Experience

Leading backend architecture and delivery for UK fintech platforms, with ownership across API contracts, microservice boundaries, RPA orchestration, scalability, security fixes, and post-release reliability.

• Owned backend architecture across 3+ simultaneous UK fintech client projects, defining service boundaries, API contracts, data flows, and failure-handling strategies.
• Served as technical lead for Step One Finance, coordinating frontend, backend, mobile, DevOps, and QA workstreams across 3 organizations through UAT and production launch.
• Designed a secure mobile-to-RPA automation pipeline for Monmouthshire Building Society, enabling 10,000+ customers to onboard at launch with zero critical post-release incidents.
• Implemented Redis caching, latency optimization, and high-throughput API patterns to keep key financial flows responsive under peak traffic.
• Directed penetration testing remediation cycles and resolved critical/high-severity findings before go-live across multiple client environments.

Built core banking API layers and RPA integrations for customer-facing fintech platforms and internal operational tooling.

• Built the complete core banking REST API layer for Bath Building Society, powering mobile app, online portal, and internal admin tools.
• Covered account creation, account management, fund transfers, statement generation, and other critical customer banking workflows.
• Engineered RPA integrations between modern application layers and isolated legacy banking systems with no native API access.
• Partnered with mobile and web teams to define API contracts around real consumption patterns, reducing integration defects before testing cycles.

Delivered REST APIs and full-stack features for client-facing web applications across the full software development lifecycle.

• Built and maintained RESTful APIs and full-stack features using Java and Angular for 3+ client-facing web applications.
• Supported production deployments, performed code reviews, and contributed to backend service reliability and code quality standards.