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I thrive on learning new tools and technologies, whether for critical business projects or exploratory research.\n\nI particularly enjoy projects where I can contribute from inception to completion, starting from loose requirements or a quick sketch and working collaboratively to create valuable and impactful solutions. I am happy working collaboratively or independently, my primary focus is on creating something useful that brings value\u0026nbsp;to\u0026nbsp;people.\n\n\n## Tools \u0026 Technologies\n\n* __Ways of Working__ – Agile, scrum, mentoring, coaching, design thinking, TDD\u0026nbsp;\u0026\u0026nbsp;RDD \n* __Languages__ – Typescript, Javascript, Go, Python, PHP, Ruby \n* __Frameworks__ – Node.js, Express, React, Vue, Laravel, Slim, Kirby, PHPUnit, Vite, Jest\u0026nbsp;\u0026\u0026nbsp;tap \n* __Datastores__ – PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis\u0026nbsp;\u0026\u0026nbsp;BigQuery \n* __Tooling__ – Git, Infrastructure as Code \u0026nbsp;\u0026\u0026nbsp;zsh \n* __Operations__ – Kubernetes, Docker, EC2, Openshift, Azure, Docker\u0026nbsp;\u0026\u0026nbsp;Vagrant \n\n## Experience\n\n### Staff Software Engineer, Snyk Ltd\nOctober 2022 – Present\n\nSnyk provides software security tooling for developers, helping companies use open source software and stay secure.\n\n* Collaborated across engineering units within the organization to prioritize, plan and deliver strategic business value.\n* Coded in TypeScript and Go, deployed in a CI/CD workflow, and automated infrastructure configuration for our services and distributable applications.\n* Exploratory design and architecture work to support the growth of the platform.\n* Improved platform API performance, reliability, and usability through observation and analysis.\n* Mentorship and coaching of engineers within the organization unit.\n* Integrated our tools and products with partner systems.\n* Participated in on-call rotation to maintain and support production services\n\n#### Highlights\n* 0 day gameday - a company wide event to simulate a zero day vulnerability affecting one of our dependencies and simulating far reaching consequences for our customers. \n* Working with engineers across the company to secure their career development and growth.\n\n### Interim Engineering Director, Snyk Ltd\nOctober – December 2023\n\n* Responsible for the security intelligence and data engineering teams behind the open source security products.\n* Worked with the wider engineering leadership team to shape the future direction of the group.\n* Supported the engineering and product teams through a period of transition.\n\n## Previous Experience\n\n### Senior Software Engineer, Snyk Ltd\nDecember 2021 – October 2022\n\n* Shaped our product and guided the team across multiple components and projects.\n* Innovated strategic design improvements for short-term gains and long-term advantages.\n* Contributed code, prototyped, and developed testing strategies with a focus on iterative delivery.\n* Fostered inclusion and growth through pairing, feedback, and mentoring.\n* Collaborated with Product and Design teams to translate requirements into functional features.\n* Ensured consistent developer experience across all Snyk products.\n\n#### Highlights\n* Introducing support for `critical` severity across the entire Snyk platform. This involved working with the product and design teams to ensure the information was presented in a clear and actionable way.\n\n### Software Team Lead, Snyk Ltd\nSeptember 2019 – October 2020\n\n* Providing team members with regular feedback, mentoring, and coaching.\n* Hiring the right people to support the team's growth.\n* Organizing and facilitating quarterly team planning sessions for our distributed team.\n* Working with your team’s product manager to plan and achieve goals to ensure the team communicates proactively and sets realistic expectations with their stakeholders.\n* Balance feature delivery with ongoing technical investment.\n\n#### Highlights\n\n* Introduced an experiments based methodology for the team which offered us the opportunity to explore and enhance the engagement and adoption of our features.\n* Leading planning sessions as part of the annual all-hands meeting and presenting the results back to a 200 strong audience. \n\n\n### Developer, Snyk Ltd\nOctober 2017 – September 2019\n\n* Designing features with the product team based on user needs and outlining their implementation. \n* Deliver a SaaS application incrementally in a full CI/CD workflow.