I run the Engineering Productivity team at FanDuel. Our work involves training, introducing tooling, and occasionally intervening to improve our engineers' productivity.

Our big piece of work in 2021 was allowing all Engineers to have their own private development environment available within 3 seconds.

Part of the responsibility is organising a Friday demo for over 100 Engineers, with external and internal speakers coming in to speak on topics like Kubernetes, CodeScene and Tech Leadership.

Working across multiple teams to help improve their technical practices and ability to deliver in a new service-aligned environment.

Each team provides its own context and challenges, but general improvements were training on how to expertly pair and mob program. These improvements had the effect of breaking down knowledge silos and quickly creating team consensus on how to work together.

From a process perspective, I trained teams on how to make accurate predictions for delivery without the need to estimate any tasks by using Monte Carlo simulation and data they already had.

I worked on security controls to maintain criminal records data in the cloud and the search engine to identify candidates to known persons. Given the complex domain, I introduced example mapping and making work visible to help the team deliver with a shared understanding and without rework.

Joined the point of sale team and introduced mob programming and microservices to deal with a monolithic legacy codebase. This allowed the team to meet their two most significant targets that year and allow for other teams to pick up work.

Focussed on relentlessly making it safer for people to do work. Improved communication between an ops and dev team to the point where the operations team moved from distrust to suggesting a move to continuous deployment.

Replaced a heritage monolithic Java 1.4 application with a Clojure & Java 8 Microservices platform.

Worked as a tech lead, creating a new platform. There was a focus on enabling the current staff and improving the UX of the new system.

As part of a learning culture, I trained people on regular expressions, build automation, Java 8 Lambdas and the Z Shell.

Worked as a contractor at Emergn, Emerge Adapt & the Scottish Government from 2012 to 2014

Developed an SOA application to provide client data to other consumer and provider systems backed by a distributed cache. This project reduced the cost of integration while improving the availability of client data.

Used Continuous Delivery practices to automate the release process of a vendor system allowing the whole group to perform releases in minutes rather than days.

Drove a firm-wide initiative for improving code quality and developer tooling. This led to improved testing practices and reduced licence costs across the firm.

Drove adoption of XP based agile practices like CI, TDD and Pair programming across different lines of business.