2023 — Now
London, England, United Kingdom
2021 — 2023
London, England, United Kingdom
2019 — 2021
London, United Kingdom
Credit platform leveraging ML and massive datasets to model a forward-looking view of borrower financials and monitor the lender’s portfolio.
Working in Ingestion Squad, on a mission to onboard financial data under a standardized format. My squad is the backbone of the company and works on the most significant architectural projects at this stage of the product cycle.
Own the delivery of the Ingestion UI, which allows onboarding massive borrower financials. Key features: massive tables, drag & drop interactions, data validation. Currently in production across all client stacks.
Own the delivery of the Financials UI, which allows viewing ingested financials and on-the-fly calculation of forecasts. Key features: massive tables, currency conversions, live calculations. Currently in production across all client stacks.
Replicate the company’s public website using modern static web technology (GatsbyJS) in 2 days during the hackathon. Currently in production.
An active participant in FE guild initiatives, improving the overall quality/modularity of the codebase. Examples: facilitate the move to micro-FE architecture, own IE 11 compatibility efforts, reduce FE bundle size, standardize table components, devise custom lint rules to enforce good practices.
Work closely with Product, Design, Squad Leadership, and BE to prioritize tasks, estimate efforts, break down complex stories into sensible implementation steps while avoiding getting caught up in unimportant details.
Occasionally act as a Scrum Master for the team: coordinate daily stand-ups and retrospectives, facilitate unblocking issues.
Conduct technical interviews to access candidates for technical positions.
Have a strong emphasis on testing and overall quality of the code base.
Tech Stack: FE – Typescript/React/GraphQL, BE – Python/Django/Postgres, AWS/Docker/Kubernetes, Kafka, Test – Jest/Cypress.
2018 — 2019
London, United Kingdom
Analytical & Quantitative
Co-created a Korean modern banking solution from scratch. Devised market offering, technical features, roadmap, and a high-conversion website. Stakeholders raised $35,000,000 within 30 days of the crowd sale.
Expanded to a new customer segment after introducing an approach for low-cost, high-quality website development initially designed for market assumption validation. This segment constitutes 6% of sales.
Established client transparency tools with notifications, dev status overview, and low-touch automated reports resulting in increased customer satisfaction & retention, and decreased reporting times by 70%.
Leadership
Acquired and negotiated deals with 2 clients in Q2 2019 bringing 60% of quarterly sales. Subsequently, one of these clients (associated with NHS) offered another project that will result in > £200,000 of sales.
Co-created a new offering of impact-oriented digital transformation solutions.
Introduced many standards which became best practice and de-facto guidelines for product development.
Project Management
Within 2 weeks recovered a poorly implemented React Native project by re-working the codebase to resolve a set of architectural and functional issues, resulting in the successful delivery and continued a fruitful relationship with the client.
Oversaw an entire project lifecycle from initial requirements gathering and feasibility analysis to effort estimate, pricing, sprint planning, resource allocation, code reviews, and commissioning solutions.
Amassed a database of cross-functional contractors for outsourcing; instituted interviewing routine.
Team & External Communication
Collaborated closely with the clients during development iterations, reported directly to the CEO.
Coached the team on Agile, usability and performance standards, tools, and test-first approach gradually improving their skills resulting in fewer bugs, faster turnaround and higher quality overall.
2018 — 2018
London, United Kingdom
Translated a complex web-view app into React Native/MongoDB/AWS stack by re-building it from scratch. Features: rendering 100+ large images in a single view, Tesco & Ocado integration, offline text & images, cloud infrastructure setup & migration. The resulting app is 50% faster than its predecessor.
Delivered a robust React website for Egypt’s leading plexiglass manufacturer which scores 100 in Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, SEO, and PWA in Google Lighthouse audit.
Implemented 3 production React websites for rootnode with rich CSS/SVG/JS animations and 3D.
Technical
Agile Certified Practitioner, Continuous Innovation, Design Thinking, Design Sprints, OKRs, KPIs.
Jira, Trello, Git, Npm, Webpack, ESLint.
Front-end: React & React Native, Redux, GatsbyJS, Javascript (ES5/6)/HTML5/CSS3, CSS Pre-processors, Styled Components, Bootstrap, CSS/JS/SVG Animations.
Back-end: Node, Firebase, AWS, MongoDB Cloud, REST API, GraphQL, MySQL.
Data Structures, Algorithms, OOP, Computational Complexity, Different Languages, Integration.
Responsive, Best Practices, Cross-Browser, UI/UX Design, Infrastructure Management, SEO readiness.
Introduced the latest tech stacks for appropriate projects.
Designed responsive UI components and layouts either myself or as a design lead for most of the projects.
Team & External Communication
Contribute to initial requirements gathering, story definition, code reviews, releases, and regular clients updates & showcases.
Take a pro-active approach throughout a project lifecycle by giving professional advice on best practices, potential design flaws, and viability in relation to effort/cost for the clients.
Education
King's College London
Bachelor’s Degree
St. Andrew's College, Cambridge