Professional Experience
Jan 2024–Jul 2025	Lead Software Engineer (Senior+ Engineer), Hexaware Technologies, Berlin. Working on all services of Spark Network's Zoosk dating platform. Instructing and guiding the PHP app support team and product engineering team. Maintaining and troubleshooting systems and adding new features and improvements. Processes: Scrum, GitLab and Jira.
Sep 2020–Dec 2023	Lead Software Engineer, Spark Networks SE, Berlin. Working on the Zoosk dating platform's payment service as lead backend engineer. Focusing on credit card, iTunes, PayPal and Google Play payments. Leading refactoring to a Hexagon Design Architecture. Processes: Scrum, GitLab and Jira.
Jan 2020–July 2020	Software Entwickler (Senior), allmyhomes GmbH, Berlin. Development of REST API microservices in PHP for a company that is developing a platform that offers new build property developers branding and lead generation linked to brokers, agents with sales to end property purchasers. Working in a Domain Driven Design environment, migrating microservices from inter API calls to a CQRS Event Sourcing system. Tools and Frameworks: Laravel, PHPStan, PHP CodeSniffer, PHP Mess Detector, OpenAPI 2 (Swagger), Docker & Kubernetes. Processes: Agile / Scrum, Event Storming, Continuous Integration using git, GitLab and Jira.
Jan 2017–Jan 2019	Senior Software Engineer, Dunnhumby Germany GmbH (formerly Sociomantic Labs GmbH), Berlin. Development and maintenance of a RESTful / RPC API in PHP, serving web and mobile front-ends, within a company that offers real time bidding for online advertising solutions. Refactoring legacy code, adhering to SOLID OOP design principles, clearly identifying dependencies. Tools and Frameworks: Symfony & Laravel components, PHPStan, PHP CodeSniffer, PHP Mess Detector, GIT, GitHub, Nginx, MySQL.
Sep 2004–Mar 2014	Tools / Web / SysAdmin / Server Programmer / Lead Server Programmer, RedBedlam Ltd, Brighton, United Kingdom. Development of back-end game server code for contiguous persistent virtual world / MMO game. Featured dynamic server instances with interprocess communication and custom application layer protocol. Code refactoring, database optimising, troubleshooting bottlenecks, implementing new game mechanics, features and bug fixing. Administration and installation of on site and off site FreeBSD Unix and Debian Linux servers for RedBedlam's game servers and web servers. Game server deployment and database back up scripting. Coding revised versions of the game websites. Integration of bulletin board system and customer facing wiki into game website. Integration of key customer web services to game systems. Creation of internal game content management system for controlling the flow of artwork assets and configuring the game object hierarchy and assets. Authoring scripts to manipulate game data and improve work flow. Languages: PHP, C#, Bash & MySQL. Technologies: Apache 2, MySQL,PostgreSQL, Mono, Java Tomcat, GIT repositories, company email services, Davical, MediaWiki.
	Education
Oct 2000-Jun 2003	BSc Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Sussex, United Kingdom.
Sep 1994-Jun1997	BTEC National Diploma in Popular Music, BTEC First Diploma in Performing Arts, Chichester College of Arts, Science & Technology, United Kingdom.
Sep 1992-Jun 1994	BTEC National Diploma in Computer Studies, Eastbourne College of Arts & Technology, United Kingdom.
	Language Skills
English	Native Speaker	Comprehensive native level of understanding.
German	B1	Rating: Good.