Red Acre Ltd.
2022 - Present
Head of Development
Scaled teams to 60+ and led a business-critical transformation to an event-driven architecture, drastically improving DORA and product metrics.
- Spearheaded a complete architectural transformation to a decoupled, event-driven microservices architecture (CQRS, Strangler Fig), resulting in an 80% reduction in infrastructure costs.
- Drove engineering excellence by automating CI/CD and implementing on-call procedures, improving Deployment Frequency (1/month to 10+/day), MTTR (3 days to <2hr), and reducing Change Failure Rate by 90%.
- Scaled and structured 6 cross-functional teams to over 60 direct/indirect reports, fostering a high-performance culture through robust mentorship, 1-on-1s, and clear performance frameworks.
- Acted as the key strategic liaison between C-Level, Product, and Infrastructure, aligning technical strategy with business goals to remove critical delivery roadblocks.
- Enhanced product stability by implementing Sentry, providing accurate visibility that reduced production errors by 90% and contributed to lower customer bounce rates.
- Architected real-time data solutions for B2B trading products and guided full-stack UI development for dashboards, AI chatbots, and admin portals.
- Trading
- Leadership
- Event-Driven Architecture
- AWS
- K8s