Work History
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Work history
UpStack
Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
2019 - Present (6 years)
Creating and developing innovative software solutions for clients across a broad range of industries.
Participate in scrums consisting of cross-functional teams, both software and hardware.
Ensure that features are being delivered efficiently and on-time.
Kajima Community
Ruby on Rails Developer
2018 - 2019 (1 year)
Northampton, United Kingdom
Contributed to the BookingsPlus project; developing a tailored bookings solution for the NHS Property Services.
Built new features and feature enhancements; by contributing to ongoing maintenance of the bookings solution.
Embraced solid development practices, provided constructive pull-request reviews and maintained existing functionality for the client.
Soho House & Co.
Ruby on Rails Developer
2018 - 2019 (1 year)
Developed and improved software solutions used on integration tasks between Soho Works and Salesforce.
Collaborated with other developers to solve complex user cases, improved implementations, and reviewed code for efficiency.
Resolved defects/bugs during QA testing of software solutions, pre-production, production, and post-production releases.
Healios
Ruby on Rails Developer
2018 - 2018
Southampton, United Kingdom
Designed, developed and implemented a user-facing feature to allocate clients to clinicians and schedule future bookings.
Worked on the iteration of several screenings being rendered to children on Healios' platform.
Wrote robust, scalable, well-designed, easily maintainable and well-tested software that delivered great value to the business.
Coca Cola European Partners (via Zone Digital)
Full Stack Ruby on Rails Developer
2017 - 2017
Steered the implementation of CCEP's intranet website in a few more countries.
Improved user engagement with CCEP's news sections on the homepage.
Designed robust, scalable and secure features on the solution.
BookingBug
Ruby on Rails Developer
2017 - 2018 (1 year)
Reviewed requirements, specifications, and technical documents for the development of an ETL solution for the new integration API with a US Bank.
Explored technical trade-offs in the implementation of tickets relating to the API.
Wrote solutions that were simple, maintainable, and reusable; improving the scalability and performance of Bookingbug's platform.
Public Health England
Ruby on Rails Developer
2016 - 2017 (1 year)
Restructured the Campaign Resource website; applying better programming patterns and tidying up the models into solid concerns and services.
Increased the website's test coverage; by implementing unit and feature tests on the solution for efficiency.
Followed the latest coding techniques, standard practices and approaches on the project.
Rise To
Ruby on Rails Developer
2015 - 2016 (1 year)
Actively participated in Rise To's engineering culture rooted in collaboration, humility, trust, responsibility, and learning.
Contributed to all phases of the development lifecycle within Rise To; writing clean, maintainable and efficient Ruby on Rails code for projects.
Identified bottlenecks and bugs, and devised solutions to complex problems on Rise To's platform.
Skype in the Classroom
Ruby on Rails Developer
2014 - 2015 (1 year)
Developed software and technology solutions for Skype for Teachers app.
Reviewed designs, code and unit test plans where applicable; testing and debugging code for the Skype for Teachers platform.
Enhanced the consistency and maintainability of solutions by creating, maintaining, and enforcing standards/procedures.
HomeServe Alliance
Ruby Developer
2014 - 2015 (1 year)
Offered guidance for the development of a gem to import data into an Amazon Redshift database.
Engineered solutions on the website to display metrics stored on the Redshift Database.
Built microservices to the database for the website to deliver targets for the client's outbound email campaigns.
Tesco Plc
Backend Ruby Developer
2013 - 2014 (1 year)
Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Worked on the backend development and engineering of a supply chain system for Tesco.
Designed and built an online mainframe emulator with the ability to support multi-language translations.
Actively participated in the setting up of standards to select criteria for tools/tech stack on the project.
Showcase
Ruby on Rails Developer - iCarePT (Near real-time Monitoring)
Developed a solution for near real-time monitoring of customer experiences across various touchpoints (IVR, websites, etc.).
The solution collects and records data from diverse sources, serving as a primary data source for infographics and dashboards.
Implemented an alarm and notification system to detect problems and trigger alerts for team response.
Ruby on Rails Developer - LM Translator
Developed an online mainframe emulator with multi-language translation capabilities.
Utilized Ruby on Rails, Backbone.js, ApolloMQ, MySQL, and JavaScript libraries for project development.
Implemented automation processes to improve project delivery and efficiency.
Ruby on Rails Developer - LMI Connect
LMI Connect is a web application for managing user interaction with Tesco's legacy s3270 logistics management system.
It facilitates deployment and translation of information to group countries in Thai, Hungary, Czech, and Korea.
The application was developed using BackboneJS, Underscore/MousetrapJS/JQuery for the frontend, and Redhat Linux, Apache, and MySQL for infrastructure.
Education
Engineer's Degree in Computer Software Engineering
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
2002 - 2008 (6 years)
Scrum Master
Scrum Alliance
2011