GoDaddy
Principal Software Engineer (V) - Independents
Jun. 2024-Present
Eng - Software Development V. Principal Engineer in the Independents organisation, operating in a horizontal team
- Build & maintain data pipelines processing billions of events monthly
- Architected, developed, and delivered core functionality for GoDaddy Airo™ All Access, featured in Super Bowl 2025 advertising
- Completed multiple R&D projects, producing valuable insights and actionable next steps, including utilising - AI for large-scale analysis (tens of millions) of domain names
- Optimised AWS costs, resulting in $500K+ annual savings
- Mentor three engineers of varying levels across three organisations
- Documented and implemented a rotating support engineer process
GoDaddy
Principal Software Engineer (V) - Partners
Apr. 2023-Jun. 2024
Eng - Software Development V. Principal engineer in the Partners organisation, across multiple business units and teams
- Architected, documented and orchestrated migration from on-premise to AWS Kubernetes across multiple teams
- Actively contributed to custom Rust edge proxy
- Took ownership and improved monitoring, resiliency and performance of tier 0/1 applications
- Implemented documentation framework to greatly improve consistency and readability
- Fostered automation, from CI to development workflows
- Held weekly technical deep dives
Senior Node Developer (IV)
Sep. 2021-Apr. 2023
Senior developer in the Recomm organisation, providing unified eCommerce services to EMEA brands
- Development, enhancements & technical debt resolution of business critical services
- Flow & TypeScript microservices powering EMEA brands (123-Reg, HostEurope & more)
- Working at scale of millions of requests/day
- Resolved long standing architectural issues, reducing outages by 80%
- Contributed to revamp of CI builds, decreasing build time by many factors
- Propounded and implemented application monitoring
- Working with Docker & Kubernetes
Civica
Software Developer
Sep. 2017-Aug. 2021
MERN Stack Occupational Health Product, deployed on IBM Cloud
- Mixture of new feature development, enhancements, bug fixing & technical debt resolution
- Architected and delivered multi-team B2B integration under budget and ahead of schedule
- Maintained and encouraged security best practices
- Introduced linting, code reviews, CI builds, Git Flow + much more tooling
- Setup build & release pipelines in Azure DevOps
- Integrated and maintained 3rd party services
(Previously Warwick IC Systems, Acquired 2019)
Purpose Media
PHP Developer
Jan. 2015-Aug. 2017
Client facing developer for a medium-sized design agency
- WordPress, Laravel & Bespoke PHP Projects
- Lead & mentored a team of ~6 developers
- Worked with stakeholders to ensure the development team hit monthly targets
- Drastically improved & streamlined WordPress projects
- Core contributor to the OSS project Timber
Lumici
Web Application Developer
Jul. 2015-Dec. 2015
Educational Technology Startup (Laravel/MySQL/React), deployed on AWS
- First technical hire
- Oversaw new hires and helped manage the team
- Developed a drag & drop lesson planner with integration into large resources (Youtube, Wikipedia, etc)
Global Brands
Front End Developer
Apr. 2015-Jul. 2015
Built and maintained well known drink brand's websites
- WordPress site development
- Updated internal project management systems
- Worked closely with design & marketing
SWD Digital
Web Developer
Mar. 2007-Apr. 2015
Local design agency, started out as a junior developer and became a core member of the team
- Client facing, mix of support & development
- WordPress, Magento & bespoke PHP projects
- Worked directly with business owners to improve delivery & quality of projects