Pontypool, South Wales
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Technical Lead with 10 years’ experience designing and delivering cloud-based platforms across healthcare, defence, and SaaS organisations. Experienced in system architecture, platform modernisation, DevOps adoption, and introducing AI-assisted engineering practices. Proven record of improving delivery speed, mentoring engineers, and establishing reliable production systems.
Key Achievements
- Delivered a full re-platforming (CustomerHub) in one quarter, reducing deployment cycles by 75%
- Built the first CI/CD pipelines at Clinithink and standardised engineering workflows across teams
- Introduced AI-assisted engineering practices and tooling across an engineering organisation
- Led and mentored engineers, improving team collaboration and delivery reliability
- Designed distributed data processing in regulated environments
Core Skills
Languages: Python, C#, TypeScript, JavaScript
Frameworks: .NET, React, Django, FastAPI, Node.js
Cloud & DevOps: Azure, AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure DevOps
Data & Messaging: MSSQL, Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch
Practices: System architecture, CI/CD, DevOps enablement, platform engineering, mentoring, agile delivery, incident management
Professional Experience
Duel — Senior Full-Stack Engineer
| *Oct 2025 – Feb 2026 |
Bristol (Hybrid)* |
- Designed and delivered an AI-first advocate challenge-creation and content-analysis prototype using LangGraph
- Productionised the system in an unfamiliar stack and released it to multiple customer brands
- Introduced AI-assisted engineering workflows including reusable rules, skills, and automation patterns
- Facilitated team retrospectives focused on psychological safety and team effectiveness
- Supported live production operations, including rapid localisation updates for brand launches
- Shared AI engineering practices and learnings across the wider engineering organisation
Clinithink — Technical Lead
| *Jun 2023 – Aug 2025 |
Bridgend (Hybrid)* |
- Led a small team to architect and deliver CustomerHub, re-platforming a legacy .NET/Azure system to HubSpot CMS, React, and Azure Functions within one quarter
- Reduced deployment cycles by 75% and significantly improved release reliability
- Built BuildTools, a PowerShell cmdlet suite and reusable Azure DevOps pipeline templates used across the organisation
- Standardised CI/CD pipelines, versioning, change logging, and artifact promotion
- Introduced tooling to track AI-assisted coding metrics and engineering productivity
- Mentored engineers and promoted psychological safety and collaborative working practices
- Delivered technical demonstrations and knowledge-sharing sessions across multiple teams
- Supported cross-team initiatives within the CLiX Unlock programme, adapting into a senior engineering role to assist delivery teams
Clinithink — Software Engineer
| *Jun 2021 – Jun 2023 |
Bridgend (Hybrid)* |
- Worked on CLiX Revenue, a Python/Django/React platform providing NLP-powered analytics
- Eventually led the team and established it as the engineering benchmark within the organisation
- Built the company’s first CI/CD pipelines using Terraform and Azure DevOps
- Reduced QA cycle times from days to hours
- Collaborated with product owners and scrum masters to improve agile delivery practices
Raytheon — Senior Software Engineer
| *Nov 2020 – Apr 2021 |
Cheltenham* |
- Developed an internal employee portal using React, Node.js, MySQL, and Docker deployed via Jenkins, Kubernetes, and Helm
- Improved automated testing using Jest, Cypress, and Cucumber
- Mentored junior engineers and encouraged DevOps practices within the team
BAE Systems Applied Intelligence — Software Engineer
| *Aug 2016 – Nov 2020 |
London & Cheltenham* |
- Designed and built a distributed ETL framework in Python integrating Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, and NiFi
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Ansible and introduced automated testing with Pytest
- Supported critical production systems and resolved high-severity incidents under strict SLAs
Projects
ProjectVelour — FastAPI, ComfyUI, Stable Diffusion, React
AI-driven platform for personal expression through tattoos and nail art.
Spelltail — Unity, C#, LLMs
Experimental game combining word mechanics and AI-driven narrative generation.
ProjectCipher — ML.NET, TypeScript, React
Research project exploring full-stack AI code generation.
BuildTools — PowerShell, Azure DevOps, Python
Reusable command and pipeline toolkit standardising development workflows.
Certifications
Mental Health First Aider
Education
University of South Wales — BSc (Hons) Computer Games Development, 2:1 (2012–2016)
Pontypool College — HND Graphic Design (2005–2008)