I’m a Senior Software Engineer based in London. Ten years building backend systems that have to keep running: order and inventory platforms, software driving a 24/7 prescription factory, security scanning pipelines, and the platform and ground robotics behind the NHS drone delivery network. Mostly in start-ups and fast paced teams, so I’ve owned the whole lifecycle, from spec and design through to the infrastructure it runs on, and whatever breaks at 3am. These days I spend as much time on architecture, design review and mentoring as on writing code myself.

Experience

Senior Backend Engineer at Apian Aug 2023 to present
Architect the platform behind the NHS drone delivery network, and lead the robotics stack for autonomous in-hospital deliveries.

Senior Software Engineer at Skin + Me Sept 2021 to Aug 2023
Built factory management systems running a 24/7 facility producing thousands of personalised prescription orders a day.

Software Engineer at Bramfitt Tech Labs Feb 2020 to Sept 2021
Built a vulnerability management platform automating application security scanning, rolled out across a major energy company.

Freelance Software Engineer 2019 to 2020
Web applications, integrations and backend systems for early-stage e-commerce start-ups.

Lead Developer at Soda Says Oct 2018 to Dec 2019
First technical hire, automated stock and order management end to end, letting a very small team run at a scale that would otherwise have needed a third party warehouse team and software.

Software Developer at Eve Sleep Sept 2017 to Oct 2018
Dedicated engineer to supply chain and operations, building tooling for logistics, inventory and orders.

Operations, EU at Made.com Jan 2016 to Sept 2017
Automated my own role and several team processes, which turned out to be the start of my engineering career.

Supply Chain Engineer at Kuhn Group Sept 2013 to Aug 2015
Supply chain and operations for an international agricultural machinery manufacturer, in Brittany, France.

Skills

Python, SQL, Bash, Go, JS, Elisp. REST APIs, microservices, message queues, event-driven pipelines. PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, Redis, MongoDB. GCP, AWS, Azure, Terraform, Docker, Linux, CI/CD. ROS 2, Nav2, SLAM. SAST, DAST and SCA. System architecture, design review, mentoring, and a fair bit of soldering.

Projects

A few things I’ve built across widely different domains, hardware, security, fonts and embedded.

Smallcat, 26-key split keyboard, designed end to end, and the one I type on every day.
Shhh, encrypted one-time secret sharing, in Flask.
Secretapi, the successor to Shhh, rewritten in Go with a CLI client.
Rpi-gardener, houseplant monitoring on a Raspberry Pi and a Pico.
Ocrab, a monospace font built from OCR A and OCR B.

More of them on github, or written up on this blog.

Education

2015 MSc, Intl. Supply Chain Management, Rennes School of Business, France
2015 Master’s, Supply Chain, ESLI, Redon, France
2012 DUT, Logistics & Transport Management, UBO, France

References available on request.