TrustedHousesitters

TrustedHousesitters

5 years 3 months

Accomplishments

  • Scaled Consumer Base: Successfully scaled the platform's user base from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of users, delivering an investment-ready product and winning the "Most Effective B2C App" award.
  • Accelerated Search Performance: Boosted search page speeds by 200% by completely redesigning the Elasticsearch index, converting numeric fields to keywords, implementing folder-context routing, and performing in-memory tuning on hot index segments.
  • Modernized Architecture: Transformed a legacy monolithic system into a highly scalable, containerized microservices architecture utilizing Docker and AWS.
  • Accelerated Release Velocity: Built a comprehensive CI/CD pipeline alongside an ecosystem-wide E2E testing framework, significantly reducing deployment friction and accelerating feature delivery.
  • Engineered Asynchronous Processing: Built a resilient distributed task queue and an automated media management pipeline to handle heavy, asynchronous processing of photos, videos, and multi-format documents.
  • Multi-Language Delivery: Maintained hands-on full-stack contributions across a diverse technology stack (Swift, Kotlin, Java, React, Python/Django, and Go), establishing engineering standards that enhanced cross-team execution.

  • Principal Engineer

    Aug 18 - Feb 201 years 7 months

    Brighton, UK

    Responsibilities

    • Technical Strategy & Direction: Directed the overarching technical roadmap and engineering delivery across all iOS, Android, and web platform architectures to support rapid business scaling.
    • Team Leadership & Scale: Built, scaled, and mentored the cross-functional engineering team, managing recruitment pipelines and introducing production incident support protocols.
    • Cross-Functional Alignment: Partnered closely with product management and executive stakeholders to translate high-level business strategy into executable, scalable technical milestones.
    • Platform Governance: Accountable for engineering standards, web platform infrastructure, API design, and multi-platform release quality frameworks.

    Accomplishments

    • Scaled Consumer Base: Successfully scaled the platform's user base from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of users, delivering an investment-ready product and winning the "Most Effective B2C App" award.
    • Modernized Architecture: Transformed a legacy monolithic system into a highly scalable, containerized microservices architecture utilizing Docker and AWS.
    • Accelerated Release Velocity: Built a comprehensive CI/CD pipeline alongside an ecosystem-wide E2E testing framework, significantly reducing deployment friction and accelerating feature delivery.
    • Multi-Language Delivery: Maintained hands-on full-stack contributions across a diverse technology stack (Swift, Kotlin, Java, React, Python/Django, and Go), establishing engineering standards that enhanced cross-team execution.

    Stack

    • Objective-C
    • Swift
    • Java
    • Kotlin
    • Python
    • JavaScript
    • iOS
    • Android
    • AWS
    • Docker
    • MySQL
    • Node.js
    • Redis
    • Ruby
    • Redshift
    • Elasticsearch
    • Docker
    • CI
    • Bash
    • Nginx
    • Linux
    • React Native
    • ReactJS
    • Django

  • Lead Engineer

    Dec 14 - Aug 183 years 9 months

    Brighton, UK

    Responsibilities

    • Distributed Services Architecture: Accountable for the technical design, engineering, and performance optimization of core backend services and distributed system layers.
    • Data Infrastructure Ownership: Managed the platform's search infrastructure, indexing strategies, and high-volume media processing pipelines.

    Accomplishments

    • Accelerated Search Performance: Boosted search page speeds by 200% by completely redesigning the Elasticsearch index, converting numeric fields to keywords, implementing folder-context routing, and performing in-memory tuning on hot index segments.
    • Engineered Asynchronous Processing: Built a resilient distributed task queue and an automated media management pipeline to handle heavy, asynchronous processing of photos, videos, and multi-format documents .

    Stack

    • Objective-C
    • Java
    • Python
    • JavaScript
    • AWS
    • Docker
    • MySQL
    • PostgreSQL
    • Node.js
    • Redis
    • Redshift
    • Elasticsearch
    • Memcached
    • Docker
    • CI
    • Bash
    • Go
    • Nginx
    • Linux
    • React Native
    • ReactJS
    • Django