Engineer at heart, found working on products, projects, microservices & APIs (GraphQL, REST, SOAP) in Node.js (ExpressJS, Koa, Serverless) or PHP (CodeIgniter, Symphony, Wordpress), familiar with relational databases (MySQL, Postgres), document-driven databases (DynamoDB, MongoDB, RethinkDB, Elasticsearch), templating (Vue.js, Handlebars, Nunjucks, Jekyll, Liquid), unit testing with code-coverage (Mocha, Istanbul NYC, PHPUnit) & devops (dedicated servers, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, Rackspace).
Currently: Principal Software Engineer at BPP Education Group 🏢
Formerly:
- Head of Technology at Tech City Ventures (Fig Finance) 📉
- CTO at Real Links 🚀
- Senior Backend Developer at muzmatch 🎈
- Senior Engineer at Car Throttle / WTF1 🚗
- Software Engineer at MyVoucherCodes / MyDeals 🛍️
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