\n* Working as part of a distributed team, communicating clearly and proactively. \n\n#### Highlights\n\n* Introducing Vue to begin the migration from a server rendered application to one with more client side components to support more interactive user experiences. \n* Migrated the e2e test suite from Nightwatch to  Cypress making it easier for developers to run and author additional tests locally. \n\n### Technical Lead, Bravo Charlie Mike Hotel\nJanuary 2015 – October 2017\n\nDesign and branding agency working internationally to deliver projects for clients across a wide variety of sectors.\n\n* Lead delivery of all digital projects within the company. This covers each step of a typical project life\u0026#8209;cycle and managing client relationships.\n* Project scoping and management with clients to ensure their systems are delivered on time.\n* Accompany the company directors to new business pitches, providing bid\u0026#8209;winning technical ideas.\n* Work closely with designers to implement prototypes which demonstrate how their visuals can be achieved across devices. \n* Provide documentation and training during the project completion process.\n* Design and implement feedback cycles with client’s to enable sprint based approach on larger projects.\n\nAlongside the demands of client work I have also:\n\n* Built bespoke invoice software for the company and introduced specialist accounting software to automate most of the financial tasks.\n* Maintained the studio's suite of machines (primarily OSX)\n* Introduced offsite backup procedures to ensure ultimate resilience for the company's data.\n\n#### Highlights\n\n* Working with the estates team at Kings Cross to put together a performance piece with fountains, powered by GIF imagery, to accompany a string quartet at Kings Cross Granary Square. As part of the designjunction event, it attracted over 25,000 visitors over the weekend. \n* Introducing the team to new methodologies and techniques, such as weekly sprints, mobile first and responsive design patterns. \n\n### Director, LA Code \u0026 Design Ltd\nDecember 2012 – 2014\n\nWorked as full stack web developer on a contract basis with a number of London based design firms. \n\n* Working alongside designers from the earliest stages of prototyping and scoping out projects through to completion, troubleshooting and handover.\n* Providing in-office training as part of the hand-over with the client teams.\n\n#### Highlights\n\n* Working alongside multiple teams across different studios. This offered me the chance to experience different working methodologies. \n* Being able to have the flexibility to attend industry events in the UK and abroad.  \n\n\n### Developer, Signal Noise\nSeptember 2010 – November 2011\n\nAs the first hire at this data design agency, I worked directly with the design directors in building out web projects and physical prototypes. \n\n\n### Sessional Lecturer, University for the Arts London \u0026 University for the Creative Arts\nSeptember 2010 – June 2012\n\nI focused on introducing web technologies as a medium for editorial output, across a few undergraduate and postgraduate level courses. The short course was split between introductory sessions and workshopping on a one to one level with individual students.\n\n### Developer, Inventive \u0026 Co\nSummer 2010\n\nWorked alongside a senior developer to design and build out a bespoke CMS for a production studio. Notably this system handled video uploads and transcoding of video formats for playback a custom Flash media player.\n\n## Volunteering\n\n### Board Member, One Army Foundation\nJanuary 2024 – Present\n\n### Maintainer, Community Platform for One Army Foundation\nOctober 2021 – December 2023\n\n## Interests\n\nAway from the computer, I’m a keen cyclist and can often be found meandering around the Dutch polders looking for a hill to roll down. I enjoy longer endurance rides, the longest one to date being ~250km.\n\nI’m also in the early stages of learning Dutch, maar het is langzaam proces\n\n\n## Education\n\n### University for the Creative Arts\nSeptember 2007 – June 2010\n\nBA Hons - Graphic Design New Media 2:1\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fthisislawatts%2Fcv","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fthisislawatts%2Fcv","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fthisislawatts%2Fcv/lists"}