Experience

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK · Remote · Full-time · Current

Leighton is a consultancy, and I'm placed with IAG International Airlines Group, leading cloud-native delivery on AWS while pioneering AI-assisted engineering practices across the team.

• Design and ship serverless platforms on AWS, including Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB and S3, with infrastructure as code and CI/CD from day one.
• Champion AI-driven development with Cursor, opencode, Codex and GitHub Copilot, codifying prompt, review and evaluation workflows into the team's software development lifecycle.
• Mentor engineers on testing strategy, observability and safe, incremental delivery.

• AWS
• Lambda
• Serverless
• Terraform
• TypeScript
• CI/CD

Sheffield, UK · Remote · Full-time

Delivered cloud services for an education platform used by millions of teachers and learners.

• Built and maintained AWS services with Terraform, improving reliability and deployment velocity.
• Introduced AI pair-programming workflows that reduced boilerplate and sped up test authoring.

• AWS
• Terraform
• Node.js
• CI/CD

County Durham, UK · Remote · Full-time

Owned serverless backend services powering high-traffic internal and customer systems.

• Designed serverless services on AWS Lambda and API Gateway for resilience at scale.
• Raised engineering standards through codified review, automated testing and CI/CD pipelines.

• AWS Lambda
• API Gateway
• Serverless
• Node.js
• Cloud

Oldham, UK · Remote · Full-time

Built data-rich front ends for connected-fleet and telematics products.

• Created interactive data visualisations with Angular, dynamic SVG and CSS, driven by serverless REST APIs.
• Delivered a customer portal single-page application on AWS ECS with Cognito authentication and a live position-tracking map.

• Angular
• TypeScript
• AWS ECS
• Cognito

Oldham, UK · Full-time

• Built the customer portal single-page application hosted on AWS ECS using Cognito for authentication.
• Developed a mapping tool to track vehicle position and status in real time.

• Angular
• TypeScript
• AWS
• REST

Ewloe, UK · Full-time

Shipped serverless services and price-comparison products, including the award-winning TravelSupermarket stack.

• Created a highly scalable Vue SSR landing-page generator running on Lambda: drop a JSON file into S3 and get server-rendered static pages, with no server fleet required.
• Built a Dockerised Cypress automation suite wired into CI/CD pull request, build and deployment pipelines across multiple environments.
• Developed new services and AWS stacks with the Serverless Framework. Winner of the 2019 company hackathon.

• Vue
• SSR
• AWS Lambda
• S3
• Docker
• Cypress
• Node.js