Senior Software Engineer at Deliveroo
For more than five years I've worked on the systems that decide what a Deliveroo customer pays: fees, benefits and pricing, from the home page to checkout. I'm happy where I am, and something serious would still get my attention.
I'm a backend-leaning full-stack engineer who likes turning tricky problems into simple, well-tested systems. At Deliveroo I've been through the IPO, the push to profitability and the DoorDash acquisition, and I'm often the person teams ask about how fees really work. These days I'm known as the caretaker of our fee services, keeping them fast, efficient and reliable.
My route here wasn't a straight line. I started on the shop floor at Waitrose, where I learned to run a shift, train people and look after customers. After a First in Computer Science I went to Sydney to work on VoIP software, then tried London startups before moving into engineering for HMCTS and HMPPS, then Rightmove, then Deliveroo. I still bring that product and customer view to everything I build.
From college to Deliveroo. A dashed line marks time between jobs.
Senior Software Engineer since May 2023, Software Engineer before that
Go, TypeScript, Ruby, gRPC, GraphQL, Postgres, Redis, Kafka, AWS, Terraform
Deliveroo joined the DoorDash group in 2025. Alongside this I've been a volunteer advocate with Goblins, a Discord community for meeting friends and playing games, since . I welcome new members, give people a safe place to talk when something's wrong, and run in-person meet-ups.
Software Engineer, Vendor and Evaluate teams
Java 11, Spring Boot, Elasticsearch, React, GraphQL, Node.js, Kafka, Docker, Jenkins
Software Developer, junior level
Java 8, Spring Boot, Postgres, Docker, Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, AWS
Gathered requirements with stakeholders and built scalable VBA tools, bringing better engineering practices to the team.
Learned JavaScript and Meteor on the job and shipped first features within two days.
Ran the shop floor on shift, mentored staff and owned a store section's sales analysis and ordering. Taught myself VBA to automate the store's stock macros.
Generated leads and partnerships for a London food-tech events startup and ran events on the day.
Part-time Product Management course.
Project manager and technical consultant on hackathon-style projects for social enterprises.
Technical Product Manager and Support Engineer
Owned features for a Java EE VoIP routing platform and rebuilt its OS image, cutting setup from hours to minutes. Also ran the Glebe backpacker community as a volunteer, from to .
Repaired community centre computers and explained technical problems in plain terms to older users.
Nearly four years of customer service, training partners, managing shifts and owning a store section's ordering, stock and wastage. Represented the store at Partnership Council.
BSc (Hons) Computer Science, First Class. Specialised in system architecture and networking. Cisco CCNA, 2012.
BTEC National Diploma for IT Practitioners, IT and Business (DMM).
Certifications: Certified ScrumMaster, Scrum Alliance ( to ). Cisco CCNA (2012).
Changing a fee took days of careful manual work, and pricing needed to scale across every step of an order. I built internal tools that cut configuration to minutes, helped design the core service behind fees, benefits and pricing, and now support its move to the shared Wolt, DoorDash and Deliveroo platform.
The page people read before booking a viewing lived in an ageing legacy codebase. With the Evaluate team I built its replacement, front end and API, using Spring Boot, React and GraphQL.
Sold prices lived in the same legacy codebase. I worked on the web, API and search services that replaced it, using Spring Boot and React: refactoring, load testing, UI work and the Elasticsearch upgrades behind sold property search.
I worked on the panel that invites homeowners to ask local estate agents for a free valuation, shown alongside sold prices.
Courts and tribunals services needed shared components for handling case documents and evidence. I helped build common components for the platform and acted as Scrum Master, in the open. See 176 merged PRs on GitHub.
A secure gateway for partner data exchange, built with Java and ServiceMix on AWS, with ELK monitoring and Ansible automation.
Personal projects and experiments are on GitHub.
I want to work on consumer technology that makes everyday life better. Helping people buy a home at Rightmove, get dinner from Deliveroo and deal with the courts through HMCTS all mattered to me for that reason.
I'd love to try smart home and hardware, consumer or geo-based data such as putting useful data on maps, and health tech that helps people understand their own data.
I work best fully remote, without weekly office days or a two or three day pattern. I'm happy to visit occasionally or on request, and stay over if a hotel is included. I'd prefer a permanent role, and I'd consider contract work for the right project. Flexibility matters to me in both directions: I'll be there for the team outside normal hours when it counts.