I am a software engineer with over 8 years of experience in frontend and backend web development, data engineering and machine learning. I am passionate about agile development, continuous integration and code reviews. I am interested in open source, open web standards, and digital rights protection.
In my spare time I organise events for the geek community, including BarCamps, HackDays and Geek Trips. I like to present on Git, Ruby, testing frameworks, and photography. My most successful hacks include a browser extension for donating to charities, and a mobile version of the BBC/British Museum’s “A History of the world in 100 objects” programme.
Looking after Developers in the UK and Northern Europe.
EmberAds received funding in 2011 after having been developed internally at PizzaPowered for almost 6 months. As one of the co-founders I was involved in most aspects of the strategy for the company, and as developer I was mainly focused on the machine learning algorithms.
Co-founder of an event management company that runs free-to-attend events in London. Created in 2011 after some of us ran three BarCamps and a two HackCamps in London. BarCamps are large unconferences that yearly attract over 200 enthusiastic technologists that share information and collaborate on new projects.
At GeeksOfLondon I’ve mainly been responsible for sponsorship outreach and management.
Providing custom web applications for clients including the BBC and PayPal.
After winning CharityHack 2010 by producing a proof of concept of CharityBox - a social browser extension for donating to charity - we decided to start a company as a team and focus on a few projects that we had all been wanting to work on for a while.
PizzaPowered spun off EmberAds at the end of 2011.
I joined MinuteBox as project manager and later on took a permanent role as CTO and headed the engineering of the new code base.
Junior web developer involved in developing Facebook applications for marketing campaigns for various large and small brands including Sony and PhotoBox.
Focusing on supporting educators in the creation and management of digital course ware. Providing a solution of on-site lecture recording and integrated viewing software.
Winner at PayPal’s CharityHack London 2010 and PayPal’s Hackathon San Francisco 2010 with the team that founded PizzaPowered Ltd. Winner at History Hackday London 2011.
Category winner at MusicHackDay London 2009, CharityHack 2009, 2011 and 2012 and OverTheAir 2010.
git, continuous integration, code reviews, hack days, barcamp, open source, web standards, formula 1, triathlons