Experience

Roles, most recent first
NAME	ROLE	STATUS	SINCE	AGE
Balanced Media & Technology	Software Engineer (DevOps Lead)	Completed	Nov 2020	5y10m
SharePlay Interactive	Backend / DevOps Engineer (part-time contract)	Completed	Sep 2023	6m
Independent	Software Engineer	Completed	Jan 2020	10m
Selfscale	Lead Software Engineer	Completed	Jan 2018	2y
Freelance	Independent Software Engineer	Completed	2016	10y

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Software Engineer (DevOps Lead) @ Balanced Media & Technology

Nov 2020 – Aug 2026 · full-time

Ran DevOps and platform engineering for the Hewmen AI data platform: EKS, CI, IAM and developer environments.

Cut CI builds for the main platform monorepo from 40 to 8 minutes using Docker layer caching and sccache for Rust, without carrying stale artifacts between runs; production deploys stopped taking all day.
Software engineer and DevOps lead (senior of two, training the junior engineer into the role) on the Hewmen AI data platform: 11 services on PostgreSQL, MySQL and DynamoDB, with CI and clusters used by 12 engineers across departments.
Operated the production and two staging Amazon EKS clusters, plus per-developer environment clusters, all defined in CDK for Terraform in TypeScript (Helm and Kubernetes providers) and deployed through CircleCI with manual approval gates.

Sep 2023 – Feb 2024 · contract

Part-time: redesigned a live-streaming product as Rust microservices on Kubernetes and owned its platform and CI/CD.

Replaced a single Node.js application that handled one stream with Rust microservices on Kubernetes (users, content, streams, chat, payments), backed by PostgreSQL and Redis: designed the system and wrote the initial services, including several APIs and the chat server.
Replaced a single Node.js application that handled one stream with a multi-user, multi-region platform of Rust microservices on Kubernetes (users, content, streams, chat, payments) on PostgreSQL and Redis, on a team of fewer than five: designed the system and wrote the initial services, including several APIs and the chat server.
Took the product from a single stream to a multi-user, multi-region streaming platform on Kubernetes, on a team of fewer than five.

Jan 2020 – Oct 2020 · full-time

Full-time independent engineering between Selfscale and Balanced Media.

Full-time: designed and built server software, APIs and tooling in TypeScript, JavaScript and Lua for online communities running 200+ concurrent users; published fivem-webbed, an Express-style HTTP router, as open source.

Jan 2018 – Dec 2019 · full-time

Built a truck weigh-in product end to end as its only software engineer, from RS232 scales to the cloud.

Sole software engineer, working directly with the founder: designed and built a truck weigh-in product end to end and deployed it at a live customer site, giving operators real-time access to weigh-in data from the cloud.
Wrote the C++ and Python firmware that reads RS232 truck-scale output on a microcontroller, the Go backend on MySQL, a Vue and TypeScript web front end and a Vue mobile app.
Deployed the system at a live customer site, giving operators real-time access to weigh-in data from the cloud.

2016 – 2025 · freelance

Independent server software, APIs and tooling for online communities.

Took on server software, API and tooling projects alongside full-time roles.
Published open-source tooling, including fivem-webbed, an Express-style HTTP router.

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