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Anthropic Claude
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Microsoft Copilot
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Hugging Face
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git
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Experience
Software Engineering Director
Blue Prism
- Global Leadership: Leading a remote-first engineering department of ~150 individuals across 18 squads, cultivating a high-performing leadership tier of Managers and Team Leads.
- Next-Gen Architecture: Directing the technical strategy for the WorkHQ SaaS product, shifting the organization to a cloud-native posture that captured critical market opportunities.
- Engineering Excellence: Spearheaded a “DevOps First” transformation, embedding CI/CD at the core of delivery to drive a 15x increase in release frequency and a 500% faster release cycle.
- Strategic Operations: Architected a department-wide FinOps strategy, linking engineering output directly to business value and empowering teams to reduce operational costs.
Development Manager
Blue Prism
- Team Leadership: Led multiple development teams totalling ~50 individuals, delivering the core Blue Prism product and experimental initiatives that evolved into the Next-gen offering.
- Department Scaling: Engineered a 300% expansion of the engineering department, establishing a “remote-first” powerhouse by strategically recruiting from global talent pools.
- Operational Efficiency: Drove a 25% productivity increase by re-architecting cross-functional workflows and systematically removing blockers to empower team autonomy.
- Global Collaboration: Optimized offshore partnerships and communication channels, resulting in a 40% reduction in handoff latency and significantly smoother sprint cycles.
Development Team Lead
Blue Prism
- Hands-on Delivery: Delivered significant core features such as 64-bit support and enhanced browser automation by coaching, pair programming, and enforcing best practices.
- People Management: Direct line management of 8 software engineers, actively mentoring key individuals to progress into future leadership positions.
- Process Engineering: Led the project management migration to Jira, establishing engineering-friendly workflows that enhanced delivery cadence and collaboration.
- Technical Stack: Leveraged C#, VB.NET, and C++ across both classic and modern .NET frameworks to drive product improvements.
Technical Lead
Vaultex
- Team Turnaround: Rebuilt a development team of 7 from the ground up, coaching developers from Junior to Senior levels to restore delivery capacity following critical personnel losses.
- Legacy Stabilization: Adopted and stabilized 4 undocumented legacy projects requiring live support, effectively managing emergency fixes while recovering domain knowledge.
- DevOps Implementation: Designed and built CI/CD pipelines for inherited projects, successfully decreasing time to delivery by up to 7 days.
- Standardization: Instrumental in the “Path to Live” project, developing and deploying engineering standards across multiple teams to ensure consistency.
Technical Architect
The Lead Agency
- Solution Architecture: Architected and delivered major initiatives using Containers and Machine Learning, while migrating legacy stacks to modern cloud-native solutions using Umbraco.
- Platform Performance: Delivered a sophisticated lead generation platform that directly increased conversion rates by over 50%.
- DevOps & Quality: Migrated on-premise TFS to Azure DevOps and instituted comprehensive code review cycles, accelerating bug detection by 35% and reducing deployment errors.
- Tech Culture: Managed a team of 6 and organized external tech events and open days to elevate the company’s technical brand and engineering culture.
Education
BSc Computer Games Technology
Liverpool John Moore's University
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