Experience

Career timeline

One combined independent period, detailed recent roles, and a compressed record of earlier work. Technical tags are representative rather than exhaustive.

1. Nov 2025 - Present · 9m · Current

   Founder and Product Builder · Independent products Masterful CV (live) · Consortio (pre-user-launch CLI prototype)

   Independent · Lancashire, UK · Document workflows and developer tooling

   Designing and building two products end to end: Masterful CV, a live CV and application-workflow product, and Consortio, a private CLI prototype for inspectable coding-model runs.

   • Released Masterful CV around one document loop: import or start blank, edit structured profile data, preview the real document, and export for print or PDF.
   • Building Consortio around durable task intent, isolated candidate work, verification evidence, explicit disagreement, and human-controlled export or apply decisions.
   • Owning product discovery, architecture, implementation, privacy and security decisions, testing, release work, documentation, and support surfaces across both products.

   • TypeScript
   • React
   • Node.js
   • Cloudflare Workers
   • PostgreSQL
   • Docker
   • Git worktrees
   • Playwright
   • Vitest
   • LLM APIs

2. 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 customer-facing SMS and messaging product areas, keeping public detail to domain, reliability, integration, and leadership responsibilities.
   • Led technical review and delivery planning across service design, data flows, alerting, capacity, release review, and operational readiness.
   • Managed engineers and contributed to hiring, onboarding, planning, technical discussions, retrospectives, and handover.

   • Java
   • Spring Boot
   • GCP
   • Pub/Sub
   • GKE
   • Kubernetes
   • ArgoCD
   • Terraform
   • SMPP
   • RabbitMQ

3. 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, and metrics.
   • Built customer-facing messaging-product features across campaign workflows, message composition, validation, delivery state, and compliance-sensitive behaviour.
   • Supported production investigations with dashboards, logs, alerts, runbooks, and debugging across internal teams, customers, and provider networks.

   • Node.js
   • TypeScript
   • Express
   • OAuth 2.0
   • REST APIs
   • Webhooks
   • Angular
   • Vue.js
   • SQL
   • SMPP

4. 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.

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

5. 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.

   • Java
   • Spring Boot
   • Hibernate
   • Liquibase
   • SQL
   • Ionic
   • Android
   • Bluetooth
   • SDK integration
   • GDPR

6. 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.

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

7. 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.

   • Node.js
   • Express
   • Search UI
   • Passport.js
   • Shibboleth / SAML
   • LDAP
   • NGINX
   • MongoDB
   • AngularJS
   • Android

8. 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.

   • Distributed Systems
   • Java
   • OOP
   • Software Engineering
   • Databases
   • Algorithms
   • Web development
   • C / C++
   • SQL
   • VHDL / Verilog