I’m a software engineer with over 20 years experience designing and building backend systems.
My experience spans startups, small businesses, and larger organisations. I have a proven track record of team and project leadership, taking ownership of architecture, process, and product direction. I seek environments where I can guide platform direction and engineering practices, preferring technical leadership over pure people management.
I'm the author of Dogma, an open-source ecosystem for building distributed event-sourced applications in Go. This project reflects my focus on building maintainable systems with clear architectural boundaries and a positive developer experience.
I care deeply about how software is built, both for the practical benefits to the team, and for the love of the craft itself.
Engineering of distributed and centralized systems with an emphasis on clarity, modularity, and long-term maintainability.
Selection and integration of storage solutions to meet varying performance, durability, modelling and access requirements.
Implementation of authentication, identity, and access control systems across cloud, platform, and application boundaries.
Development of pipelines supporting fast-feedback, repeatable builds, and low-friction deployments.
Design and operation of development and production infrastructure, valuing operability and developer experience.
Instrumentation and operational readiness practices to improve visibility, reliability, and response across distributed systems.
Shared responsibility for technical and product leadership across a startup delivering “Compliance as a Service” to online gambling operators. The platform enforced state-specific geolocation and regulatory controls as required by United States legislation. BetSecure shares a parent company with Codeworx, my previous employer.
Recruited engineers to form cross-functional teams with frontend, backend, mobile, and DevOps skillsets. Established remote mob programming as a core practice. Eliminated pull requests and asynchronous reviews in favour of continuous collaboration, reducing overhead and context switching.
Directed the architecture and implementation of backend systems, including geolocation services, API gateways, and compliance logic. Services were built in Go using an event-sourced architecture, following CQRS and domain-driven design principles.
Held long-term responsibility for the architecture, quality, and continuity of backend systems supporting the company’s online poker and sports betting platforms. Led the team through a major strategic shift from a large PHP monolith to a distributed architecture in Go, built on CQRS and event-sourcing principles.
Recruited and mentored engineers, established engineering practices, and provided hands-on technical leadership as the company shifted from product ownership to delivering software for affiliated businesses.
Member of a team of PHP developers responsible for the backoffice and player-facing features of the company's online poker and casino gaming platform, which powered Poker.com during the height of poker's global popularity.
Fostered cross-team collaboration with the engineers responsible for the poker gameplay components, enabling deeper integration with backoffice systems. This empowered operations staff to configure complex gameplay and promotional aspects without developer involvement, significantly reducing toil and increasing operational flexibility.
Streamlined daily operations for field technicians by developing an on-site job management system incorporating scheduling, time tracking, and invoicing features across desktop and early smartphone devices.
Worked largely independently with technical guidance from a skilled Python developer. Collaborated with the general manager, acting as product owner, to keep features aligned with established business processes.
Enabled the company’s expansion into dedicated hosting and co-location by leading the development of a comprehensive business operations platform that supported all aspects of daily operations, including ordering, billing, issue tracking, DNS zone management, network automation, and asset tracking.
Dogma is a comprehensive set of tools for building distributed event-sourced applications in Go.
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