Hem's CV

Summary

Engineering Lead who's worked with companies the likes of NewsUK, Net-A-Porter and Sky. As a leader I have managed high-powered engineering teams, mentored senior engineers, tempered year long technical roadmaps, and established modern development processes across departments. As an engineer I have technically designed and created large scale platforms from mobile apps and web applications, provisioned and managed cloud infrastructure, and championed SRE methodologies within my teams

Leadership: Solutions Architect (solution proposals, SRE, RFCs and governance, estimates, operational documentation, development tools), Management (roadmapping, technical analysis, Agile, recruitment and training, line-management and mentoring, presenting talks and reporting)
Server-side: Distributed Computing (queues, event streaming, gRPC, HTTP, WebSocket), Cloud Computing (AWS, serverless, Kubernetes), API development (microservices, Node.js, GraphQL, serverless), Languages (Typescript, Java, Bash, Ruby)
Client-side: JavaScript (React, Next.js, Vue.js), CSS systems (atomic, BEM, JS templates, layout, animations), SPA (performance, SEO, UX, accessibility)
DevOps: Containerisation (docker, Kubernetes), Configuration and Infrastructure (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation), Monitoring (NewRelic, DataDog, CloudWatch, Kibana)
Networking & Security: Delivery and Caching (CloudFront, Akamai, Redis), Networking (VPCs, routing & DNS, ingress/egress, gateways) Authentication and security (IAM, OAuth, JWT, certs), Secret management (Vault, SSM)
Data housing: Databases (RDS, Postgres, SQL, MongoDB, Redis), Data Ops (replication, backups, remote access, encryption)

Projects and Employment

ProjectUphold, a digital wallet and global multi-asset trading platform
RoleSenior Software Engineer
Date5 months (Aug '21 - Dec '21)

Developed risk assessment services within Uphold's back-office team with features including
- Performing crypto transaction screening
- Fraud & anti-money laundering checks
- Identity verification
Collaborated with the Principal Architect to design an RFC process for the engineering department.
Lead several initiatives by YLD engineers for the client, including an onboarding program for engineers, and local development automation.

ProjectCloudmargin, a collateral management platform cloud app
RoleEngineering Team Lead
Date1+ year (Jul '20 - Jul '21)

Managed a team of 6 engineers and QAs within CloudMargin, line-managed and mentored all teammates, and reported to VP of Engineering
Hosting high-level roadmap planning and low-level technical discussions, improved commitment vs delivery from 60% to 90%, and acted as advisor to other team leads in lieu of a principal engineer.
Created several solution architecture proposals and worked with engineers and QAs through to delivery
- Rewrite backend systems for margin calls to scale effectively for an upcoming increase in clients
- UMR regulatory features
- SWIFT payment support
- Manual adjustments to daily margin calls
Created several initiatives, including an internal RFC Committee within CloudMargin, founded and lead the Developer Community, and contributed towards organising an internal hackathon.
Collaborated with the SRE team to create a self-service model for engineering teams to follow, including testing, first use, and integrating the process within external teams to my own.

ProjectAudio platform for Wireless Digital and Times Radio
RoleSenior Engineer
Date1 year (Jun '19 - Jul '20)

Senior engineer in a department of 30, responsible for infrastructure, API development and out-of-hours support, for the Wireless Audio Platform
Developed GraphQL microservices, API authentication, contract testing and integration with upstream services and data stores
Lead an initiative to establish SLAs, and wrote automation and alerting tools for our scaling strategy to meet SLOs
Provisioned and migrated kubernetes, wrote infrastructure as code provisioning compute, capacity plans, networking, database, configuration, CDN, CI, monitoring alerting tools and jumpboxes
Created solution proposals addressing scaling and cost, security, operations, architecture, and wrote API and operational documentation including runbooks
Represented engineering in high-level roadmap planning meetings with non-technical stakeholders, and subsequently working with developers responsible for implementation

ProjectThe Times, and eLife Sciences
RoleTeam Lead
Date1+ years (Dec '17 - May '19)

Consulted for NewsUK and eLife Sciences in a Tech Lead capacity.
Delivered and showcased UI components, public and private APIs, infrastructure, operational tooling and automation for all clients.
Provided Agile coaching, mentoring of software engineers, and planning and technical direction for clients.
Provided talks for London Node.js Meetup, organised by YLD.
Contributed to Pubsweet, an open source framework for building state-of-the-art publishing platforms, attended several meetups with international contributors while representing eLife Sciences.

ProjectLuxury fashion online retailer
RoleFront-End Engineer
Date1+ years (Jun '15 - Nov '16)

Developed product and listing pages for Outnet.com, as single-page apps, optimised for SEO
Created live style guide for Outnet.com, and created a framework for style guide development.
Managed delivery and development including integration across the wider organisation.
Contributed toward a CMS system for the Outnet.com homepage and campaign pages

RoleSoftware Developer
Date1+ years (Aug '13 - Jan '15)

Developed a redesigned order tracking journey for customers to track their order, cancellations, upgrades and appointments from concept to production.
Developed a redesigned online bill section of Sky, focusing on accessibility
Developed web components for the shared style guide used by the department
Helped to develop the iOS and Android Sky MyAccount app

Hem Brahmbhatt

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