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• Lead Software Engineer, C.H. Robinson

  Aug, 2022 - Present

  Working in our DevOps group, I lead a team of 5 engineers. Our team work on migrating to the new ADO pipeline infrastructure, supporting stream-aligned teams with their CI/CD pipelines and tooling as well as producing documentation and guides with a focus on improving DevX in the company.

  • Worked with partner teams to migrate to the new ADO DevOps pipeline template.

  • Assisted in the early setup of our internal instance of backstage.io which will become our developer portal.

  • Run and help others run internal workshops and give talks e.g. in our internal tech conference.

  • Work on internal support assisting many different teams with various technical issues related to their CI/CD pipelines and tooling.

• Staff Software Engineer, ZOE

  Jul, 2021 - Aug, 20221 year 1 month

  Worked as the first staff engineer in the company focusing on improving the developer experience and engineering velocity at ZOE.

  • Drove adoption of Accelerate metrics.

  • Mentored team members and negotiated with management to provide space for working on improvements.

  • Standardised our service template and documentation around a technical strategy I helped develop.

  • Helped improve automation around testing for our main mobile application.

  • Developed various internal tools to improve the developer experience.

• Principal Software Engineer, McKesson

  Jul, 2019 - Jul, 20211 year 11 months

  Worked with our internal Platform Team building out development tools, helping automate pipelines and improve our use of the public cloud.

  • Built an internal Developer Portal based on backstage.io.

  • Helped teams adopt CI/CD pipelines by standardizing setup through automation and documentation.

• Principal Software Engineer - Distinguished Engineer, Dell

  Nov, 2017 - Jul, 20191 year 8 months

  My role was primarily the building of development tools for our team as well as building an education platform, travelling and running workshops in various offices to help spread knowledge within our team.

  • Built and codified internal build infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible.

  • Deployed an internally hosted Kubernetes cluster for managing build tools and services. This allowed the team to consistently scale up build resources while growing the team and enabled greater autonomy and stability by providing teams with their dedicated systems.

  • Built an education web app to help disseminate previously undocumented knowledge and greatly improve onboarding of new hires. This was a docs like code approach and saw much better adoption than other options such as confluence.

  • Conducted many workshops on subjects such as Continuous Delivery, Kubernetes and Machine Learning.

• Senior Software Engineer, Spotify

  Aug, 2016 - Nov, 20171 year 3 months

  My role was as a backend engineer. I was on a team responsible for all sections of the Spotify app where the music catalog was displayed such as the artist, album and browse pages. After 8 months I moved to the search team managing the main search backend.

  • Responsible for backend applications serving traffic to 70 million daily active users and 170 monthly active users across 4 global regions.

  • I was on call 1 week per month responsible for 32 backend services and data pipelines.

  • I was involved in migrating all our backend services and data pipelines off on-prem data centers to Google Cloud Platform.

  • Helped design and build new backed systems for the New Free Tier launch providing a much better experience to free tier users.

  • Helped my team get test certified and adopt a good culture of testing and continuous delivery.

  • Attended data university which was a week-long intensive course in how Spotify processes data at scale.

  • Ran machine learning workshops to help drive the adoption of a machine learning first approach to feature development in my group.

  • Ran Kubernetes workshops as we were just starting our Kubernetes journey there.

• Co-Founder, Fooforms

  Aug, 2014 - Aug, 20162 years

  Fooforms began as a learning side project with a friend. We attempted but ultimately did not succeed in turning it into a real business. Although we did have a small user base, we discontinued the project in 2016. It was a web application to help small businesses manage online sales and booking.

  • Worked closely with customers to understand what they needed and built features based on feedback.

  • Exhibited at the Dublin Websummit in 2014.

• Senior Software Engineer, EMC

  Dec, 2012 - Aug, 20163 years 8 months

  I worked in EMC’s Professional Services App Solutions department developing tools that aid in data migration, app modernisation and sales

  • Helped transform our group by using continuous delivery in a large project and driving its adoption.

  • I helped with the process of moving from large monoliths to a microservice architecture which we did see real benefits from.

• Software Engineer, Trust5

  May, 2011 - Dec, 20121 year 6 months

  I gained a great deal of experience in the entire software development lifecycle. I developed reporting tools, billing provider payment systems and mobile applications for Android.

  • Created an On Device Portal application for EA games which lead to a considerable increase in sales and still comes pre-installed on some Android phones.

  • Developed an Android game wrapper for EA to help with game protection and sales which was very successful.

  • Introduced Test Driven Development which was not being practiced before I joined.

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