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• Staff Engineer, Business Platform Development, Money Forward Co. Inc.

  Dec, 2024 - Present

  • Responsible for building the technical architecture practice of BPD itself.

• Principal Engineer, Customer Products, Financial Times Ltd.

  Jan, 2022 - Nov, 20242 years 10 months

  • Technically accountable for Experience product area comprising 3 teams, responsible for 20 engineers including 4 managers.

  • Led teams to meet and/or exceed SLO targets for the busiest website/app features including Articles, Streams/Lists, Search and Homepage.

  • Shipped FT’s first game on web & mobile in partnership with an external development team (Crossword).

  • Reduced time-to-market for new article features and capabilities with a new cross-functional product team (Dynamic Storytelling).

  • Mitigated & reduced severity of DDoS with CDN rate-limiting, leading other teams to use the same approach (Edge Rate-Limiting).

  • Enabled teams to share code and features across organisational boundaries with a new deployment methodology (Extensible Frontends).

  • Increased ad revenue & reader conversion, and improved editorial efficiency, by bringing Visual & Data articles to core tech stack (“IG”).

• Acting Technical Director, Customer Products, Financial Times Ltd.

  Jun, 2022 - Jan, 20237 months

  • Technically accountable for FT.com & Apps group, comprising 11 product teams and 60 engineers.

  • Near 100% availability during a heavy news agenda, whilst technically accountable for operations of FT.com and Apps.

  • Restarted talent development pipeline by hiring Apprentice, Junior and Mid engineers after reviewing seniority and location balance.

  • Improved management quality by overseeing transition from matrix management structure to team-based line-management.

  • Closed a significant historic overspend through tactical measures, resulting in no lasting changes to staffing or vendor relationships.

• Principal Engineer (Engineering Manager), New Products & Enterprise, Financial Times Ltd.

  Jan, 2021 - Jan, 20221 year

  • Built a brand new engineering area of 10 for new product development and innovation, bringing 3 new products to market within 1 year.

  • Fostered a culture of shipping small, data-driven experiments via enabling tooling (feature-flagging, analytics).

  • Created FT’s first AI product team by embedding machine-learning engineers, resulting in a product launch and close collaboration between engineering and data-science organisations.

  • Created a hybrid location team by recruiting and building supporting processes for Bulgaria and the UK, resulting in a bigger talent pool.

• Principal Engineer, FT Group Products, Financial Times Ltd.

  Apr, 2019 - Jan, 20211 year 9 months

  • Recruited a new product & engineering team of 30 in Sofia, including owning and designing full engineering employee lifecycle.

  • Relaunched several titles including fDi Intelligence and Investors Chronicle by leading execution of FT Specialist’s 3-year technology strategy.

  • Maintained stakeholder satisfaction (NPS) while consolidating technical portfolio from many suppliers to the new team, including facilitating knowledge transfers following a data-driven approach.

  • Introduced native security, multivariate testing & first-party data collection (+CDXP) capabilities into the new technical estate, enabling marketing activities and reducing compliance risk.

• Principal Developer, Bluetel Solutions Ltd.

  Oct, 2016 - Mar, 20192 years 5 months

  • Nikkei Asian Review — Technical Lead (May 2017 – Mar 2019): led an engineering team through a complex project split across many stakeholders and time-zones.

  • Nikkei Asian Review — Relaunched a high-performing, high-traffic website with no downtime and a new 24x7 support process.

  • Nikkei Asian Review — Responsible for architecture of new systems and integrations, including an ETL pipeline for content.

  • Nikkei Asian Review — Built, user-tested, trained and launched a new CMS to empower a globally distributed newsroom.

  • Kapture8 Ltd. — Technical Architect (Sep 2016 – Mar 2017): worked with CTO/CEO to execute EdTech vision, capturing requirements and building a new product with an agile team.

  • Kapture8 Ltd. — Teams built cross-platform apps within tight time and compliance constraints for user testing and trade show demos.

• Software Developer, Bluetel Solutions Ltd.

  Oct, 2013 - Oct, 20163 years

  • FT Live — Technical Lead (Mar 2015 – Sep 2016): improved at-event experience NPS as a small product squad rapidly prototyping digital signage and a new check-in experience.

  • FT Confidential Research — Technical Lead (Mar 2015 – Mar 2016): delivered granular paywall technology and a subscriber data management platform.

  • Packt Publishing Ltd. — Technical Architecture Consultant (Dec 2015 – Mar 2016): led teams through defining and pitching the business case for moving to microservices.

  • Source Intelligence LLC — Senior Engineer (2015 – 2016): built a Java microservices ecosystem for subscription management, access control and account management.

  • Asian Business Publications Ltd. — Technical Lead (2014 – 2016): delivered and maintained editorial platforms and websites for Asian Voice and Gujarat Samachar weekly news publications.

  • Premier Christian Media Trust — Engineer (2013 – 2015).

• Financial Systems Intern, Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council

  Jul, 2011 - Jul, 20111 day

• Freelance Developer & SysAdmin, Freelance

  Jan, 2010 - Dec, 20133 years 11 months

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