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Front-end engineer with 11 years across streaming, marketplaces, and AI products at Sky, Roku, and Property Finder, operating at technical-lead level. Owns front-end architecture, performance, and delivery end to end, and has led multi-territory platform consolidations, GraphQL/BFF layers, and production LLM features from design through launch. Promoted repeatedly into technical leadership, mentoring engineers and setting engineering standards across teams.

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Front-End Engineer @ Property Finder2025.07—----.-- · 11m
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Dubai, UAE, full-time[link]
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Growth Engineering team at Property Finder, the largest real estate marketplace in the UAE. Owning SEO, performance, and feature development for user acquisition.
$ highlights
  • 01Drive SEO optimization across the core website, cutting search page load time by 33% and achieving record share of voice in organic search. Recognized by the CEO as an exceptional result.
  • 02Lead the UGC (User-Generated Content) features, agent Q&A and property reviews, from initial design through to production: content pipeline, moderation system, and frontend display.
  • 03Coordinate SEO strategies with 5+ external stakeholders for third-party applications.
  • 04Mentor 2 junior engineers on React, TypeScript, and performance patterns.
$ stack
React · TypeScript · Web Performance · SEO · SEMrush · Node.js · Go · AWS
$ projects
→ Property Finder: Growth Engineering
Senior Front-End Engineer (Platform) @ Roku2023.02—2025.07 · 2y 5m
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Manchester, UK, full-time[link]
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Front-end engineer on Roku's web platform. Built AI-powered customer support UI and shared web frameworks consumed across 10+ device platforms.
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  • 01Technical lead for AI chatbots that reduced customer support tickets by 40% and improved satisfaction by 25%.
  • 02Architected scalable media web frameworks adopted by multiple product teams across 10+ device platforms.
  • 03Integrated LLMs (Claude, GPT-4) into production systems, achieving 95% accuracy in customer query resolution.
  • 04Mentored 3 junior developers and contributed to architectural decisions that reduced development time by 30% for new features.
$ stack
React · TypeScript · GraphQL · Web Performance · Node.js · AWS · LLMs · Python
$ projects
→ Roku AI Powered Support Chat
Front-End Engineer (Streaming Platform) @ Sky UK2018.09—2023.02 · 4y 5m
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London, UK, full-time[link]
$ summary
Front-end engineer across five streaming products (Sky GO, NOW TV, NOW, Peacock TV, Sky Showtime) on web, desktop and TV devices. Owned the BFF / GraphQL middleware where the FE consumed it directly. Progressed through three engineering levels over the tenure, promoted from SD1 to SD2 to SD3.
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  • 01Promoted twice over the tenure, advancing from SD1 to SD2 to SD3 as technical scope and leadership grew.
  • 02Technical lead on the FE side of the European consolidation that collapsed 12 territory apps into 2 unified platforms (83% less code to maintain).
  • 03Built a GraphQL/BFF layer the FE owned end-to-end, cutting API roundtrips and dropping response times by 50% at 99.9% uptime.
  • 04Shipped and maintained the front-end of 5 streaming products (Sky GO, NOW TV, NOW, Peacock TV, Sky Showtime) across web, desktop and TV devices.
$ stack
React · TypeScript · Electron · Redux · GraphQL · Apollo · Web Performance · AWS · Kubernetes · Redis
$ projects
→ Sky Go→ NOW TV / Peacock TV
Front-End Engineer (Contract) @ loveholidays2018.06—2018.08 · 2m
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London, UK, contract[link]
$ summary
Contract frontend engineer building new booking-flow features and running A/B experiments on a high-traffic travel platform.
$ highlights
  • 01Shipped 3 new booking-flow features on a platform processing 10,000+ daily transactions.
  • 02Ran Google Optimize A/B tests that lifted booking conversion 15% and cut bounce 12%.
$ stack
React · Redux · JavaScript · Google Optimize
Junior Front-End Engineer @ SCL Group2015.06—2018.05 · 2y 11m
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London, UK, full-time[link]
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Joined as a software apprentice and was promoted to junior front-end engineer. Worked on data-heavy analytics web apps, owning UI for political-data tools and CMS-driven sites, and picked up CI/CD and AWS where it unblocked FE delivery.
$ highlights
  • 01Started as a software apprentice and was promoted to junior front-end engineer as delivery responsibility grew.
  • 02Built the front-end for 8+ analytics web apps used by political-data teams; sole web developer on several flagship projects.
  • 03Led Drupal 8 migrations, modernizing legacy templating and FE delivery for content-heavy sites.
  • 04Designed the FE for the Pangea data matching platform, a UI processing 10M+ records daily with sub-second interactions.
$ stack
React · Redux · JavaScript · TypeScript · Drupal (FE templating) · Node.js · MongoDB · AWS · Kubernetes · Scala · Go
$ projects
→ Cambridge Analytica / SCL Group→ Trump Campaign 2016→ Ted Cruz Campaign 2015→ Pangea Data Platform