Cur8 Capital

• Spearheaded the full-cycle design and development of key features for a private equity investment platform facilitating over £60 million in investments.
• Lead backend engineer in a product squad of four senior plus engineers, designing and building customer facing features in collaboration with the product team, since joining the squad investment growth increased by 50% quarter on quarter.
• Technical lead for a 3-person engineering squad, I directed the creation of an investment management system that streamlined workflows and unified legacy data sources, boosting the operation team’s output by 200% and substantially reducing processing errors. This system was built using Retool, Node.js, PostgreSQL on a dedicated microservice running on AWS.
• Reduced average page load times by 60% by optimising caching strategies, database design, and queries, significantly improving user experience.
• Mentored engineers towards leadership roles in feature development, from concept to deployment.
• Delivered dev-ops initiatives which reduced costs of development workflows by 200% and reduced time of completion by up to 400%.
• Streamlined development of workflows by developing an AWS-based, event-driven batch processing pipeline with CDK and Terraform, standardising asynchronous tasks such as document generation.
• Engaged in cross-functional collaboration with operations, product, and legal teams, contributing to over 40% of the architectural design documentation, including system design and API standards.
• Initiated and designed a data analytics framework using Mixpanel and HubSpot, enabling a metrics-driven approach to product strategy and development.

Founding Software Engineer

ZF Group

Squad lead developing software for steering systems
• Worked with the engineering lead to restructure engineering team into four agile squads, boosting throughput by 30%. As the first squad lead, my success led to the approach being adopted team-wide.
• Spearheaded cross-functional collaboration by working closely with leaders from various engineering teams and clients to effectively address high-level requirements, ensuring alignment and successful project outcomes
• Supported in prototyping of IoT based steering systems to support software updates remotely

Product Software Engineer

Developed embedded C software for automobile cybersecurity software
• Architected a steering simulator developing the mechanical, electrical and software design from the ground up, the prototype was used for evaluating products in-house  before testing on track
• Mentored 15 students in software development and product management who then went on to develop three internal products for the company

Student Software Engineer

Founding engineer at Cur8 Capital
I lead the end-to-end design and development of core features for our private equity investment platform, facilitating over £60 million in investments.

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