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Work Experience

• Head of Engineering, Uswitch

  Oct, 2019 - Present

  Responsible for engineering, data, and analytics across the Uswitch organisation.

  • Led engineering, data, and analytics for millions of customers across energy, broadband, and mobiles comparison, including Confused.com.

  • Managed over 50 engineers and 14 analysts, focusing on team health and process improvements.

  • Grew Utrack energy management proposition from scratch to 100,000+ customers, with 60,000 connected to smart meters.

  • Oversaw consumer and partner-facing technical solutions handling massive traffic events like Black Friday.

  • Ingested and analysed petabyte-scale energy consumption data across hundreds of thousands of meter points annually.

  • Reported directly to Group CTO, leading businesses generating £100m+ revenue.

  • Core technologies: JS (React, Astro, Node/Deno/Bun), Clojure, Python, Ruby, PostgreSQL, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, GraphQL, BigQuery, DBT.

• Head of Technology - Energy, Uswitch

  Jan, 2019 - Oct, 20199 months

  Led technical delivery of the largest business unit in the group.

  • Delivered £60m+ annual revenue through technical leadership.

  • Oversaw rewrite of core consumer apps from Ruby to React/Typescript.

  • Rebuilt delivery teams post-company acquisition.

• Principal Software Engineer, Uswitch

  Aug, 2017 - Jan, 20191 year 5 months

  Led re-imagining and rollout of technical platforms for Uswitch.

  • Clojure, Ruby, Javascript, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS.

  • Built platform to support UK’s leading energy comparison site, handling 1,000+ requests per second.

• Lead Developer, Uswitch

  Dec, 2011 - Aug, 20175 years 8 months

  Lead multiple engineering teams across the Uswitch organisation

  • Clojure, Ruby, Rails, C#, nginx, Postgresql, Mysql, MongoDB, Redis, AWS

  • Lead dev on Uswitch's credit card product. Took an ageing .Net platform and rewrote in Rails, increasing maintainability and pace of delivery.

  • Key member of energy back office team which revolutionised operational stability, rewriting a number of core apps in Clojure.

• Lead Developer, Just Shops (Uswitch)

  Mar, 2011 - Dec, 20119 months

  Lead development on an incubated e-commerce startup

  • Ruby on Rails, Shopify, nginx, Postgresql, Mysql

  • This startup incubated with Uswitch's parent company was centred around targeting ultra-niche ppc terms around pet supplies, and testing consumer appetite by spinning up an online shop to serve those needs, drop-shipping products when ordered from Amazon. Sucessful shops became sites in their own right. As a member of a small dev team (2-3), I was responsible for reacting to consumer demand, developing, opening and optimising sites based on interest, and improving the inventory management system when we eventually purchased a warehouse.

• Software Engineer, Uswitch

  Mar, 2008 - Mar, 20113 years

  • C#, Javascript, MSSQL, IIS 6/7

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