Software Development Manager leading backend engineering teams within Tesco's Personalisation space. The first team owned a high-throughput Kafka platform (~5k messages/sec) handling user interaction data across all customer touchpoints. I led a major Kafka system upgrade, aligning stakeholders and supporting dependent teams to migrate smoothly, ensuring minimal disruption and timely delivery.

Currently leading the Favourites & Substitutions team, delivering high-availability, low-latency Java services that expose data science insights to frontend systems, handling ~50k calls/min for Substitutions and ~20k calls/min for Favourites. Key initiatives include a team technology migration leveraging CoPilot to accelerate development, launching Recently Viewed carousels to increase sales, and collaborating with Data Science to expose new substitution algorithms. Focused on team growth, operational resilience, and cross-team collaboration in a fast-paced environment.

Engineering Manager at Tarabut Gateway, an Open Banking and Open Finance facilitator across the MENA region. Tarabut enabled certification for ~90% of banks in Bahrain and the first three banks in Saudi Arabia, working closely with financial authorities and tier-1 banks in a highly regulated environment.

Led multiple engineering teams delivering bank integrations and customer-facing platforms, combining hands-on technical leadership with people management. Worked directly with banks, regulators, and non-technical stakeholders to integrate partners into a rapidly emerging Open Banking ecosystem, while improving delivery quality, security posture, and operational maturity.

BuilderStorm is an award winning, disruptive tech solution for the construction industry. They aim to provide all the software a construction company would need to effectively collaborate on all their projects. With a focus on document control, BuilderStorm have a module for all aspects of construction, starting from the plot of land, working through logistics, hiring, training and quality control of the final buildings. One of my responsibilities was the future planning needed for R&D, how systems were to be structured, resource planning and alignment with other stakeholders. My biggest impact was the creation of a system allowing propriety documents to be viewed without them being sent as attachments via email.

Movem were a property-technology (prop-tech) company that used proprietary algorithms to parse transactions to assess tenant affordability. The company was dissolved when it was acquired by Barbon in June 2019.