Engineer who cares about the last 10%

I joined the internet banking team to ship features and fix defects, and quickly noticed that many of those defects came from the same few under-owned corners of the codebase. Alongside regular delivery I started standardising component structure, extracting reusable utilities and unifying naming across the 100K+ line app. Defects dropped by 56%.

I also took on the parts of the product customers feel: loading states, redesigned screens and accessibility. See the case study for details.

OAK’S LAB is a product studio building software for startups and enterprises. I spent most of my time on Nasdaq Private Market, owning features such as portfolio holdings and the pre-platform onboarding flow, and cutting the load time of its financial dashboard by two thirds.

I then moved onto the NXT hiring platform, built by two engineers on top of the studio’s platform base: onboarding for companies and candidates, jobs and applications, pre-screening, notifications and chat, deployed to Google Cloud.

At Datamole I owned the web application for the High Throughput Screening Reactor, a laboratory device scientists use to run many experiments in parallel. The UI had to configure, schedule and monitor experiments while streaming more than a thousand data points every second into interactive charts. See the case study.

I also started Cupcino, a portal for a fleet of connected coffee machines, from an empty repository: the data model, the API, authentication and both application foundations, plus the migration of the legacy database, before handing it over to the team that grew it. See the case study.

My first lead role: a small team building the portal IPEX’s wholesale partners use to manage communication services, orders, billing and support tickets. I introduced consistent React patterns and an automated Cypress test suite, which noticeably reduced production bugs.

A plugin management portal for ERSTE Group, covering how plugins are created and taken through the approval process inside the group. React and Redux on the front end, Java with Spring and Hibernate behind it.

Where I started, while still at university: several Liferay portals, with Java, Spring and Hibernate on the server and Java Server Pages with JavaScript on the pages themselves.