Senior Software Engineer | Technical Leader | Open Source Maintainer
Software engineer with 20+ years of experience building scalable systems and applications across cloud and on-premise environments.
Proven track record developing full-stack applications with modern frameworks (React, FastAPI, Python), architecting data platforms, and leading engineering teams.
Open source maintainer of pgzip, a multi-threaded gzip implementation in Python.
Based in London, United Kingdom with dual British and Australian citizenship.
May 2021 - February 2026
Designed and deployed full-stack web applications with React and FastAPI. Led development team that built ML-powered planning tools and metrics correlation systems. Technical lead for development team, conducted interviews, and managed project lifecycle from proposal to delivery.
May 2018 - May 2021
Architected internal data analytics platform serving multiple business units. Built distributed data processing infrastructure using Kubernetes and Python-based analytics services. Led platform development from proposal through delivery.
May 2008 - May 2018
Built systems infrastructure for global low-latency financial exchange from pre-launch. Grew and led 13-person engineering team across multiple data centers worldwide. Developed automation tools, monitoring systems, and CI/CD pipelines.
Oct 2005 - May 2008
Maintained high-availability web infrastructure. Led automation project reducing deployment time from days to hours. Implemented Xen virtualization platform for development environments.
Open to discussing new opportunities, collaborations, and interesting projects. Based in London, United Kingdom.