I joined Element after completing my degree, starting as the sole engineer on the Integrations team. Over time my involvement within the team grew and now I am a tech lead for the Integrations and Billing team.

Some of my achievements include:

• Architecting and developing Element One, a monthly subscription service for Matrix.
• Building several enterprise integrations from scratch for Element.
• Developing a billing system to facilitate advanced cost models, such as pay-per-active-user and pay-per-sent-message.
• Major re-architecture projects to existing integrations to allow them to scale up to millions of users.
• Leading technical conversations and architectural plans on several projects, specifically around platform authentication and software packaging.
• Responsible for the health of the platform, able to jump onto issues and organise the team around the problem rapidly.
• Started several initiatives to improve team collaboration and well-being such as improved documentation practices, drop-in sessions and workshops.

I worked at Element, then New Vector, as a part-time contractor during my final year at University.

My roles included:

• Spearheading a new project to provide a XMPP & Sametime gateway.
• Creating a migration tool to move data from Hipchat and Slack to EMS (then Modular.im, Element's SaaS hosting product).

I started working for Element, then New Vector, as an intern during the summer after completing a successful Google Summer of Code project for matrix.org.

My role included taking up maintainership of the IRC, Gitter and Slack bridge projects in both a software and operations capacity. This meant managing community contributed patches to various Matrix.org projects, as well as bug reports and helping users to get started with the projects.

BSC (Hons) Computer Science, 2:1

During my time at Portsmouth, I took an active interest in decentralised technologies and web standards. I wrote a protocol for configuration-less information sharing between peers on a network, as well as researching and writing papers on how new web standards can be used to improve the accessibility of content on the internet.