AutogenAI, July '25 - Present

Dropped into a high-pressure startup with a tight deadline to completely rework a major feature.

• Wrote and tuned several prompts to successfully take a Request For Proposal (RFP) document and generate a response outline complete with citations to the original document and requirements for the writer.
• Tackled context window limitations by devising logic to split long documents into several LLM calls and stitch the responses together. This eliminated a major pain-point of the product that prevented its use on many RFPs.
• Worked closely with designers to perfect a new front-end journey while reducing tech debt through commonising components and writing reusable hooks.

LLMs, prompt engineering, context compaction, BAML, React, Prisma

Green Flag, April '25 - July '25

Brought in at the last minute of a complex multi-year migration to migrate several niche products onto a new, complex platform. Impressed team and managers with speed of project context ramp-up, and quickly attuned to the many edge-cases involved. Spotted several important bugs and created test cases to capture them.

AWS Step Functions, Lambda, CloudFormation, Microservices, Python, Angular

Bausch+Lomb, March '25 - April '25

As the sole developer on a 2-week project, integrated a new API into a live mobile app and its backend on an unfamiliar tech stack. Led calls with stakeholders to proactively identify risks, manage delivery blockers and communicate progress.

Client/project management, ASP.NET Core, C#, React Native, Expo

EIP ERO Portal, July '23 - March '25

Created guidelines for major re-architecture of core microservices and implemented first critical features.

• Trusted by Technical Principal to set up code patterns and conventions to guide 16 devs across the project.
• Redesigned database; more than halved index size and enabled lazy loading.
• Designed React hook solution to support new and old APIs simultaneously in frontend and ease future decommissioning.
• Integration test time cut by 40% by finding inefficiencies.
• Directly responsible for 3 developers.

Lead for two significant features through their entire lifecycle.

• Extended authorisation framework to fine-grained permissions; feature to bulk approve postal applications.
• Technical advisor for design; scoped, estimated, led implementation and demo'ed to client.
• Planned and executed bug-free zero-downtime releases.
• Over 55k postal vote applications approved in 2024 General Election with feature.

Trusted by managers with high-pressure tasks.

• Owned handover of sensitive parts of project from previous supplier as only SC-cleared team member.
• Brought onto two workstreams late-on to get them finished while juggling own priorities.
• Effective task prioritisation through understanding of user needs.
• Demo'ed to over 100 varied stakeholders on numerous occasions.
• Mentored and managed two junior developers.

Kotlin, Typescript, React, Terraform, MySQL, AWS

New Starter Trainer, September '23 - September '24

• Ran weekly training sessions for new grad dev cohort covering technical skills for the job.
• Created new material on React hooks, re-rendering behaviour and optimisation, Terraform with AWS

EIP Citizen-Facing Services, February '23 - July '23

• Successfully refactored critical AWS lambda that processes every digital voting application from Javascript to Typescript; found and fixed several long-standing bugs and increased confidence in the processing.
• Investigated and implemented backwards-compatible cookie compression with versioning.
• Set up integration test suite for API that integrates with back-office ERO Portal application.

Javascript, Java, Scala, Terraform, AWS