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Work Experience

• Principal Software Engineer, CV-Library

  Oct, 2023 - Present

  As a Principal Software Engineer, my job is to produce and promote internal best practice standards and to serve as a buffer between the Architecture and Development teams, assisting with the system designs, implementing PoC applications, and guiding their eventual development and delivery.

  • I was responsible for the OpenTelemetry instrumentation of our Perl and PHP applications, a project I was an early advocate for. As part of this, I released the first Perl implementation of this specification as a FOSS library, which I maintain

  • I was in charge of the migration of our deployment pipeline to Kubernetes using ArgoCD

  • I implemented the migration of our object storage from a self-hosted solution to one hosted on AWS across our Perl and Go services

• Team Lead, CV-Library

  Aug, 2020 - Oct, 20233 years 1 month

  As a Development Team Lead I managed two different teams of developers working on the delivery of features across multiple languages and domains.

  • I was in charge of the delivery of two large projects that became regular examples of success by management: a user-facing CV Builder, and the design of our internal search microservice

  • I lead the only team that was considered by management to have successfully bridged the cultural gap we developed across

  • I wrote a Perl agent for New Relic that we used to monitor our production code, and gave a talk about it at the Ephemeral Mini Conf

• Senior Developer, CV-Library

  Jul, 2020 - Aug, 20201 month

  As a Senior Developer, I took on more mentoring and leadership roles within my team, helping guide technology decisions.

• Developer, CV-Library

  Dec, 2017 - Jun, 20202 years 6 months

  I worked as part of a team maintaining a large codebase composed of several interconnected services implemented in Perl, PHP, and Go.

  • I was responsible for the delivery of multiple projects including the design of a (now largely outdated) feature toggle API specification and the implementation in Go of a bot detection microservice that sat transparently in our message pipeline

  • I became the maintainer of our Perl dependency tree, and was responsible for validating and delivering Perl upgrades to our platform, auditing them for security and resilience. I supervised three major and one minor language upgrades with no issues

• Research Facilitator in Speech Technology, University of Sheffield

  Apr, 2016 - Dec, 20171 year 8 months

  The CloudCAST project aimed to allow researchers, developers, and clinicians to create tools that benefit from state-of-the-art developments in speech technologies. The goal was to allow developers to connect their applications to it and receive speech recognition using models trained on a per-user level.

  • As the sole developer, I was in charge of the design of the API that would handle both the management of user projects and the training and use of speech recognisers

  • I implementated the bridge between our applications and the underlying ASR library using Kaldi and GStreamer for real time speech recognition

Projects Experience

• OpenTelemetry for Perl

  Nov, 2022 - Present

  OpenTelemetry is an initiative by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation to define a set of APIs and tools that can be used by libraries and applications to generate, collect, and export telemetry data that is vendor-agnostic.

  Since 2022 I’ve been working on a Perl implementation of this standard which is now in use in multiple production environments across a growing number of companies.

  • Presented at The London Perl Workshop 2024

  • Wrote an article about it in the Perl Advent Calendar 2024

  • Built on top of the experience of building a New Relic agent for Perl, presented at the Ephemeral Mini Conf

• PublicSuffix

  Jul, 2022 - Present

  An automatically-updated Raku library to query Mozilla's public suffix list

  • Changes to the upstream public suffix list are automatically checked daily, triggering a new release when needed

  • Presented at The Raku Conference 2022

• Cookie::Jar

  Jul, 2022 - Present

  A framework-independent Raku library to support HTTP cookie parsing and storage

  • Presented at The Raku Conference 2022

• Test2::Tools::DOM

  Mar, 2022 - Present

  A library to test HTML/XML-based DOM representations using Perl's Test2 framework

• Game::Entities

  May, 2021 - Present

  A dependency-free entity registry for use in Entity-Component-System designs

  • A port of EnTT, available for both Perl and Raku

  • Implemented using sparse sets for efficient storage of entity components

  • Presented at The Conference in the Cloud 2021

• Pop

  Mar, 2021 - Present

  An experimental 2D game engine for Raku, based on SDL2

• App::Lorea

  Nov, 2020 - Present

  A command-line utility to execute commands on filesystem changes

  • A Raku port of the reflex tool originally written in Go

• raku.land

  Nov, 2020 - Present

  A directory of Raku distributions, steadily becoming the de-facto place to browse for Raku code

  • Written in collaboration with James Raspass, entirely in Raku

  • Presented at The Raku Conference 2021

• HTTP::Tiny

  Oct, 2020 - Present

  A dependency-free HTTP 1.1 user agent library for Raku

  • A Raku port of the Perl library of the same name

  • Using only the standard library, it supports redirection, streaming requests and responses, multipart and URL-encoded form uploads, and correctly handles multipart responses to ranged requests

• Timer::Stopwatch

  Sep, 2020 - Present

  A Raku library to schedule and reset repeated time measurements

  • A Raku port of Go's time.Timer. Wrote an article about part of the development process

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