Experience

Career timeline

Roles ordered by recency, with the work scope and outcomes that shaped how I build product software.

1. Nov 2025 - Present · 8m · Current

   Founder and Builder · Masterful CV (opens in new tab) live product for CV and application workflows

   Independent project · Lancashire, UK · Independent product build and LLM document workflows

   Building Masterful CV as a live product for CV and application workflows, with structured document import, user-reviewed AI assistance, signed-in workflows, and account, billing, admin, and legal surfaces.

   • Designing, building, and releasing every surface of Masterful CV as a solo product.
   • Designing AI-assisted document workflows around structured outputs, validation, warnings, PII handling, usage controls, and review before generated material changes the working document.
   • Owning product direction and delivery end to end, from discovery, positioning, onboarding, and copy through implementation, domain modelling, privacy/security decisions, cost control, release planning, documentation, demos, and usability testing.
   • Building the product UI across information architecture, responsive layouts, document editors with live preview, and admin screens, with browser checks, accessibility checks, visual regression, and validation used as review evidence.

   • TypeScript
   • React
   • React Router
   • TanStack Query
   • Zod
   • Node.js
   • Cloudflare Workers
   • Hono
   • PostgreSQL
   • Drizzle
   • Docker
   • GitHub Actions
   • Playwright
   • Vitest
   • axe-core
   • PWA / service workers
   • Internationalisation
   • i18next
   • OpenRouter
   • Stripe
   • WorkOS
   • Independent product drive
   • LLM CLIs
   • Typed schemas
   • Artifact contracts
   • Proof plans
   • AI-agent-assisted engineering
   • Product discovery
   • UX design
   • Data modelling
   • Authentication
   • Analytics
   • Security/privacy
   • Prompt design
   • Structured outputs
   • Model selection
   • Token/cost tracking
   • Evals
   • Safety checks
   • Evidence grounding
   • PII redaction
   • Regression checks
   • Rate limiting
   • PDF / DOCX parsing
   • CV extraction
   • Diff analysis
   • Verification artifacts
   • Design systems
   • Responsive UI
   • Visual regression
   • Incident response
   • Vulnerability checks
   • Test strategy
   • Cost control
   • Release planning
   • Usability testing

2. Nov 2025 - Present · 8m · Current

   Founder and Builder · Consortio pre-launch CLI prototype

   Independent project · Lancashire, UK · AI-agent orchestration and developer tooling

   Building Consortio as a pre-launch CLI prototype for comparing coding-model approaches to repository tasks, preserving candidate evidence, surfacing disagreement, and keeping export/apply decisions under operator control.

   • Building Consortio as an artifact-backed CLI prototype that brings multiple coding-model approaches to the same repository task, preserves evidence, and keeps export/apply decisions under operator control.
   • Solving orchestration problems: reconciling conflicting model perspectives, managing repository context within context limits, and defining recovery paths and no-winner outcomes.
   • Using AI-agent-assisted engineering as a controlled delivery practice: decomposing work, preparing context, shaping task intent, reviewing candidate diffs, verifying behavior, and keeping integration decisions explicit.
   • Designing the orchestration model so task intent, candidate artifacts, verification evidence, and export/apply decisions remain inspectable instead of implicit.
   • Owning product direction and delivery across discovery, positioning, landing-site design and copy, domain modelling, privacy/security decisions, cost control, release planning, documentation, product demos, and usability testing.
   • Designing and operating the delivery system across layered regression suites, typed contracts, environment handling, logging, dependency maintenance, privacy review, and release-focused test strategy.

   • TypeScript
   • Node.js
   • Docker
   • Git worktrees
   • Headless drivers
   • PTY fallback
   • Typed schemas
   • LLM CLIs
   • Docker sandboxing
   • Agent orchestration
   • AI-agent-assisted engineering
   • Task decomposition
   • Artifact contracts
   • Intent contracts
   • Run graphs
   • Verification ledgers
   • Proof plans
   • Disagreement handling
   • GitHub Actions
   • Playwright
   • Vitest
   • OpenAI APIs
   • Anthropic APIs
   • OpenRouter
   • Context preparation
   • Intent writing
   • Delegated implementation
   • Code review
   • Diff analysis
   • Product discovery
   • UX design
   • Data modelling
   • APIs
   • Security/privacy
   • Prompt design
   • Structured outputs
   • Model selection
   • Token/cost tracking
   • Evals
   • Safety checks
   • Regression checks
   • Rate limiting
   • Verification artifacts
   • Vulnerability checks
   • Test strategy
   • Cost control
   • Release planning
   • Positioning
   • Documentation
   • Usability testing
   • Independent product drive

3. Feb 2023 - Oct 2025 · 2y 9m

   Technical Team Lead, Messaging Infrastructure · Emarsys, an SAP company (opens in new tab)

   Full-time · Vienna, Austria · Messaging infrastructure

   Led a messaging-infrastructure engineering squad as technical lead, product-engineering owner, hiring manager, and line manager, partnering across product, architecture, support, customer-facing teams, vendors, and receiving engineering teams.

