App Engineering Lead at Hoppa

Joined as the first engineering hire for a greenfield React Native app, establishing the technical foundation, development workflows, coding and testing standards, and CI/CD. Scaled the team to four developers and one QA, led onboarding and ongoing professional development, and defined architecture for state management, navigation, folder structure, and inter-feature dependencies. Built core screens including onboarding, home, and profile, and essential UI elements such as the balance card. Implemented design-system-driven components using styled-components to ensure consistency and scalability for a 20-person development team. Established coding standards, feature and component structures, and conducted regular code reviews to maintain quality. Delivered regular demos to stakeholders and kept E.ON Next informed of progress.

Senior Software Engineer at The Economist

Part of the Audio & Core team responsible for authentication, audio, and native features in The Economist's flagship React Native app. Developed a native background-download feature with Swift and Kotlin, enabling weekly downloads while users sleep. Maintained Node.js microservices for packaging data/assets per edition and sending silent push notifications to registered devices via AWS Lambda with Serverless. Refactored authentication and audio to reduce re-renders and debt; improved performance and maintainability. Managed release processes with Fastlane and CircleCI; collaborated with senior executives to discuss technology roadmaps and ongoing challenges.

iOS Developer at Bet365

Part of a small team building a new hybrid native Swift iOS app for an audience of over 25 million monthly users, contributing to over 300 million downloads since launch. Built high-performance solutions ensuring rapid updates from trader confirmations to UI changes. Enhanced a custom UI framework and data layer, supporting regulatory requirements across seven regions. Oversaw payments, user menu dropdowns, and push notifications; implemented front-end modules in TypeScript that bridged to in-app browser components. Developed a custom Node.js test runner to execute a suite of 700 UI tests across 25 devices in parallel, reducing test time from 24 hours to five.