Engineering Leadership Profile
Career Highlights
Senior engineering leader with a strong record of platform delivery, technical strategy and team growth across high-availability product environments.
Work Experience
Bede Gaming
2016 – Present | Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom | Hybrid
Senior Software Engineering Manager (2023 – Present)
I lead a platform engineering workstream across multiple teams, owning technical strategy, organisational design and delivery outcomes. I work at the intersection of architecture, delivery and people, translating long-term modernisation goals into practical, prioritised initiatives that teams can ship with confidence.
Related Skills: Engineering Strategy, Technical Leadership, Platform Ownership, Organisational Design, Stakeholder Management, Delivery Management, Team Development, Coaching and Mentoring, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Architecture Governance, Capacity Planning, Risk Management
Lead Software Engineer (2021 – 2023)
As Lead Software Engineer I owned technical delivery for complex platform features and supported engineers through design, implementation and release. I worked closely with product, architecture and QA to convert requirements into deliverable milestones while maintaining engineering quality, reliability and pace.
Related Skills: Technical Leadership, C#, .NET, Azure Cloud Services, SQL, Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub Actions, TeamCity Continuous Integration, Hangfire, Azure Service Bus, Octopus Deployment, CI/CD, Distributed Services
Software Engineer (2016 – 2021)
As part of a feature team I delivered work across services within the core Bede Platform. This role gave me broad exposure to backend development, integration patterns and operational improvements in a high-availability production environment.
Related Skills: C#, .NET, SQL, Azure Cloud Services, Service Integrations, API Development, Continuous Delivery, Production Support
Saggezza, Associate .NET Developer (2015 – 2016)
In this role I was primarily involved with full stack .NET development as part of a scrum team. This role gave me the opportunity to rapidly expand my commercial engineering skills and build strong foundations in modern development practices.
Related Skills: C#, EntityFramework, ASP.NET MVC, SOLID Development, Test-Driven Development, AngularJS, Mocha Testing, Bamboo Continuous Integration, PowerShell Scripting, JIRA
The Test People, Test Analyst (2014 – 2015)
In this role I worked primarily in performance testing in an agile environment. The work required solving technical challenges in a tool-agnostic way for different client contexts, often involving quick adoption of new technologies and approaches.
Related Skills: Python, Agile Methodologies, Performance Testing, Citrix Automation, Selenium WebDriver, Mobile Application Testing (Appium)
Certifications
Certified Scrum Developer – Scrum Alliance (2015)
Awarded by Scrum Alliance during my time at Saggezza, this certification validates practical capability in Scrum delivery, team collaboration and agile engineering practices.
ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level – ISTQB (2014)
Awarded by ISTQB during my time at The Test People, this qualification provides a solid foundation in testing principles, test design techniques and quality assurance best practices.
Education
Chartered Management Institute – Level 5 Apprenticeship, Operations Manager (2022 – 2025)
Grade: Distinction
I completed this apprenticeship while performing in Software Engineering Manager and Senior Software Engineering Manager roles. The programme strengthened my leadership and operational management capability in areas directly relevant to engineering management.
Northumbria University – Games Programming (2011 – 2014)
Grade: 2.1
I studied Games Programming at Northumbria University and also acted as course representative, working with faculty staff and representing feedback from my class.
Gateshead College – BTEC Level 3 in IT Applications (2009 – 2011)
Grade: Distinction
I completed a BTEC Level 3 in IT Applications with a full distinction, covering core technical foundations across programming, web development and databases.