Engineer on a legal research platform, from code to release.

Sole engineer on a legal research platform for law firms, from ticket to release.

• Cut the time the app takes to open from over two minutes to about 1.6 seconds, after finding five separate causes.
• Fixed the slow lists. The cause was not the database, as assumed; once warm they load in about half a second.
• Closed several security gaps found in a backend review I started ahead of bringing more users on.
• Traced an upload failure after long idle periods to one library call, and shipped a fix with tests so a recurrence is caught.
• Built AI-written document descriptions and subject tagging on Amazon Bedrock, with a cap on the cost of each request.
• Maintain signed, notarised macOS and Windows releases through Bitbucket Pipelines.

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Graduate developer to informal team lead across client products.

• Built the screens auditors use to check financial statements read by document-parsing software, including automatic checks for figures that do not add up.
• Rebuilt the front end of an online dating platform on a modern framework, then helped add video calling and real-time chat.
• Mentored junior developers and became the main developer on Casenoter in its early stages.