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Senior software engineer with 9+ years of experience designing and delivering scalable software solutions across energy, travel technology, and AI domains. Expertise in backend engineering, cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, data-intensive applications, and AI/LLM model training and evaluation.
Experienced leading technical delivery of enterprise platforms, real-time monitoring systems, analytics dashboards, and machine learning workflows. Strong background mentoring engineers, driving projects from concept to production, and delivering robust, observable services with APIs, data pipelines, and automation.
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Work Experience
Pod Lead / Senior Software Engineer / SWE Workbench Trainer (Contract) at SWE Workbench
October 2, 2022 - PresentServed as a senior contributor and technical lead across multiple AI model training and evaluation initiatives. Participated in large-scale training and benchmarking projects focused on LLM reasoning, software engineering reasoning, and code generation quality, including LaTeX-focused training and evaluation for mathematical reasoning and formatting accuracy. Evaluated and improved model performance across codebase understanding, debugging, refactoring, and software development workflows. Worked extensively on SWE Workbench / SWE-Bench style projects involving repository analysis, issue resolution, and code quality assessment. Developed evaluation frameworks and QA processes for model outputs, collaborated with distributed teams to improve benchmark accuracy/reliability and task completion rates, and mentored contributors as a pod lead across AI initiatives.
Senior Software Engineer at Shell Energy
May 1, 2018 - October 1, 2022Designed and developed enterprise-grade software solutions supporting operational decision-making within energy and drilling environments. Led development of real-time monitoring systems enabling engineers and stakeholders to track well performance and operational metrics. Built and enhanced the Morning Wells platform for near real-time visibility into critical drilling and production data. Developed parameter comparison services to analyze operational trends, compare drilling parameters, and identify optimization opportunities. Engineered interactive drilling dashboards centralizing operational KPIs, performance indicators, and field activity data. Designed scalable backend services and REST APIs supporting high-volume data ingestion, processing, and reporting. Improved system reliability, performance, and observability through automation, monitoring, and operational excellence initiatives; collaborated with product owners and domain experts to translate business requirements into rob
Software Engineer (Contract) at Skyscanner
August 1, 2016 - April 1, 2018Developed backend services supporting high-traffic travel search and booking platforms. Contributed to scalable systems handling large volumes of user traffic and travel-related data. Built and maintained APIs and services used across multiple customer-facing applications. Participated in performance optimization initiatives improving reliability and responsiveness of critical services. Worked within agile engineering teams delivering production-quality software via continuous integration and deployment practices. Collaborated with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to deliver customer-focused features.
Education
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at University of Bristol
September 1, 2013 - June 1, 2016Qualifications
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Energy & Utilities, Software & Internet, Travel & Hospitality, Computers & Electronics, Professional Services
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