Experience

Jul 2022 – Mar 2025

Led a full-stack team at Uniper building a system for Power Purchase Agreement valuation model inputs and timeseries visualisation for renewable energies.

• Rewrote the application after the prior version failed to meet business requirements
• Improved performance of key functional areas by an order of magnitude
• Delivered input handling and analysis of model timeseries outputs for PPA valuation

Jul 2022 – Mar 2025

Built the REG9 compliance module for corfinancial’s bitarisk private client portfolio management system, leading UI and remote-team delivery.

• Led enhancement of an existing Angular UI with new components integrated to backend services and APIs
• Delivered a robust, fully integrated REG9 compliance solution that elevated system functionality and UX
• Led a fully remote team through initiative and coordination under virtual-collaboration constraints

• corfinancial bitarisk product information

Jul 2022 – Mar 2025

Redeveloped TM3, a fixed-income product giving clients access to US municipal bond information, for LSEG Workspace with multi-source integration and live trade streaming.

• Integrated multiple disparate data sources and streamed live trade data via WebSockets
• Partnered closely with the business to land requirements inside LSEG’s technical estate
• Shipped multiple production releases enabling migration from the legacy product onto new TM3

• Digiterre case study on LSEG TM3 project

Jan 2022 – Jul 2022

Provided technical and architectural guidance to upgrade a global partner remuneration system covering multiple tax regions and country-specific tax rules.

• Guided technology upgrade of the existing partner remuneration platform
• Improved application performance while adopting industry best practices for code quality and design

Jul 2021 – Dec 2021

Built intraday exposure reporting for traders with multi-dimensional filtering, pivoting, and drill-down from book and strategy to trade-level data.

• Handled large multi-dimensional working datasets with regularly changing data
• Broadcast daily trades to the UI in real time with SignalR, including pause-and-snapshot investigation

2017 – 2021

Replicated operational data from disparate legacy stores into a modernised central data lake and exposed reporting APIs for business applications.

• Sourced and replicated operational data into Azure SQL Server as a central data lake
• Built C# / ASP.NET Web API endpoints for reporting and data investigation
• Migrated the data lake toward Azure services including Data Factory and Synapse

2017 – 2021

Delivered highly distributed master-data applications spanning SAP, iSeries/AS400, and custom SQL Server stores with coordinated messaging and workflow.

• Coordinated development teams and sprint work across system boundaries
• Built Angular UIs integrating with .NET and SAP APIs
• Used IBM Process Server and Integration Bus for messaging and workflow across backends

2017 – 2021

Remote consulting across vehicle micro-dotting OEM systems, live sports telemetry, customer coupon management, bookkeeping marketplaces, and ongoing SMEasy product work.

• Built backend APIs for Veridot’s OEM micro-dotting system and migrated the solution to fully managed Azure hosting
• Processed live Chelsea FC player GPS, acceleration and speed data via Azure Event Hubs, Functions and SQL Server
• Built CashRewards’ customer coupon management site in Angular (Australia)
• Completed PROFiltr’s online marketplace for small bookkeeping companies (AngularJS, Node.js, MongoDB)
• Provided ongoing support and further development of SMEasy after the CTO tenure

2015 – 2017

CTO of an online accounting package for SMEs, covering product leadership, architecture, delivery, and board-level technical strategy.

• Provided technical insight to the board for strategic decision-making
• Led product technical direction and further development of offerings
• Managed development resources and outside contractors
• Drove system architecture, process re-engineering, and new technology investment

2011 – 2015

With four other Digiterre consultants, introduced agile practices, CI/CD, and automated testing while coaching M&G developers on industry patterns and design principles.

• Embedded continuous integration and automated unit, integration and acceptance tests
• Automated application and database deployment across environments
• Coached and mentored M&G developers on patterns, practices and design principles

2011 – 2015

On a small agile team of four, built a Master Data Management system and an Initial Margins tool reconciling EDF energy positions with clearing-house margins.

• Wrapped a third-party calculation engine for daily automated initial-margin reporting
• Loaded input data from EDF systems daily and produced reconciliation reports for the business

2011 – 2015

Led a multi-site team (London, Düsseldorf, India) delivering a Transfer Pricing management tool for EON Energy Trading through to completion and handover.

• Coordinated delivery across London, Düsseldorf and India with strong communication discipline
• Processed large model-output datasets through calculations and manipulation for business reports and analysis
• Handed the completed system to an outsourced support provider chosen by EON

2010 – 2011

Worked in a geographically distributed middle-office team integrating disparate applications at a large fund-of-funds, spanning fund accounting, fee calculation, FX and trade planning.

• Connected data sources and applications via request/response and pub/sub messaging (Oracle WebLogic, MSMQ, in-house bus)
• Ran month-long SCRUM sprints across distributed offices with strong communication focus
• Advanced Agile adoption, test coverage and TDD across the codebase

2009 – 2010

On a team of eight, built an online policy management system for insurance sold through Brit’s broker network, using loosely coupled messaging for high availability.

• Implemented publish/subscribe decoupling with NServiceBus across logically separate components
• Worked with TeamCity CI, unit/integration tests and automated deployment for fast feedback
• Operated a self-managing Kanban-style team with shared system ownership

2008 – 2009

Built a contact and event management system for business contacts, targeted communications, and full life-cycle tracking of business events.

• Delivered contact groupings and targeted event communications with life-cycle tracking
• Used ASP.NET MVC and jQuery for client-side asynchronous UI updates

2008 – 2009

On a large team, built an internal budgeting application for matter cost monitoring across finance and firm work-management systems.

• Budgeted estimated work costs for partners, fee-earners and other resources at different exchange rates
• Compared budgets against actual matter outcomes with monitoring reports