Senior Scala Architect London

Skills

• .NET
• AAD
• AI Integration
• Akka
• Akka Streams
• AKS
• Amazon APIs
• AWS
• Azure
• Azure Data Explorer (ADX)
• Azure DevOps
• Azure Event Hubs
• Bash
• c#
• C++
• Chaos Testing
• ChatGPT
• Data Pipelines
• devops
• Docker
• Ebay APIs
• ETL
• F#
• Farmer
• FreeBSD
• FreeBSD Jails
• Gatling
• GitLab
• Grafana-style system testing
• gRPC
• Headless Browsers
• IaC
• IIS
• Infrastructure Architecture
• JVM
• Kubernetes
• Kusto
• LinkedIn Automation
• Linux
• Load Testing
• Mac OS X
• Mentorship
• Metasploit
• MS SQL
• Nix
• NixOS
• NuShell
• OCI Containers
• Oracle DB
• OS/2
• Performance testing
• Perl
• Play Framework
• PostgreSql
• PowerShell
• Prompt Engineering
• Python
• QA Automation
• Redis
• REST
• RHEL
• Scala
• ScalaTest
• Service Fabric
• Silverlight
• Software Architecture
• Spec2
• Starburst
• Technical Leadership
• Terraform
• Test Architecture
• Windows Server Core
• WPF

Experience

Feb 2024 - Jul 2025

Senior Development and DevOps Consultant at UBS

– Enabled faster and more resilient delivery processes across GCTO and core engineering teams
– Established a culture and technical foundation for ephemeral and reproducible infrastructure and applications from the ground up
– Designed and delivered a secure, Kubernetes-based developer desktop environment with no permission escalation, browser-only access, and no client-side JavaScript
– Introduced and productionized Nix as the primary package manager
– Designed and delivered ephemeral, reproducible Kubernetes infrastructure and supporting platform components
– Contributed to the design and production delivery of Starburst (data ingestion and governance platform) integration
– Designed and implemented shared core deployment libraries

Aug 2023 - Mar 2024

Founder / CTO at RecruitM8

– Established a three-way collaboration model between development, architecture, and domain expertise
– Designed and delivered a branded MVP slice for an AI-driven, LinkedIn-based recruitment research and outreach workflow

Sept 2020 – Aug 2023

Senior Software Engineer at 1E

– Established and drove adoption of a functional programming culture based on F#
– Introduced a 100% ephemeral and reproducible infrastructure and application model from the ground up
– Designed, implemented, and delivered ephemeral, automatically reproducible cloud infrastructure
– Platformed the flagship Tachyon product on Windows Server Core
– Designed, implemented, and delivered a lift-and-shift SaaS solution
– Designed and delivered an F# prototype simplifying core Tachyon router components

2020 - 2020

Senior Software Engineer at BeautyStack

– Delivered a well-architected system test framework for validating the order flow of
the BeautyStack site
– Mentored junior engineers

2019 - 2020

Senior Software Engineer at Allen & Overy

– Introduced aks
– One of 2 main architects behind the data ingestion layer for multiple AI products (NDA’ed here can’t talk much)
– Got the data ingestion layer into production
– Set patterns and developed architectures for FE and API based system test frameworks

2017 - 2024

CTO/CTA/Senior Software Engineer at Direct Trade Services Arbitrage

– Delivered a production deployment of price arbitrage tooling
– Enabled automated listing and retrieval of product descriptions for 500,000+ items across eBay
– Implemented continuous observation and dynamic repricing for 500,000+ products on eBay and Amazon, maintaining competitive undercutting in near real-time
– Established a functional programming-based culture emphasizing speed and reliability
– Designed, implemented, and delivered eBay integration for arbitrage workflows
– Developed automated market pricing, undercutting tools, and listing generation with data mining capabilities

2018 - 2018

Senior Performance Engineer at Sky

– Worked as part of the core data science team and delivered an event proxy to use with Service Fabric debugging
– Worked as part of the customer service development team in order to design, test and deliver a metrics monitor framework for customer advisor team leads

Apr 2017 - May 2017

Senior Software Contractor at Dr Foster

– Helped deliver graphene (order metadata service)

Jun 2015 - Jan 2017

Senior Software Engineer at SimCorp Ltd.

– Designed, implemented, and delivered Order Manager as a standalone deployment
– Developed and delivered a UX automation framework
– Designed, implemented, and delivered an Oracle database diffing tool
– Contributed to multiple releases of Order Manager
– Designed and delivered API test clients
– Supported delivery of Bloomberg market replay tooling

Nov 2014 - May 2015

Software Engineer at Moonpig.com

– Designed, implemented, and delivered a load testing framework for the main site
– Produced performance reports to ensure peak-time market readiness
– Developed and delivered a system test client for core purchase API flows
– Achieved first place in a hackathon for the “order a birthday card via SMS” project

Mar 2012 - Nov 2014

Software Engineer at Trayport

– Designed, implemented, and delivered chaos testing frameworks for the front end (including random walker / Anton’s tool)
– Developed and delivered Joule Core extraction as a test client for the flagship TGW click-trading back-end product
– Won a team hackathon with the “Hack a computer by looking at it using Google Glass and Metasploit” project
– Contributed to the WPF rewrite of Joule (click-trading front end)
– Supported delivery of market replay simulation tools

2010 - 2011

at Self Employed

– Short term software development projects and contracts

2007 - 2010

CTO and Head of Pricing at Climacz Music Network Limited

– Contributed to making the company a leading seller on eBay and Amazon marketplaces
– Designed, implemented, and delivered data mining tools to support automated listings and dynamic pricing
– Developed and delivered infrastructure, networking, and FreeBSD-based servers for internal operations

Education

Computer Science at University of York