Antler

Founder

Clearword

Full Stack Engineer

Noa Technologies Inc.

► I work with the CTO, front-end team, firmware team and backend-team
► I’m a point of contact for customers
► I focus on backend Python/Django/Django Rest Framework/AWS CodeStar/Travis.
► I work on feature updates and bug fixes for the ReactJs Web Apps
► I work on feature updates and bug fixes for the React-Native Mobile Apps (mostly modifying and improving existing features and displaying new data from the Django Rest API).

Python Developer

Gohono.com

TableFiller was started by a small engineering team from New Zealand.
► I built the website and web app. Django3, Python3.6, PyTest, BootStrap 4
► I built the data analytics tools; Segment, JavaScript, MixPanel, Metabase.
► I built the devops pipeline, Vagrant, Bash, CodeStar, AWS, Serverless, ELB, S3.
► I built the environments; AWS, Cloudformation, Django Celery/Channels

Co-founder & CTO

Blerter

25 person startup focusing on on-site communications and operations for events. I joined Blerter as a Product Owner and quickly after joined the leadership team. 
► Led Product Development Team, UX x1, Engineer x9, QA x3 - 13 direct reports 
► Took over and led the delivery of a 12 month project and delivered. 
► Led a company wide data and metrics project tracking product metrics.

Head of Product

Web Summit

I focused on starting Agile, Lean, Scrum, Customer Development and Product Thinking practices in Web Summit.
► Evangelized Scrum, Agile & Lean across 8 teams with 80% adoption.
► Started Customer Development practices interviewing 200+ attendees.
► Trained 3 engineering teams in Scrum practices.
► Worked with Product Team to establish 12 baseline metrics for Mobile CX and 2 core KPIs.
► Defined 14 Customer Segments for Customer Development.
► Initiated Qualitative Feedback practices for Product.
► Evangelized making work visible to increase team autonomy

Senior Product Owner

Plynk

I lead the engineering, customer service, and product teams. I worked on the vision and breaking the strategy down for development.
► Worked with engineering to drive the 2 localization projects
► Worked with Marketing/Growth to grow our user base
► Worked with management to define the roadmap

Product Owner

Worked on the Plynk Payments Platform in Java and AWS. Using Dynamodb, Lambda, Serverless, Cloudwatch, CodeStar, EC2, Kinesis, Elastic Beanstalk, et. al. 
► Led the backend engineering team
► Worked with Mobile and Web Teams
► Built out micorservices using Lambda
► Brought in CodeStar and Serverless/Cloudformation for IaC
► Documented System processes and architecture for onboarding

Senior Software Engineer & Technical Lead

Newslinn

Citizen-to-Journalist photo sharing app. Project was funded by Google DNI. Built using a range of technologies. Uses Python, ReactJs, React-Native, Django, Celery, Boto, Redis, EC2, S3, Nodejs, socket.io, Mongodb, vagrant, PyKE, docker, terraform, sci-kit learn. It focused on using artificial intelligence (PyKE) and machine learning (Sci-kit learn) applied to real-time photo verification. The official Google project came to an end in November 2016 - but I’ve taken on on-going freelance work to further build out the ReactJs Apps and React-Native mobile apps.
http://newslinn.com

- Designing and developing the open source architecture based on Python, Django, PostgreSQL and ReactJS.
- Implementing the AI and Machine learning core features
- Creating MVPs end-to-end prototypes of working features.
- Designing the development workflow and tools (vagrant, docker, webpack, Geny Motion)
- Defining the API’s and system boundaries (DJango REST framework / NodeJs)
- Choosing the ecosystem of Software LifeCycle Tools & knowledge sharing tool, PiWIK, Trello, Pivotal, Slack, Skype, MailChimp, Google Apps, RoundTable, PingDom, Wordpress, 
- Projects: Photo Inbox, AI / ML Engine, Website, IOS and Android Smartphone Apps, Web App, Photo Analyser, CMS.
- Development Tools & Technology: PostrgresSQL, Redis, AWS, Jenkins, Vagrant, Docker, TerraForm, Photoshop, jQuery, PyKE, Celery, Sci-kit Learn, node.js, socket.io, express, MongoDB, Nginx, gunicorn, supervisord, celery flower, apache, mariaB, PHP, Javascript, Git, Gerrit, selenium, wordpress, boto, s3, PiWIK web stats.

Wonga

I’m was technical lead for a team ranging from 4-12 for the South African dev team (based in Cape Town). I was responsible for everything day to day. I worked in the team coding feature tickets and on the team in terms of technical growth, code quality, doing code reviews, feature quality, scrum practices,  devops, investigating bugs, system performance testing, dev training and coordinating other teams in Dublin/London to integrate platform features into the ZA product. In short, getting things done and making things better. https://www.wonga.co.za/

- Designing, developing and maintaining message based windows services using NServiceBus and a mix of SOA for third party api’s
- Being a ScrumMaster for a team of 12 working closely with product owners to lead a cross functional team of front-end developers, backend developer and QA to deliver numerous projects in an agile environment.
- Maintaining high availability of production system. On call duties, monitoring and third line support. - Proactively benchmark servers via NewRelic and perform intensive debugging on major problem using Splunk, NewRelic, SQL Sentry et. al.
- Inter team communication with BI, DBA, Security, Risk, UK Front-end.
- Delivering projects through several quality gates and environments via automating testing using jenkins and Go for unit testing and integration testing in 4 different environments (local, integration, staging, preprod).
- Releasing code to production every second week.
- Estimate user stories, organise backlog, manage scrum cermonies (huddle, planning, retro, agile games).
- Projects: PayLater, Short Term Loans UK, Short Term Loans ZA, Instalment Loans ZA. FCA (Financial Conduct Authority) requirements for UK/ZA.
- Development Tools & Technology: Visual Studio 2013/2015, MSSQL & SQL Server 2008, Git, Jenkins, Thoughtworks Go, Jira, NuGet, Artifactory, Crucible, Splunk, Gerrit, Agile, Scrum, log4net, Octopus, Mentoring, Test Driven Development and Pair Programming.

Principal Technical Lead / ScrumMaster / Senior Software Developer

Startup Team Labs

Writer on the topic of scaling startup teams, agile leadership, solutions for startup culture and scaling  scrum.

Contributing Writer

I am an engineer mixed with product manager. Actively coding and doing customer discovery.

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