HUVR offers a purpose-built platform for industrial inspections in the energy sector, combining a web and mobile app to help field inspectors capture their work and give companies a centralized system for managing inspection data.

I reported directly to the CTO and worked across the entire technology stack to bring new features from concept to deployment. I handled everything from gathering requirements to designing, building, testing, and maintaining code across the stack made of PostgreSQL, Python, Django, JavaScript, React, Redux - all running on Google Cloud Platform.

Working as part of a small 4–6 person development team, I was able to take ownership of major parts of the platform. Some highlights are the following:

* Single Sign-On (SSO): Built SSO using Google and SAML to enable seamless one-click login and onboarding for enterprise users

* Intelligent Ingest: Developed a smart media upload system that automatically links photos and videos to the correct project using timestamp and location metadata

* Data pipeline: Designed and built a data pipeline extracting 300k rows a week from a third party API and consolidated into a database

In 2022 I was promoted to Engineering Team Lead at Yobota, leading a team of four engineers. Following our acquisition by Chetwood Bank, I was asked to also lead the Quantitative & Simulations team - expanding my scope to 10 direct reports across two teams. With this increased responsibility, I shifted my focus toward team development, engineering process improvement, and collaborating with executive leadership on strategic initiatives.

My leadership work included: documenting and improving the team’s development process, mentoring engineers to support their growth and career goals, and organizing regular social events to build team morale.

Despite a heavier focus on management, I remained hands-on and contributed technically where I could. Notable contributions include:

* Designed and implemented an integration with Worldpay (by FIS) for online card payments which processed £130M in four months.

* Helped architect a new type of Deposit Account product within our banking platform

* Built custom GitHub Actions to support development workflows, including a Django migration validator and an automated regression test runner

I was promoted to Senior Software Engineer in recognition of the technical leadership and value I brought to the business. I became the go-to engineer for anything related to third-party integrations, leading the design and delivery of solutions that connected our platform to external systems.

In this role, I took on high-impact projects that required both architectural planning and strong communication skills. I worked closely with clients, internal stakeholders, and partner Account Managers to scope and implement new features and integration strategies. I was also trusted with recruiting responsibilities for our team and others.

Notable projects:

* Integrated the Yobota Banking Platform with Salesforce CRM to sync customer records

* Designed and launched Direct Debit functionality for a new business banking client

* Proposed and implemented a system-wide architecture improvement for better modularity and separation of concerns

* Delivered technical presentations to both engineering and cross-functional teams

I joined the company as employee #20, into a small team of 2 people. Our team was responsible for handling all communications from our internal banking system to external third parties such as Banks, Credit Bureaus, Payment Providers, CRMs, and more. We developed and maintained an API that performed a number of tasks such as inbound and outbound payments, direct debits, credit checks, customer communications, etc.

I was tasked with developing new features, performing maintenance on the system, helping investigations during production incidents, assessment and interviewing of new candidates. As the company was quite small, the scope of my role changed often and I took on lots of different tasks and adapted to changes in the organisation around priorities and restructures.

Some examples of projects I worked on include following:

* I designed and developed a testing framework used internally and by our QA team to ‘fake’ responses from our third parties

* added Prometheus metrics to our API and built a Grafana dashboard to view the system health/stats

* implemented an auto-scaling process for our hosted servers based on a Redis datastore to improve cost efficiency

* integrated with AWS Secrets Manager to more securely handle third-party credentials

* designed and implemented new Django REST endpoints for new features and a framework for segregation of accounts using a Postgres Database cache