Hi! I'm an engineering leader and Venture CTO at BCG Digital Ventures where I focus on building high-performing teams who create quality, maintainable products. I have 12+ years of experience building cloud-based distributed systems in several different languages and technologies; across a range of industries such as geospatial, eCommerce, digital media, and finance. Previously at ThoughtWorks, 7digital, and Driftrock.

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Enabling change on the 7digital Catalogue

August 26, 2014

Since February 2014 I’ve been working on the Content Discovery Team here at 7digital, we are responsible for every endpoint listed under Catalogue API here - http://developer.7digital.com/resources/api-docs/catalogue-api – and probably a few more. This is a mix of discovery endpoints and core catalogue endpoints often split by artist, albums (releases) and tracks. The discovery side of it consists of searching, recommendations, charts, genres, new and popular tracks and albums. The core catalogue endpoints are requests to the API for an album, tracks on an album, an artist, an artist’s releases or just track information using a 7digital unique identifier (referred to as releaseId, trackId and artistId)...

Ten deploys a day and still moving slowly

July 21, 2013

There’s a feeling within my team at 7digital that we’re taking a long time to complete projects or features. Oddly this isn’t something we are currently measuring. We do though measure the throughput and cycle time of tasks. Tasks are items of work which the team create as a small iterative step towards a larger feature or story. This is useful for visualising the teams productivity, with the idealistic target of low cycle time and high throughput...

The Lean Startup - Notes

June 17, 2013

Finally I got round to reading Eric Ries’ well known book - the Lean Startup. This book often creeps into conversations and conferences so I was keen to see what was in there rather than relying on other’s insights. From a developer point of view, it’s a fairly business-ey read as you might expect but there’s some great stuff in there and lots (and lots!) of examples from the technology industry as well as more traditional industries...

Programming is a bit like football, isn't it?

May 19, 2013

The title of this blog post makes is purposefully tongue-in-cheek, let me attempt to explain. As a kid football was everything, I played a ridiculous amount. Lunchtime and after school kickabouts, perhaps training twice a week and then two matches at the weekend. It was great and academia was not so great. I was a pretty average student – not the worst, definitely not the best and certainly not interested. So naturally I grew up and became a Software Developer...