs and designers

• Development

  • xslt, html, css, js, prototypejs, jQuery, photoshop, illustrator

• FED architecture management

  • Maintainability, server-side and client-side MVC, automated testing, documentation
  • Build homemade CSS and client-side MVC framework
  • mocha, jasmine, less, icon font, coreJS ~ kind of backbone before backbone see more

Front-end team leader @Viadeo

• Technical management

  • 3-mates UI dev team

• Integration, UI design

  • Web pages and email mockups, icons
    xslt, jsp, html, css, js, prototyping

UI developer @Viadeo

• cross-browser integration
• Web Design
• xslt, css, js, photoshop, illustrator

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Artillery Soldier @93ème RAM