   • Owned engineering delivery for business-critical messaging product areas, keeping public detail to domain, reliability, integration, and leadership responsibilities rather than employer implementation specifics.
   • Led technical review across service design, data modelling, queue-based processing, routing behaviour, deployment design, alerting, operational readiness, capacity planning, and release coordination.
   • Served as escalation point for support and customer-facing teams investigating delivery, integration, and account-impacting issues.
   • Contributed technical leadership to cloud-native messaging-platform work, including service design, ingestion paths, operational readiness, and peak-period planning.
   • Prioritised reliability work using production signals, incident learning, documentation, and alert tuning where messaging failures could affect customer operations.
   • Managed engineers and contributed to hiring, onboarding, one-to-ones, performance reviews, planning, technical discussions, retrospectives, and cross-team handover.
   • Prepared and delivered knowledge-transfer material so another engineering team could safely take ownership of the product area.

   • Java
   • Spring Boot
   • GCP
   • Pub/Sub
   • GKE
   • Terraform
   • Kubernetes
   • ArgoCD
   • PostgreSQL
   • MySQL
   • BigQuery
   • Redis
   • RabbitMQ
   • ELK
   • ElastAlert
   • PagerDuty
   • Jenkins
   • GitHub Actions
   • Black Duck
   • SMPP
   • SMS compliance

4. Nov 2020 - Feb 2023 · 2y 4m

   Senior Software Engineer · Emarsys, an SAP company (opens in new tab)

   Full-time · Vienna, Austria · Partner APIs and SMS products

   Worked as a full-stack contributor, reviewer, and escalation point across partner integrations, SMS campaign tooling, public developer documentation, and operational support for global B2B messaging customers.

   • Built and reviewed integration-facing services, authentication flows, asynchronous processing, validation, error handling, logging, metrics, and supportable API behaviour.
   • Helped grow a production partner-integration surface for external providers, customer-managed credentials, status flows, and developer-facing use cases.
   • Built customer-facing messaging-product features across campaign workflows, message composition, validation, delivery state, and compliance-sensitive behaviour.
   • Worked across relational data changes, migrations, operational records, audit trails, reporting data, caching, query performance, data fixes, and backfills.
   • Supported production investigations using dashboards, log searches, alerts, runbooks, and debugging across support teams, internal operators, customers, and provider networks.
   • Authored public developer documentation explaining integration flows and asynchronous provider behaviour.
   • Contributed automated tests, manual QA, deployments, incident triage, support runbooks, and performance fixes across backend and frontend work.

   • Node.js
   • TypeScript
   • Express
   • OAuth 2.0
   • REST APIs
   • Webhooks
   • Angular
   • Vue.js
   • SMPP
   • Partner APIs
   • Vendor APIs
   • SQL
   • Caching
   • Unit tests
   • Integration tests
   • Frontend tests
   • Monitoring
   • CI/CD
   • On-call
   • Production debugging
   • SMS compliance

5. Jun 2020 - Nov 2020 · 6m

   Senior Full-Stack Developer · Freelance

   Independent · Manchester, UK · Health clinic web application

   Delivered an informational web application for a children's health clinic, owning the work from requirements through release, handover, and support.

   • Built a read-only web application to present clinic services and clinician information clearly for prospective patients and families.
   • Implemented the backend service and hosting setup for a small production site.
   • Handled deployment and operations tasks including backups, process management, secure serving, environment configuration, domain setup, and monitoring.
   • Worked directly with stakeholders on requirements gathering, demos, estimates, prioritisation, release planning, user feedback, bug triage, documentation, handover, and support.

   • React
   • Node.js
   • Express
   • NGINX
   • VPS hosting
   • SSL/TLS
   • DNS
   • Monitoring
   • Stakeholder demos
   • Support

6. Feb 2020 - Jun 2020 · 5m

   Software Developer, Digital Health · The University of Manchester (opens in new tab)

   Full-time · Manchester, UK · Clinical and research software

   Built digital health software spanning clinical research workflows, mobile/device integration, backend services, and governed medical data handling.

