Applications Architect
CompareTheMarket (2018 - present)
Technical product owner for our Pricing platform and Partner Risk Mapping service. These
systems are the 1st class citizens of the business and hosted in AWS
Responsible for the architectural vision for the new Pricing Platform at CompareTheMarket.
Focused on developing scalability, stability and security for the system, keeping the
customer at the centre of our business.
Moved the platform over to a micro-service architecture with the target of nine '9s'
Intra day deployments and better scalability under heavy load, thus reducing our costs by 25%
Brought in new real-time quotability system allowing fast feedback of issues and problems at
our providers. This reduced our time-to-fix from hours/days down to minutes.
Chair of Technical forum, and many working groups, including concepting and rolling out
contract testing to the department, common logging across teams and our service catalogue
automation
Attended many tech leadership, speaking and influencing workshops where the lessons
learned were implemented in real world to bring people along in the journey at
CompareTheMarket.
Technical Lead Developer
CompareTheMarket (2016 - 2018)
Leading a team which concepted, developed and maintained the new Pricing Platform. Developed
with security, scalability and diagnostic capability up front
Supporting up to 10 journey and retrieval transactions a second and hosted in AWS implementing
EC2, Lambda, S3 and CodeDeploy
Swagger specifications defining REST endpoints to communicate with the system all secured
by bearer token through OAuth
Mentoring and helping form the career paths of the developers in the team
Consultant Lead developer
CompareTheMarket (Energy and Motor Journeys 2013 - 2016)
Architected and developed with the team the concept of taking a picture of you energy bill
on an IOS app and getting a quote
MongoDB use for storage and hosted in AWS. AngularJS for front end
Admninistration site in bootstrap using AngularJS
Developed a re-buy portal for Customers to one-click for renewal
Consultant
Easyjet (Seat purchase: Consultant (2012 - 2013)
Part of the team developing one of the first seat selection services by the airlines. MVC and
knockoutJS solution hosted on Microsoft Azure
Developed Azure ServiceBus solution for 3rd party provider to access Restful API to pass
pluscard data for real-time validation. Required to allow validation of card at booking time
Implemented PHP client for 3rd party to access windows Azure ServiceBus
Consultant
Tesco Entertainment (2011 - 2012)
Part of a team developing new functionality on the www.tescoentertainment.com website and supporting applications. Using Agile (SCRUM) to plan and present on bi-weekly sprints
Developed concept Android application supporting purchase and download of MP3 tracks within time and budget allowed
Maintained and developed new functionality on the Endeca search service used by the main entertainment site
Developed the price cross out (was/now/save) for all 400,000 products and saw successful
implementation to live
Consultant
Cambridge University (OCR) (2008 - 2011)
Part of a team developing new functionality for the main OCR Examination portal for Cambridge University. A site that supports a base of 35,000 different centres across the world managing their candidate entries and results through one site. Developed under Agile (SCRUM) split into bi-weekly sprints and presentations using new MVC design pattern
Lead developer to upgrade existing disconnected entry sites into one site where users can manage their GCSE and Vocational Qualification data in one area saving users time when entering candidate entries
Responsible for bringing Code review and new unit testing methods into the department
Developing process of silent deploys removing site downtime in many cases
Director
TouchScreenData (Director 2004 - 2008)
Formed company developing online management systems predominately written in C# .NET 2.0/3.5
but small scale sites developed in LAMP
Tendering and presenting our solutions requiring good communication and the ability to
describe technical solutions to a wide audience
Other
1994 - 2004
Thompson Reuters
developer writing financial applications for the city.
Merrlll Lynch WAP site developed in PHP and Windows based apps writtne in .NET 1.0.
Implemented world cup SMS messaging service with Tib Rendezvous messaging platform
ICS Triplex
Safety Critical systems for the Oil and Nuclear industry.
Embedded software development with external company audits
Emerson Liebert
Developing embedded software control systems for Unninterrutible Power supply units