Experience

Set technical direction across Storyteq's products and shared platform, working with domain leads and engineers through design and delivery. The work spans platform consolidation, global rollout, rendering and developer tooling.

Key achievements

• Designed and planned the consolidation and global rollout of three content management platforms that competed for the same market. The solution connected incompatible data models through a translation layer and used API versioning to accommodate different release patterns. Aligned twelve teams through implementation. The project was delivered in 13 months.
• Own the architecture of a rendering pipeline that turns one template into video and image variants for different platforms and markets. It handles bursts of 50k+ requests per second, with occasional peaks near 80k.
• Teams released on different schedules, and API changes were breaking products that still depended on older versions. Redrew service and data boundaries and introduced internal API versioning and deprecation, reducing release-related outages.
• Built a workflow using coding agents to investigate security findings and prepare fixes. Code controls workflow state, test execution and retry limits. A separate agent reviews changes against the original requirements before engineers approve and merge them.
• Introduced architecture decision records (ADRs), requests for comments (RFCs) and design reviews. Documented alternatives and trade-offs, then turned decisions into implementation guidance for the teams doing the work. ADRs and RFCs became an organisation-wide requirement.

Focus areas

• Work with domain leads on quarterly plans and dependencies between teams.
• Compare technical options and turn the chosen approach into designs and implementation guidance.
• Review designs and trade-offs with engineers, documenting decisions in ADRs and RFCs.
• Work through difficult technical problems in the code.
• Help teams take responsibility for their services from development through operation, using feature flags and CI/CD.
• Ran testing workshops for engineering teams.
• Built support tools to address gaps in engineers' day-to-day work.

Technologies

• Platform architecture
• Distributed systems
• TypeScript
• Node.js
• LLM orchestration
• GCP
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Helm
• GraphQL
• PostgreSQL
• MongoDB
• React
• Vue
• Angular
• Go
• Java
• PHP

Part of Rangle's support squad, a group of senior engineers assigned individually to client teams facing technical or delivery problems. Worked on 30+ client engagements, becoming productive in unfamiliar codebases within days. Investigated the code and spoke with engineers, product and client stakeholders to understand what was blocking delivery. Agreed the changes needed with the team and client, then worked hands-on with engineers to carry them through.

Key achievements

• Led an eight-week recovery that stopped daily, hours-long outages in a legacy system with more than 10 million lines of code.
• Led a four-person team building a platform for customers and home-service contractors, covering contracts, communication, job scope and payments. The founder later reported that the business had passed $1M in revenue in its first eight weeks.
• Simplified the technical approach for a struggling React Native project. Helped the team understand the underlying Android and iOS behaviour and establish suitable abstractions for testing.
• Mentored engineers through regular pairing. Ran workshops for project teams and the wider organisation.

Focus areas

• Worked on architecture, performance, modernisation and design systems across frontend, backend, mobile and infrastructure.
• Clarified requirements and agreed technical trade-offs with clients, product, design and engineering. Changed scope or team structure when needed to get delivery back on track.
• Coordinated production incident investigations, kept stakeholders informed and recorded decisions. Worked with teams on postmortems and follow-up changes.
• Client work spanned e-commerce, B2B SaaS, marketplaces, retail and workspace platforms.

Technologies

• TypeScript
• Node.js
• React
• Next.js
• React Native
• Vue
• Angular
• GraphQL
• MongoDB
• PostgreSQL
• AWS
• Azure
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Java

Developed Albelli's iOS and Android app in a team of three to four engineers, and worked on the web editor and build tooling. The mobile app generated about €35M in annual revenue during my tenure.

Key achievements

• Co-developed a custom hybrid framework, working closely with the solution architect to refine and implement his design. The team replaced Cordova incrementally to address performance, memory and crash problems. A two-way bridge let the app's web code use native controls and photo pickers on both iOS and Android.
• Cut full debug and release builds for both iOS and Android from 50 minutes to 12 by rebuilding the CI/CD pipeline.
• Built customisation flows for photo books, calendars, mugs and wall decor.
• Built real-time 3D mug previews that adjusted to device performance.

Focus areas

• Mentored junior developers through regular pairing.
• Added automated tests to catch regressions as the app grew.
• Optimised startup and memory use.

Technologies

• iOS
• Android
• TypeScript
• React
• CI/CD
• Java
• Kotlin
• Swift
• Objective-C
• Cordova
• Three.js