Great Western Railway
Rebrand communicationsCampaign and site work for the move from First Great Western to Great Western Railway.
DEVELOPER / INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER / TECHNICAL LEAD
Products, platforms
and the awkward bits.
I've spent more than a decade building digital products and the infrastructure beneath them. I've led platform changes, cloud migrations and AI-assisted delivery. I'm happiest where the brief meets production, with enough distance to see the shape of the work and enough detail to know what needs fixing.
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SELECTED WORK
Work made with
the teams around it.
IN-HOUSE / TEAM DELIVERYThis is a list of in-house work rather than a gallery of client logos. I worked on these products as part of the teams behind them, mostly in publishing, where one platform has to support a lot of different brands.
Vita Coco
Campaign microsite + gameThe 7 Days 7 Ways event microsite and a kids' coconut shy campaign game.
BBC Good Food
2020 site rebuildInfrastructure for the 2020 site rebuild.
RadioTimes
Publishing platformPublishing platform development and operations.
New Scientist
Platform operationsApplication networking, Jenkins and AWS operations.
Gardeners' World
Full-stack developmentFull-stack development on the publishing platform.
Olive Magazine
Full-stack developmentFull-stack development on the publishing platform.
Made For Mums
InfrastructureInfrastructure for a publishing brand.
Hitched
InfrastructureInfrastructure for a publishing brand.
You and Your Wedding
InfrastructureInfrastructure for a publishing brand.
HOW I WORK
A place for
the important bits.
The brief
Start with the problem.
What is the business trying to do? What does the team need to know? I'd rather answer those before choosing a tool.The decision
Make the trade-off visible.
There is rarely a perfect answer. I write down the cost, risk and likely payoff so the team can choose.The team
Give people room to work.
Clear ownership, a useful level of challenge and help when a decision is stuck.The service
Stay for production.
A launch is not the end. I care about the alerts, the handover and whether the thing is still useful six months later.with the checks left in.
OUTSIDE THE WORK
The same eye,
elsewhere.
On the move
Take the long way.
Trains, road routes and walking through a new place. I like seeing how somewhere works before I decide what I think of it.At the table
Cook something good.
Food, friends and the satisfaction of getting the small things right.At home
Make the room work.
Interiors, woodworking and smart-home projects. Some are better finished than others.On screen