Work

Experience

Staff Engineer @ Kaluza

Mar 2023 - Present

Scope: Staff-level IC leading modernisation of a high-risk legacy client estate across APIs, Kafka, and platform boundaries, aligning migration strategy, standards, and cross-team delivery.

Key Work:

• Led modernisation of a formally tracked legacy estate of 30+ services and interfaces, reducing it to a small number of critical migrations over 2 years.
• Built tracking, ownership mapping, dashboards, and source-of-truth documentation that made decommissioning safer and more predictable.
• Aligned multiple teams, Staff/Principal forums, and client leadership on migration sequencing, standards, roadmap priorities, and risk decisions.
• Guided legacy teams toward company-standard API and integration patterns, reducing ambiguity and support burden while enabling decomposition.
• Led modernisation planning across Orex, a critical integration layer for web, mobile, Salesforce, and internal systems, helping reduce incidents and restore confidence in migration progress.

Staff Engineer @ Hopin

Feb 2021 - Jul 2022

Scope: Platform reliability, observability, and cost efficiency during a period of COVID-driven hyper-growth.

Key Work:

• Reduced cloud infrastructure spend by 30% through storage optimisation, platform migration, and traffic shaping for video delivery.
• Consolidated and strengthened a weak observability setup across metrics and logging, improving visibility into platform behaviour and reducing MTTR.
• Improved video quality and performance in a meeting platform where streaming reliability was central to the product experience.
• Worked with one team and multiple partner teams on breakout rooms and adaptive streaming quality, testing, and monitoring for virtual events, contributing to Patent US-11522934-B1.

Senior Developer (Payments) @ Tesco

Oct 2019 - Feb 2021 · Contract

Scope: IC-heavy payments engineering focused on resilience, security, and modernisation of business-critical gateway infrastructure.

Key Work:

• Contributed to modernisation of a legacy Windows-based payments platform, clarifying boundaries around security, authentication, and service ownership.
• Helped evolve payment flows toward Kubernetes-based services and event-driven patterns, supporting new payment methods and more maintainable platform architecture.
• Worked on bank reconciliation and alerting in a commercially sensitive domain where failure handling and operational visibility had direct impact.

Technical Lead @ Palace Skateboards

May 2016 - Oct 2019 · Contract

Scope: Early technical leadership for a fast-growing commerce business expanding across regions.

Key Work:

• Joined as the first engineering hire and helped build the technical foundations for growth from a single-store operation to a multi-region commerce business.
• Designed platform architecture for high-velocity product drops where traffic spikes and inventory contention were commercially critical.
• Built backend systems for real-time inventory handling and operational reliability during peak-demand releases.
• Worked closely with the business where engineering decisions directly affected sales, operations, and customer experience.

Previous Work

Education

MSc Equivalent - Architecture and Distributed Systems
Instituto Superior Técnico (2000 - 2006)