I'm an senior software engineer with experiance as a team lead/mentor, and as a staff engineer. I reguarly use multiple languages including PHP, perl, JavaScript, C#, and python, all with different frameworks and environments.
Most of these have been in conjunction with both MySQL and Oracle databases, as well as communicating with web services, email systems, and proprietary hardware interfaces.
Platforms and frameworks used include LAMP, the Unity game engine, React, and Arduino devices while tooling includes git, Jira, Slack, VSCode, Sentry, github, FullStory, and PagerDuty amongst others.
Amongst my hobbies is amateur cartography and as such have contributed lots of data to the OpenStreetMap project. I'm also an active contributor in various online programmer communities including StackOverflow, Usenet, and smaller forums.
I have been a member of Scouting from an early age and currently run an Explorer Scout unit and volunteer as part of a small team providing diversity and inclusion training around the country.
My other hobbies include walking, climbing, photography of industrial architecture and ageing buildings, and the theatre where I work with a local theatre company as a lighting and stage technician.
Platform engineer for a multi million dollar e-commerce platform, supporting the modernisation and keeping the lights on for all of our sites.
Improving the core platform stability and functionality while working with the rapid response team to triage and resolve live issue escalations.
Lead software engineer for checkout for the e-commerce and marketing websites across EMEA and the Estée Lauder brands.
Directly supporting 12 engineers, and working with 6 production staff to plan and implement features and upgrades.
Online engineer for EMEA, involved in site rollouts, new payment integrations and capability spikes.
Lead developer for the iCatcher CCTV range of products where I oversaw development, as well as planning new features and migration of existing features to new environments.
Technical contact with suppliers for integration, feeding back technical details and results of testing.
I also implemented and managed the bug and feature tracking system, source versioning and build management, and was responsible for dealing with customer support issues.
Most of the personal projects I work on have been made available under an open source licence and I work with several projects on both Bitbucket and GitHub.