About me

20+ years of full stack development, technical leadership, solution architecture, devops, and agile project and delivery management in multiple languages and platforms, including Java, Javascript / Typescript, HTML/CSS/Web, React, and GoLang. Experienced in all things AWS, devops, and solution architecture, including Terraform, Lambda, Docker / Kubernetes, SQS / SNS, RDBMS, DocumentDB, NoSQL, Elastic Search, Neptune, Security and IAM, Networking, and many more. Also some exposure to Azure and Google Cloud. Years of experience in data modeling, harmonization, and integration, and more recently Snowflake, Data Vault 2.0, event driven architectures, message queues, and microservices, including leadership, architecture, training, evangelisation, implementations, and proof of concepts. An expert in AI rule based expert systems and linked data solutions, taxonomy development and curation, knowledgegraph and graph development, and description logic. Successful delivery of end-to-end graph and integration solutions for companies such as Pearson, TUI, Eurcamp, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Euromoney / BCA, Accuity, European Medicines Agency, IHTSDO / Snomed , Cancer Research UK, and more. Lead architect and technical lead at TUI for event based data vault 2.0 modeling and Snowflake solution, implementing asynchronous data integration of internal and external systems, including integration with Braze, as well as implementing a GDPR compliance solution. Trained and upskilled architects on event based frameworks, Snowflake, and AWS. Solution architect and technical lead for a new event based search and reservation platform for eurocamp group, implemented complex airline style dynamic availability and pricing algorithm based on linked data and datalog in RDFox, and designed an event based kappa architecture with event sourcing, including a solution for PII and GDPR compliance. Successfully introduced Accuity to Linked Data, SHACL and LDP, and provided alternative solution architecture and implementation, significantly decreasing complexity and cost, whilst massively improving platform stability and data integrity. Technical lead on key global data warehousing and data integration linked data project at Pearson Publishing. Stood up and led multiple development teams across time zones. Defined and implemented all web application and solution architectures, AWS infrastructure and devops, development strategies, and continuous delivery..