Work Experience

Ocado Technology

Senior Software Engineer (E3)

Apr 2023 - Present

• Promoted to Senior Software Engineer after on year of outstanding performance as a Software Engineer.
• Having recently changed team, I have adapted quickly to the new domain, and have been able to be productive in the new area from day 1.
• Started taking more significant decisions around architecture and design.
• Mentored more developers, some new to the company altogether whilst others new to the team.
• Took a leading role in setting up the brand new teams' processes.

Software Engineer (E2)

Feb 2022 - Apr 2023

• Promoted to Software Engineer after one year of outstanding performance as a Junior Software Engineer.
• Started taking on more responsibilities outside my team, including joining a working group that discovered, designed, and released a production application in only a couple months, which was seen as very successful and brought value to our shareholders.
• Developed from start to finish the frontend for an application in React, which received great feedback and cost little maintenance.
• Gave knowledge sharings presentations about technologies like Grafana, psql, and Prometheus to other developers.
• Redesigned our CI/CD pipelines to make use of more Gitlab features, greatly improving our ability to deploy continuously, test, and rollback if necessary.
• Wrote internal scripts & tools around Gitlab CI/CD that is shared with other teams at Ocado
• Took initiative to improve the team's processes and tools.
• Took a leading role in maintenance and support of the application. Participating in the Rota and training new developers to join the rota.
• Mentored new developers within our team, helping them get started with our tech stack, and getting comfortable working within our team.

Junior Software Engineer (E1)

Nov 2020 - Feb 2022

• Joined Ocado in 2020 with a strong desire to learn and grow in my career.
• Quickly became a productive member of the team by learning React, Spring Boot, and Java.
• Gained a deep understanding of programming concepts and best practices, quickly learning best practices of object-oriented programming, unit testing, and using git for version control
• Developed a strong understanding of adjacent technologies such as GitLab, Kubernetes, Postgres, and design patterns.
• Greatly improved page loading times by finding poorly optimized SQL queries, and writing better queries. Improving a page from 15 seconds to 3 seconds. Later presenting this investigation and optimization to the wider department at my team lead's request.