Kraken Technologies
2025–present
Performance
Lazy pagination at scale
Replaced full-table counts and added filter indexes, eliminating timeouts on a view spanning approximately 26 million records.
The work between the stops
Contribution archive.
Engineering, teaching and the things on the side. Grouped into initiatives, with a story behind each one.
14 contributions
Reset filtersYears refer to the project or role period. These summaries draw on my CV and published recipes; private PRs and client data are not reproduced.
Kraken Technologies
2025–present
Performance
Recovering production storage
Safely removed 11 redundant PostgreSQL indexes across two estates, reclaiming approximately 1.43 TB.
Kraken Technologies
2025–present
Data integrity
Validate before submission
Blocked approximately 483,000 invalid updates per month across two enterprise clients.
Kraken Technologies
2025–present
Data integrity
Repairing migration data
Corrected overlapping meter dates, preserved required fields and built bulk repair tooling with dry-run support.
Kraken Technologies
2025–present
Reliability
Missing-timestamp handling
Fixed a validation defect responsible for 3.7 million application errors, adding regression tests and diagnostic logging.
Kraken Technologies
2025–present
Authentication
Multi-tenant authentication
Implemented and tested SSO for two organisations using OIDC, Okta and django-allauth with email-domain routing.
VirtualSpeech
Nov 2024–Sep 2025
APIs
APIs for immersive roleplay
Developed Python and Django REST APIs with VR developers for AI-driven roleplay.
VirtualSpeech
Nov 2024–Sep 2025
APIs
Documents into scenarios
Built file ingestion and processing, with JavaScript, HTML and CSS frontend features.
VirtualSpeech
Nov 2024–Sep 2025
CoLab Exeter
Sep 2023–Sep 2024
Leadership
Delivering connected care
Led a team of six, translated charity requirements into features, and deployed the Django application on Google Cloud.
CoLab Exeter
Sep 2023–Sep 2024
Cloud migration
A move without interruption
Migrated the application from Google Cloud to DigitalOcean with zero downtime.
Manchester City FC
Jun–Aug 2023
Visualisation
Football in three dimensions
Built an internal Python and Three.js tool and demonstrated it at the Etihad Stadium.
Exeter Entrepreneurs
Sep–Dec 2022
Teaching
A first step with Python
Designed and taught a ten-week fundamentals course for university students.
A personal collection
An ongoing interest
Personal project
Recipes to cook from
A searchable collection of recipe flow tables with a print-friendly view.