CTO | Devops

CTO, 360Living GmbH
Berlin DE
September 2016 – July 2018
? Built and manage infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible to ensure infrastructure is both version
controlled and consistent across all environments
? Set up codebase on docker and CI scripts to ensure local environments were identical staging and
production environments and transition of code from development to desired environment was seamless
? Implemented the use of the Agile Methodology and effective planning in the organization for concise and
reachable 2 week sprint deliverables
? Built and helped set up team culture and ensured the necessary tools, equipment were available to
developers and the organization
? Managed the Engineering budget to ensure we were within the allowed limits as well as forecasting
financially and conceptually in tune with the vision for the company.

Head of Engineering, Bandist GmbH Rocket Internet Venture
Berlin DE
March 2016 – September 2016
? Based on requirements clearly defined by the directors and PMs we worked on an initial strategy for defining
the technology stack as well as on the future roadmap and KPIs required for the project
? Adhered to Agile methodology and 2-week release cycles
? Helped manage the AWS infrastructure using terraform to automate the infrastructure setup and
maintenance
? Infrastructure included docker, CircleCI for automated deployments and Multi AZ ELB for high availability,
scalability and automated recovery amongst others
? Helped build a cross-team culture within the organization and manage the mobile and backend teams to
deliver committed targets within the sprint time required.

Head of Engineering, Sparklist GmbH (Rocket Internet Venture)
Berlin, DE
September 2015 – February 2016
? Built a mobile and development team from the ground up by creating the hiring criteria and assessment tests
required, conducting interviews and helping build an onboarding process for new employees
? Effectively planned in conjunction with the directors and PMs for future road maps for the project ensuring
that the goals were attainable and in line with the company vision
? Ensured team adhered and followed Agile practices and had 2-week cycle releases
? Managed both a mobile and php backend dev team to deliver and maintain a global Android and iOS app
? A coder at heart I also personally worked on our backend PHP framework as well as frontend to ensure
there was a secure, extendable and scalable REST API that worked with both iOS and Android app.

Software Engineer / Team Lead, Rocket Internet
Berlin DE
March 2015 – August 2015
? Led a part team in highly pressurized project with deliverables and weekly reported KPIs
? Took ownership and responsibility for major and sensitive sections of the project such as payments and
product indexing and retrieval in ElasticSearch
? Worked in a cross-functional team to launch ventures within extremely short cycles and under high pressure

PHP Developer, Twentysix Ltd
Leeds UK
September 2014 – March 2015
? Worked with OO-PHP in a team for a number of projects involving real-time and highly sensitive data such
as London Stock Exchange
? Worked closely with PMs to ensure that our client’s expectations were realistic and that projects were
delivered to the client’s utmost satisfaction.

PHP Developer, Sports Shoes Ltd
Bradford UK
April 2014 – Sept 2014
? Re-engineered legacy E-Commerce systems to make a lot more efficient, loosely coupled and scalable
? Built a stand-alone system using an MVC framework (ZF2) that communicated with their shop using a REST
API to manage their stock and product inventory and sync stock with Amazon clone shop on a bi-daily basis.

Lead PHP Developer, Creative Emporium Ltd
Leeds UK
February 2013 – April 2014
? Worked on building bespoke ECommerce website for clients such as Nectar, Deloitte and Intu
? Managed and worked in a team of frontend and backend devs in collaborating to re-build their legacy
ECommerce system to make it more efficient, scalable and robust
? Ensured that projects and team were efficiently managed through the means of Jira for issue tracking and
Git for version control
? Had the sole responsibility of managing the rackspace servers and hosted projects on there.