Tuenti

From the leading Social Network to the the first social MVNO

Enabling the expansion of the MVNO to multiple countries. Championed embedding quality on teams' processes through continuous inspection, adapt and follow up and revision of XP practices and Scrum techniques.

Endource

The ultimate fashion catalogue and buying platform. Shop the press in a single place, featuring all the products recommended on the best fashion publications.

Joining a start-up from its inception, when the whole technical operation is run by a team of three means working in a fast- paced environment and deciding the right stack to use, and minimising waste is crucial. You get involved in the implementation of the whole stack, from the VueJS front-end to the AWS continuous delivery platform through developing the Grails backend or core AWS Lambda microservices. Among my key contributions to the platform I would highlight:

• Endource's search engine, which powers not only the search but the feeds, Recommendation Engine, dynamic pages and SEO
• Content and e-Commerce REST API
• A/B Testing Framework
• Image recognition and machine learning based Universal Size prediction

Left Sky to work remotely during a 35.000 kilometres long road trip around Latin America on a motorhome.

Sky News

The second biggest British online news publisher, delivering content to millions of unique users via all major platforms in the UK and worldwide.

The role commenced by building the new “Products” team and establishing a collaborative working environment with other dev teams whilst there was a continuous rotation of developers among them; later involving educating interested parties. All while resetting expectations and delivering a responsive site for which budget and schedule were widely considered unrealistic from the very beginning.

BBC #NewsHACK II

Winner of “Theming the News” Category

Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master

Sky Find And Watch

The latest portal for discovering Sky’s shows and films. The team developed a flagship publishing tool for the multisite portal where editors could complete both content and layout on-page as users would see it.

I was requested to review and evolve the design of the platform, taking advantage of my previous experience on architecture and coming from a unique outsider point of view. Worked as well as a senior developer on the AngularJS / Grails CMS and providing additional support to the Scrum Master in a unusually large and unbalanced team.

BBC #NewsHACK I

Winner of “Surprise Us” Category

Website of the Year

Technical Leader for “News & Information” website of the year 2013

Sky News Online - BAU

In addition to development, I focused on two areas; the first one being more technical, providing technical guidance to other team members, opting for architectural decisions and championing the technical concerns with stakeholders. The rest of my time I worked primarily with the team's Scrum Master, and Product Owner on daily agile activities and helping define the area roadmap providing technical advice.

Implemented and led the migration from an UK-only site to a global one with multiple editions.

Grails48 International Hackathon

Special Mention for the project “Commute 'n' Bananas”

Sky News Online

Joined due to my previous experience on highly-available live production environments to build the new multi-platform publishing tool on a RHEV / Postgres / Grails / NGiNX stack.

Oracle Certified Java SE6 Programmer

Oracle WebCenter Portal 11g Certified Implementation Specialist

Sky News Online - Stability

Led a team of Vignette CMS / J2EE experts to improve and stabilise the old publishing platform whilst the new one was being built. Analysis of the platform / architecture, identification of weaknesses and feasible enhancements.

Joined Sky

I got the opportunity to learn about Agile Development and Extreme Programming techniques from more mature engineering and delivery teams.

VASS IT

Multiple consultancy projects on Enterprise platforms.

Moved to the United Kingdom

A different engineering culture awaits.

VASS

Multiple consultancy projects on Enterprise platforms.

Software Engineering Bachelors + Master's degree