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I am relatively agnostic to industry, but generally interested in B2B SaaS with a strong founding team preferably with a history of being in startup land.
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Head of Engineering @ media agency exploring a product-led tech spinout
March 2025 - Ongoing
- Led engineering to validate building a tech company on top of a media agency
- Conducted customer interviews, market research, and development cost modelling
- Facilitated product ideation sessions focused on LLM applications for efficiency and client outcomes
- Built an LLM, RAG-powered workflow for Google Ads optimization that outperformed human accuracy
- Implemented ETL from ad platforms to Snowflake with evaluation pipeline for LLM performance
- Created classification workflow using Snowflake, Pinecone and Python statistics libraries
- Developed React JS frontend for human-in-the-loop triage workflow
Senior Software Engineer, Security @ multinational identity and access management company
June 2022 - March 2025
- Architected and built a system enabling security practitioners to schedule real-time and historical analysis of security data in Snowflake; ran ~10,000 security detections daily across the data platform
- Set up CI/CD pipeline using CircleCI and Terraform for infrastructure management
- Developed Python codebase on a serverless, event-driven architecture (EventBridge, SQS, Lambda, Snowflake)
- Accelerated detection development with open source libraries (SQLGlot) and robust testing practices
- Contributed to a custom ETL pipeline (Lambda, DuckDB, Snowflake) processing TBs of security data daily
- Built security automations integrating third-party APIs and Slack bots to streamline investigation activity for analysts
Detection & Response, Security @ buy-now-pay-later fintech scaleup
January 2022 - June 2022
- Threat-modelled and wrote security detections on top of Snowflake data to identify suspicious activity across SaaS applications
- Investigated security incidents triggered by these detections and external events
- Built security automation to improve daily reporting and detection-writing
Software Engineer @ email security startup (Series B; backed by Sequoia Capital — Sequoia Capital's first investment in Europe)
October 2019 - December 2021
- Built services that classified 10 million inbound emails daily using Python on top of S3, Kinesis, SQS, and Postgres
- Owned and built Terraform and CI/CD pipelines for all services
- Developed Python services for data aggregation and NodeJS APIs for the React frontend
- Optimised multi-tenanted Postgres database, managing migrations and roll-outs
- Co-built an internal authentication framework and systems for secure multi-tenanted data access in AWS
- Created a framework for rapid demo account setup (under an hour) for different client profiles
- Shipped features from discovery through testing to implementation and roll-out
- Conducted security research in spare time, identifying various vulnerability classes in the product