High Scale
An app is no good if no-one can see it. Scaling is at the heart of everything I do, from ensuring code is fast and light, to designing cost-effective infrastructure to handle millions of requests per day.
Principal Web Developer & Tech Lead - BBC iPlayer Radio
2012 - 2017
Leading the team both in terms of software development and line management, my main achievement was the design and implementation of the next-gen PHP platform for iPlayer Radio; from the RPM build tools to package the app through to leading the development of client libraries and application paradigms. The resulting composition based architecture scaled to over a million requests a day on minimal hardware (~ 5 instances total)
Web Developer - Wallpaper.com (Time Inc)
2011 - 2012
Developer for Wallpaper.com, an international website handling around 5.5 million page views a month. Based on Zend Framework, CodeIgniter and Akamai, with a MySQL database backend. Also created Wallpaper.cn a Chinese variant of the site requiring substantial refactoring to support multi-language content from CMS through to frontend.