Cloud & Data Consultant
Manta Innovations Ltd. ⦁ 2018 - 2020

• Cloud Architect - responsible for designing and implementing cloud architecture for scalable systems, most frequently using IaC
• Senior Engineer - responsible for designing and implementing big data, machine learning, and cloud applications; and establishing software best practice including establishing DevOps principles - ensuring code is thoroughly tested and meets high standards utilizing CI and CD
• Previous major clients include HSBC, RELX, RBI, Quantexa, and Blackcat Technology Solutions
• Projects have included: designing and delivering a Serverless Data Pipeline platform for a client, delivering big data pipelines for fraud detection software, design and delivery of automated systems regression suite for Serverless applications
• Toolkit: Scala, Python, Go, Elm, Terraform, Docker, Git(Hub/Lab), CircleCI, Apache Spark, TensorFlow, AWS, SQL, NoSQL, Linux

Senior Developer
LimeJump Ltd. ⦁ 2018 - 2019

• Designed and implemented a real-time Big Data Lake solution using Apache Spark Streaming, Scala, Kafka, AWS Glue, Athena, and S3 to process over 3000 messages per second (300 million messages daily)
• Provided technical guidance to analysts and developers on Machine Learning and Python
• Built dockerized energy trading service on AWS ECS with Python-Django REST framework
• Redesigned cloud architecture for scalability, security, and reliability using Terraform and Saltstack
• Designed CI/CD solution to improve code quality, test coverage, and speed of development

Senior Data Scientist
BAE Systems Applied Intelligence ⦁ 2015-2018

• Lead a team of 5 on a large scale big data project owned by one of the UK’s largest Telecommunications companies; developing a framework to ingest and process vast amounts of transactional data using Scala, Python, Spark, and HDFS to process over 2TB of data per day
• Implemented data mining and ML techniques to deliver production level data solutions
• Used NLP techniques and Vector Space Models to tokenize and categorize user freetext data. Explored semantic orientation to identify emotion and opinion
• Used graph theory to model complex networks and uncover patterns of events, then predict up- coming events using Multinomial Linear Regression, enabling the client to pre-emptively avert disastrous situations
• Head of Analytics Capability - training junior staff and producing technical summaries, and newsletters in applications of Data Science with Python

Risk Analyst
Ascot Underwriting Ltd ⦁ 2014 - 2015                                                                  

Data Analyst
Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust ⦁ 2013 - 2014