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As a consultant at IBM I work for a government healthcare provider, where a live national platform handles sensitive citizen data for services delivered across the country. My role is to lead the day-to-day engineering of one squad, to own and prioritise its backlog, and to act as the escalation point for production incidents on a live service.

My first year at IBM was .NET and Azure. I now work mainly in Python on AWS, and remain hands-on across Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB and S3, with Terraform-managed infrastructure and GitHub Actions pipelines. Much of the live service work is root-cause investigation across event-driven workflows using CloudWatch, Athena and DynamoDB, and the production data fixes that follow are carried out under clinical approval, change control and full audit evidence.

I also mentor and onboard the developers I lead through regular one-to-ones, and represent the squad at the programme's technical leadership forum.

I joined as a mid-level software engineer and left as a senior developer and team lead. I started out helping to rebuild the company's website and ended up leading a team of front and back-end developers, working with Azure, Terraform and ASP.NET. I helped orchestrate the IdentityServer4 integration, which measurably improved load times and customer conversion.

As a senior developer I guided a team of five through Scrum, researching and adopting new tooling as we went, and worked at making it a team where people could use their strengths. Together we overhauled multi-national customer facing applications in React and TypeScript, and moved to .Net Core RESTful APIs, Service Bus architecture and NoSQL data warehousing.

The role built my leadership, communication and problem solving alongside the technical side.

At this consumer-focused firm of solicitors, efficient, user-friendly software played a crucial role in day-to-day operations. My role was to replace system components with best practices and MVC3 under C#, to design and maintain ASP.Net Web Apps and APIs with MSSQL back-end, to implement SSRS reports and TSQL Stored Procedures, and to oversee and expand legal-specific case management systems.

Through my guidance and expertise, the business adopted industry-standard tools including Git and Jira. I also led exploratory research projects into Azure, and contributed to upgrading data warehouse security to the ISO-27001 standard.

For my undergraduate dissertation, 'Accelerometer Games for the iOS Platform', I created a physics-based game for iPhone and iPad. This was a great opportunity to learn Swift and SpriteKit, along with the App Store submission process.

The project was well-received, with the University choosing to use my game as a learning tool and as an example of an exceptional final project during open days.