   • Built clinical and research workflow features across data capture, review, consent, observations, dashboards, exports, and administrative support.
   • Contributed mobile and device-integration work where offline behaviour, permissions, background sync, validation, and error handling mattered.
   • Developed backend APIs, persistence changes, migrations, queries, and validation for governed digital-health product features.
   • Contributed tests, manual QA, release support, bug fixing, documentation, code review, and stakeholder demos.
   • Worked under medical data governance, GDPR, and access-control constraints while integrating mobile readings with backend services.

   • Java
   • Spring Boot
   • Hibernate
   • Liquibase
   • SQL
   • Ionic
   • Android
   • Bluetooth
   • SDK integration
   • Unit tests
   • Integration tests
   • CI/CD
   • GDPR
   • Access control
   • Medical data governance

7. Apr 2019 - Oct 2019 · 7m

   AI Software Engineer, Privacy & Tooling · DeepCognito

   Full-time · Manchester, UK · Medical AI and annotation tooling

   Built privacy-preserving data tooling, NLP workflow support, and human-in-the-loop annotation systems for sensitive medical text machine-learning workflows.

   • Built privacy-preserving text-processing workflows for sensitive medical data, including detection, redaction, replacement, and review support.
   • Worked on data movement, auditability, training-data preparation, annotation queues, label review, model feedback loops, dataset validation, and NLP preprocessing.
   • Delivered annotation tooling backed by APIs, services, browser UI, persistence, authentication, roles/permissions, file upload, background jobs, logging, and tests.
   • Collaborated with annotators and data scientists on governed workflows, compliance reviews, stakeholder demos, and documentation.

   • Java
   • Spring Boot
   • Node.js
   • Express
   • Angular
   • MongoDB
   • NLP
   • PII / PHI detection
   • Pseudonymisation
   • Annotation tooling
   • Authentication
   • Background jobs
   • GDPR

8. Sep 2016 - Apr 2019 · 2y 8m

   Software Developer · The University of Manchester Library (opens in new tab)

   Full-time · Manchester, UK · Library platforms and internal tools

   Built catalogue, search, identity, access, and workflow tools for a large university library platform used by students, researchers, library staff, and service desk teams.

   • Built and maintained catalogue and search experiences across search UI, filters, availability display, metadata mapping, APIs, performance, and accessibility.
   • Worked on identity and access workflows for student and staff login, SSO, permissions, session handling, card-related verification, and account workflows.
   • Modernised internal workflow pages by adding standalone browser applications to existing request, approval, reporting, and administrative flows.
   • Developed mobile tooling for staff verification workflows, including secure-device and credential-handling concerns.
   • Built internal admin forms, feedback tools, reporting dashboards, approval flows, notifications, and data exports to digitise manual library workflows.
   • Supported production systems through tests, deployments, bug triage, stakeholder demos, documentation, training, accessibility requirements, and service desk support.

   • Node.js
   • Express
   • Passport.js
   • Shibboleth / SAML
   • LDAP
   • NGINX
   • MongoDB
   • AngularJS
   • Android
   • MIFARE DESFire
   • Secure key handling
   • Search UI
   • Accessibility
   • Production support
   • Documentation

9. Sep 2013 - Aug 2016 · 3y

   Graduate Research & Teaching Assistant · The University of Manchester (opens in new tab)

   Academic · Manchester, UK · Computer science research and teaching

   Taught undergraduate computer science while researching high-performance database query acceleration through FPGA partial reconfiguration.

   • Supported teaching through seminars, labs, marking, exam preparation, office hours, student feedback, mentoring, project supervision, and curriculum material.
   • Taught and supported topics including Distributed Systems, Java, object-oriented programming, Software Engineering, databases, algorithms, and web development.
   • Mentored first-year student teams through full-lifecycle web application projects covering requirements, design, coding, testing, demos, teamwork, version control, documentation, presentations, debugging, and architecture.
   • Researched database query acceleration using FPGA partial reconfiguration, hardware/software co-design, benchmarking, performance analysis, literature review, experiment design, and prototype implementation.

   • Distributed Systems
   • Java
   • OOP
   • Software Engineering
   • Databases
   • Algorithms
   • Web development
   • Git
   • C / C++
   • SQL
   • VHDL / Verilog
   • Xilinx tools
   • Linux
   • Scripting
   • FPGA research
   • Benchmarking
   • Performance analysis
   • Hardware/software co-design