Summary
Data Engineer at KrakenFlex. Confident using Python and SQL to develop solutions for complex problems, and keen to deepen those skills further. Strong in communication and always eager to learn new skills and gain new knowledge. UK citizen living in Manchester.
Experience
Senior Data Engineer
KrakenFlex | Mar 2025 - Present
- Worked on the regionalisation of the Data Platform
Data Engineer
KrakenFlex | Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
- Mentored junior developers and ran weekly code review sessions.
Platform Engineer / Data Engineer
Cloud Technology Solutions | Sep 2020 - Aug 2023
- Implemented logging and alerting for the National Census, hosted on Google Cloud Platform.
- Worked in an agile environment using Cloud Native tooling and an IaC approach
- Orchestrated data pipelines with Airflow and BigQuery, ingesting data formats such as Parquet and CSV
- Presented visualisations built in Looker Studio to guide sales
- Led the improvement of onboarding processes, and continually improved internal documentation
- Organised social activites, including weekly football
Education
University of Manchester
MSc Advanced Computer Science | Distinction | Sep 2019 - Sep 2020
- Built upon networking principles with cryptography and cyber security
- Studied number theory and group theory and their relationship to cryptographic techniques
- Used Wolfram Mathematica to build a replica of Turing’s Bombe
- Specialised in software engineering, from design patterns to implementation and testing
- Collaborated on a project using Test Driven Development
- Built a music visualisation tool in Java for dissertation which was awarded a distinction
Manchester Metropolitan University
BSc Computer and Network Technology | 1st Class | Sep 2016 - Jul 2019
- In-depth knowledge of computer systems, from hardware to software
- Well-rounded knowledge of networking principles
- Produced wearable sports tech for third year project which was awarded a first class
Technologies and Skills
- Programming Languages (Python, Java, SQL)
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Terragrunt, CloudFormation)
- Version Control (Git, GitHub)
- Data Ingestion and Pipelines (BigQuery, Databricks, Airflow, Blob Storage)
- SIEM (Splunk)
- Cloud Computing (GCP, AWS)
- CI/CD (Google Cloud Build, AWS CodePipeline)
- Containerisation (Docker)