World-leading researcher, publisher, and provider of products and services
supporting international education.
As the technical lead for Cambridge University Press & Assessment’s (CUPA’s) ELiT division I’ve driven organisational growth of a globally distributed team whilst fostering an increased sense of culture and community, mentored junior developers and first time managers, increased deployment frequency whilst reducing costs and maintaining reliability, and turned stalled projects into successes.
2023–presentTech Lead: Applied AI for English Language Assessment
- Led strategic restructuring of existing engineering team resulting in a 30% increase in deployment frequency.Established and mentored team leads while defining clear ownership boundaries, resulting in improved service reliability and accelerated feature delivery across a micro-services architecture. Balanced delegation with guidance, enabling new leaders to develop leadership skills and strategic capabilities while ensuring consistent delivery quality.
- Modernised DevOps infrastructure and practices reducing costs by 70% and change lead time 40%.Directed migration to GitHub Actions, championed automated quality controls and feature flags. Maintained exceptional reliability while increasing deployment frequency 30%.
- Built and scaled globally distributed engineering teams increasing headcount by 50%Established asynchronous workflows and a culture of documentation enabling effective cross-timezone collaboration. Fostered cohesion through pair-programming and regular knowledge sharing sessions.
- Created collaborative engineering culture achieving 90% participation in knowledge sharing initiatives.Established quarterly technology forums, cross-team squads and working groups, cross-functional book clubs, and standardized tooling practices to drive a shared sense of technical excellence across the organisation.
- Delivered new business-critical platform serving 40,000 daily users within 12 months.Led team of four developers to rescue stalled project with close collaboration with the existing product owner and delivered a platform with a five fold increase in available content that improved key data capture metrics from by 80% within 6 months of operation.