About Me

Swytch empowers people to choose sustainable transport by electrifying their existing bicycle. This has enabled over 100,000 users to reduce emissions and make eco-friendly travel accessible worldwide.

• Led the full development lifecycle of a bespoke ERP system, including a warehouse management platform for stock management and international dangerous goods shipping, stock forecasting, returns handling and lots more. See more about this project.
• Through careful architecting of a scalable and robust system, alongside prioritising delivering value quickly, I enabled multiple daily releases and rapid iterations on features, allowing us to deliver exactly what was needed. For example, it enabled a just-in-time stock pivot, reducing stock overheads by £1M.
• Through putting users first, I was able to convert ideas and painpoints into a cohesive platform that transformed operations, taking on-time deliveries from 30% to 70% while reducing operational costs.
• Fostered a culture of continuous learning and development, applying principles from “The Phoenix Project” and “Turn the Ship Around,” mentoring a junior developer effectively, and improving communication to align priorities across the business.
• Keeping up to date with the latest technologies, I was able to quickly implement and deploy new features and tools, such as using large language models to automate parts of customer support and augment existing workflows. Through delivering training, I was able to increase the impact of these tools and empower users to independently improve their own workflows on minimal budget.

ElbowSpace aimed to combine modern web development standards with the requirements of Student Unions to improve the student experience.

• I led development of a custom platform for Student Union membership management, making sure it was secure, user-friendly and what Student Unions needed.
• I worked closely with customers and other developers to target features and prioritise development.
• As the first hire at ElbowSpace, I played an integral part in managing the direction of the company, gaining a much wider experience of running a startup and the opportunities and pitfalls involved.
• Through analysing and assessing new technology for suitability, I was able to make architectural decisions that allowed us to change and pivot features to suit different customers needs.

Jadu is a CMS for local government, higher education and healthcare. It allows organisations around the world to build the best possible connections to their customers via low-code products.

• I worked in a small engineering team to deliver bespoke sites to a number of UK councils.
• Working in a larger organisation, I was able to learn a lot about scrum, project management and how organisations can scale and continue to work efficiently.
• I collaborated with the core CMS developers to ensure a smoother developer experience and quicker results for the customer. This included both using the core CMS code to extend what customers needed, as well as opening lines of communication to the core CMS developers to make sure they were able to meet the needs of customers and proactively improve the platform.
• I took the initiative to improve tooling around the CMS, including adding Docker support and extending documentation for a better developer experience.

Bristol Student Union provides a range of services to help students navigate their student experience.

• I was initially hired as a student for data entry, but quickly spotted opportunities for systems improvements and quickly became a developer, going full time immediately after my degree.
• I developed multiple bespoke platforms and tools to reduce cost and friction in day-to-day work, allowing the union to focus on the more important things for students.
• I independently spotted and implemented process improvements throughout the organisation. One of the largest projects involved a greenfield project to transform how student groups were managed and how they interacted with the union, leading to a 50% reduction in the time spent annually.
• As the sole developer in a company of around 200 people, I was able to gain a wide range of experience in many different areas and languages. I was also able to truly understand how developers can help organisations whose main focus is not IT and software.

Consult Believe is a consultancy company that provides web development services to small businesses.

• I worked in a small team providing a consultancy service to several clients, using bespoke systems and well-known frameworks such as Drupal.
• Being focused on customer success, I was able to provide a great service to customers whilst keeping our workload sustainable.
• Despite the limited time in the internship, I was able to learn a lot about web development and the frameworks available, and improve my code and approach to code from day 1.

• Dissertation involved designing a neural network using Tensorflow to analyze data from the Large Hadron Collider to classify particle collisions. View paper
• Multiple coding modules, involving highly optimised programs running on supercomputers.
• Through a rigorous course of study alongside web development jobs, I was able to gain strong analytical and problem-solving skills, as well as a deep understanding of the underlying concepts of physics and mathematics and how they can be used to solve real-world problems.
• Since I self-taught myself to code, I know exactly how I learn and how I can learn quickly, and therefore I was able to quickly adapt to new technologies and frameworks I hadn't seen before.

• 37 points with highers in Maths, Physics and Economics.
• My extended essay involved using Python to carry out a fourier transform on a signal, to allow a guitar to be tuned to the correct pitch.