Grouper is an “Offline Social Club” who joined YCombinator in 2012. In 2013 Grouper decided to pivot towards a mobile-first experience, and I was brought onboard contracting as a senior full-stack developer. I worked under the guidance of Tom Blomfield, Tom Brown and Michael Waxman to deliver the backend services that powered the platform. Notably, I built the recommendation engine, the matching engine and a significant part of our asyncronous billing system. more»

Grouper is an “Offline Social Club” who joined YCombinator in 2012. In 2013 Grouper decided to pivot towards a mobile-first experience, and I was brought onboard contracting as a senior full-stack developer. I worked under the guidance of Tom Blomfield, Tom Brown and Michael Waxman to deliver the backend services that powered the platform. As part of an ongoing initiative, we frequenlty built off-shoot products and experiments in order to test our assumptions about our market. more»

Immerse is a VR startup based in London, UK. Immerse provides an enterprise virtual reality CMS and Unity SDK . I joined the company in 2017 as a DevOps Engineer to lead the company’s effort in becoming a global VR platform. Notably, my efforts at Immerse include; building a deployment system which allows us to deploy, update, and scale global infrastructure within minutes modernising their infrastructure in AWS using terraform reworking their Unity3d build pipelines and configuring Team City introducing test suites and TDD to existing development teams working with the QA department to develop inter-project acceptance tests using capybara more»

Quiqup is a realtime delivery platform. Quiqup provides a customer-facing iOS application which allows customers to order from any restaurant or store in London and get it delivered within minutes. In addition, Quiqup provides a B2B web application and a RESTful API for integrating their delivery platform into any eCommerce system. I joined Quiqup in 2015 as a senior full-stack developer as we were pivoting from a customer-facing application, to a more enterprise offering; as well as expanding into Dubai and other locations. more»

Quiqup is a realtime delivery platform. Quiqup provides a customer-facing iOS application which allows customers to order from any restaurant or store in London and get it delivered within minutes. In addition, Quiqup provides a B2B web application and a RESTful API for integrating their delivery platform into any eCommerce system. I joined Quiqup in 2015 as a senior full-stack developer as we were pivoting from a customer-facing application, to a more enterprise offering; as well as expanding into Dubai and other locations. more»

Then she gets up and leaves. The patient is still on dialysis, still bleeding in places, and their internal organs are still on show for everyone else in the room. The patient’s immediate future is secure, but eventually they are still going to bleed to death. As a DevOps engineer, perhaps one of the best things you can do for an engineering team is to empower them to write and utilize tests. more»

In this video we will set up an automatic deployment CI/CD pipeline which deploys our static website to S3. We will then create a Terraform project which will orchestrate resources in AWS, and create an S3 bucket, and IAM user to use in our pipeline. With the IAM credentials and S3 bucket, we create a CircleCI workflow which builds our website from our GIT repository, and then pushes our rendered website to S3. more»