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Remote.com

AI & Knowledge Management Team

I joined the Remote.com AI and Knowledge Management team in 2023. On this team I was technical lead for a number of projects:

  • Knowledge Management & AI Governance Data Pipeline
  • AI Support Chatbot
  • AI Support Email Auto-Responder
  • AI Evaluation Framework
  • Ask An Expert (backend)
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Global Entertainment Company

Restructuring & Cost Reduction

I began consulting for a global entertainment company in 2021. I lead the project to restructure and dismantle a Kafka-based event-sourcing system costing the business tens of thousands of pounds every quarter in infrastructure costs.

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Wi5

Order & Pay System

I joined Wi5 in 2018, and worked as Tech Lead working predominately on their architecture, AWS infrastructure, and building their Point-of-Sale integrations and payment processing systems. Wi5 was a POS integrated Order & Pay system for the hospitality industry. Wi5 has since pivotted to focus on payment processing and renamed to “Onvi”.

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Immerse VR

Globally Distributed VR Networking Platform on AWS ECS

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 their lead DevOps Engineer to lead the company’s effort in becoming a global VR platform.

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GitLab Orchestration

Do you need an experienced GitLab expert to help you?

Gitlab has quickly become the de-facto standard for code building sophisticated CI/CD pipelines, due to it’s flexible nature and diverse feature set. However, managing Gitlab workflows across multiple projects and teams can be challenging. This is where I can help.

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Kubernetes Administration

Cluster got you down? Hire a Kubernetes expert.

Kubernetes is the platform for buliding platforms. In the right hands, it is an incredibly powerful and versitile tool for building scalable, resilient, and efficient systems.

Unfortunately, Kubernetes comes with a steep learning curve and requires a lot of time and effort to master. If you need a certified Kubernetes Administrator, get in touch.

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CoCoach

CRM Application Backed by Ruby on Rails

Cocoach is a business coaching and business management application for real-time collaboration, document creation and project management.

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21 Commandments for Greenfield Development

A Developer's Guide to New Projects  

The “greenfield” project is known by developers as a productivity Nirvana. It is a beautiful place where there is no legacy, no bugs and endless possibilities. It is also littered with mines.

I’ve recently seen a number of anti-patterns around the creation and early growth new projects, and thought I’d summarize the anti-patterns I’d seen in the past as a guide for developers to avoid these common pitfalls.

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Cloud Native London

London DevOps Meetup  

Members of the Cloud Native London Meetup had the pleasure tonight to hear some amazing speakers.

The first talk was called Switching Horses Midstream: The Challenges of Migrating 150+ Microservices to Kubernetes where Sarah Wells, the Technical Director for the Financial Times spoke about their migration from disperate Docker containers to a microservice architecture orchestrated with Kubernetes.

The FT’s content platform team put our first containers live in mid-2015 and migrated the rest of our services over by April 2016. We weren’t using Kubernetes but in late 2016, we decided we wanted to benefit from the work other people were doing and switched over to Kubernetes. We had 150+ microservices and needed to keep the existing platform running in parallel.

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