Software development
Writing the services, tools, and integrations that hold an automation estate together.
- Python
- Go
- SQL
- Shell
- TypeScript
- REST APIs
- GraphQL
Résumé
Where I’ve worked and what I’ve built.
Close to twenty years building test platforms, CI pipelines, and developer tools. I come at quality as a software engineer, and lately a good part of my time goes into working out where AI genuinely helps.
Résumé
Roles, dates, employers, and selected projects, as a PDF.
Career
Twenty-five years, converging on the part I like most.
Writing software, and building the systems that prove it works. Dates and employers here; the résumé above has the achievements.
- 2026 to now
Independent engineering and applied AI
Building a booking platform end to end, and working out where AI earns a place in engineering practice and where it does not.
- 2019 to 2026
Staff Quality Test Developer
Lightspeed Commerce
Automation architecture across several commerce products, AWS test infrastructure, and the long work of making CI feedback worth reading.
- 2015 to 2019
QA Technical Lead
X2O Media
Led a five-person team across web, mobile, desktop, and digital signage. Introduced API testing and moved regression feedback into CI.
- 2011 to 2015
Software Test Specialist
BlackBerry
Owned regression quality for calendar and personal information management, from release validation through performance testing.
- 2000 to 2011
Systems, support, and quality leadership
GlobalLogic, Hoffmann-La Roche, Unitel
Started in systems engineering and IT, moved into development, then into leading a QA team.
Core capabilities
Software engineering, quality systems, and technical leadership.
Quality engineering
Getting trustworthy evidence out of every layer of a product.
- PyTest
- Playwright
- Selenium
- API testing
- Integration testing
- System testing
- Regression architecture
- Risk-based strategy
Infrastructure & delivery
Putting feedback where engineers will actually see it.
- Docker
- AWS
- GitHub Actions
- CircleCI
- Jenkins
- CI/CD
- Linux
- Cloud test infrastructure
Data & backend systems
Turning raw execution data into something you can query.
- PostgreSQL
- Relational data
- API services
- Test reporting
- Analytics
- Structured test data
Applied AI
Judging models and workflows on privacy, cost, and whether the output can be checked.
- LLM-assisted development
- Local models
- Prompt design
- Structured outputs
- Model evaluation
- Context management
- Quantization
- Human-in-the-loop
Leadership
Better systems, and a team that understands why they’re better.
- Technical design
- Mentoring
- Code reviews
- Architecture reviews
- Quality strategy
- Risk analysis
- Cross-team collaboration
- Engineering standards