Ten years of walking into other people’s systems.

Cheddar

Personal project

A six-wheeled articulated rover: custom electronics, motor control, and a pile of 3D-printed parts, built to move over rough ground.

Lead Software Engineer

Rocket Science Group · Cardiff

Technical leadership and hands-on engineering for AAA and indie game clients inside the Terminal Velocity studio, across data, backend, platform, and live operations.

• Lead high-value engagements across data, backend, platform, and live ops, owning technical direction and delivery.
• Step into ambiguous, high-risk projects to diagnose, align stakeholders, and restore confidence in delivery.
• Design and build large-scale data platforms unifying financial, marketing, player-behaviour, and in-game economy data.
• Design multiplayer backend SDKs and engine integrations for major cloud providers.
• Shape new work through discovery, pre-sales, workshops, estimation, and solution design.
• Coach engineers beyond my own teams, raising the bar on system design and decision-making.

GrimoireML

Personal project

An AI deckbuilder for Magic: The Gathering that turns a messy card pool into playable decks.

Senior Platform Engineer

Cazoo · Greater London

Improved developer productivity across the engineering organisation from within the Developer Experience team, by cutting cognitive load and standardising common workflows.

• Used data to find developer pain points and prioritise the tooling that mattered.
• Built reusable, automated platform capabilities that were simple and consistent to adopt.
• Made infrastructure as code the default across environments.
• Defined golden paths that baked observability, security, and compliance into the developer experience.

Senior Data Engineer

Made Tech · for Skills for Care

Built extensible data pipelines and machine-learning models supporting the UK adult social care workforce, working alongside a small analyst team.

• Provisioned AWS infrastructure with Terraform and built pipelines to underpin analytical and ML models.
• Developed models in Jupyter across a small Spark cluster, then productionised them with software-engineering rigour.
• Wrote a full suite of unit, integration, and quality tests to keep the data trustworthy through change.
• Mentored three client analysts from zero software experience to owning a large, multifaceted pipeline.

challenge-sql

Personal project

A Pokedex-themed SQL teaching resource for people learning to query.

Senior Software Engineer

Made Tech · for DVLA · Swansea

Helped fully digitise the DVLA's first provisional licensing service as part of a multi-squad Nexus Scrum team.

• Built an internal staff portal in React and JavaScript.
• Built the public frontend in Ruby on Rails to GOV.UK standards.
• Backed both with a serverless AWS backend: Step Functions, Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, SQS, and SNS.
• Used Elasticsearch for efficient reads and reporting.

GeneticRacers

Personal project

Cars that teach themselves to drive: a genetic-algorithm racing experiment in Unity.

Exhausted

Personal project · Cardiff

A physics-based, post-apocalyptic vehicular combat game in Unity: arcade-feel PhysX vehicles, campaign and arcade modes, and plenty of explosions.

• Behaviour-tree vehicle AI driving a custom agent over Unity's navmesh.
• A range of cars, weapons, and environments to experiment with.

Gravitap

Personal project · Cardiff

My first published Unity title: a physics-based mobile game released to the Google Play store.

Senior Software Engineer

DabApps · Cardiff

Consultancy engineering: designing architectures for client requirements and acting as a technical bridge between what clients asked for and what they needed.

• Designed architectures to fit real client requirements rather than the reverse.
• Worked client-facing to turn vague asks into workable technical solutions.
• Built backends in Python, Django, and Postgres; frontends in React and TypeScript.
• Ran server configuration and deployments on Heroku and AWS.

Data Engineer

BT · Cardiff

Built data pipelines handling the throughput of the UK's largest telecoms provider, including Hermes, a self-scaling analytics engine collating logs and metrics across the Global Services stack.

• Co-built Hermes to deliver live insight and Kibana visualisations over the whole application stack.
• Built and configured the platform from scratch on Docker and Docker Swarm.
• Moved and processed data with Kafka, the ELK stack, Hadoop, Sqoop, Hive, and Spark.

Production Database Administrator

BT · Cardiff

Ran a large Oracle 9i to 12c estate with a strong focus on automation tooling and monitoring, alongside migrations, upgrades, and performance work.

• Built automation tooling in Python and Bash to take the toil out of the estate.
• Built monitoring and analysis platforms, including database-link visualisations, on the ELK stack and Hadoop.
• Handled migrations, upgrades, and schema changes across Oracle RAC, Data Guard, and Networker.

Managercash

Freelance

Led two developers and a designer building an Android personal-finance app with wallets, budgets, and saving goals. Paused when it hit scaling limits.