Team Lead, Games Services, Gamesys Ltd.
August 2016 - December 2018Gamesys Ltd.
Heading up a team of Python developers, building and maintaining systems to support our games and players, using Django/Flask/Tornado on Google AppEngine, Container Engine, Compute Engine, and Flexible Environment, reporting and analytics with BigQuery and DataDog, relational and non-relational data in CloudSQL & DataStore, and a host of other products in Google's suite of cloud based tools being used.
Managing the product backlogs, co-ordinating with product owners and project managers, staff training, and review/assessment, recruitment of new staff, long term planning, requirements gathering, technical roadmap, working with other team leads to move the department forwards.
Senior Python developer, Games Services, Gamesys Ltd.
May 2016 - August 2016Gamesys Ltd.
Helping to maintain and enhance a suite of products used for supporting and running games at scale on Facebook, Apple AppStore, GooglePlay and Amazon AppStore
Lead Backend Developer & Devops Engineer, Scoota Ltd.
Jun 2013 - May 2016Scoota Ltd.
Product development on a suite of Ad creation/serving tools, Initially working on the front-end (JavaScript SPA), but moving into the back-end (Django micro-service API's), and dev-ops (Ansible, Terraform on AWS)
Making use of a wide range of AWS tools and services, including EC2, ELB's, S3, CloudFront, Redshift, Elastic Transcoder, Kinesis, RDS and a whole bunch more.
Full Stack Developer, Scoota Ltd.
Dec 2011 - Jun 2013Scoota Ltd.
Involved in a lot of production work, high pressure, tight deadlines, quick turnarounds, mainly microsites, and campaign work. Written in Python, PHP, ASPX, HTML, CSS and Javascript.
IT & Communications, British Design Innovation
Jan 2009 - Dec 2011British Design Innovation
This was my Job during University, I was looking after Members, providing IT Support, looking after the Web/Mail/File Servers, improving the information architecture, and developing the internal business processes.
Director / (Full Stack Developer), Shipit Ltd (Freelance)
Jan 2002 - PresentShipit Ltd (Freelance)
From an early age I have been taking on freelance jobs, involving graphic design, web and app development, infrastucture and hosting for individuals and small companies. (E-Commerce sites, Microsites, Corporate sites, Blogs etc.)
N.B - Shipit Ltd incorporated 01/01/18, I was working as self-employed prior to that.