Personal details

Oliver S. - Remote

Oliver S.

Timezone: London (UTC+1)

Summary

Building software that people enjoy using is what gets me going. With over 12 years experience I've delivered successful products for the Telecoms, Retail, Publishing, Energy and Charity sectors. I've led teams to build a wide variety of projects including realtime social platforms and project management tools, business Intelligence tools, custom content management systems, online stores and browser extensions.

Since 2004 I've been an agile practitioner, whether it's Scrum or Kanban, Lean, BDD, outside-in, pair-programming, you name it, I've been doing it for years. I've usually led from the front but I’m comfortable working in many different styles and value project consistency over personal preferences so am equally comfortable working alone or slotting into an existing team.

Work Experience

Vice President Engineering
Zapnito | Jul 2014 - Present
HTML/CSS
Ruby on Rails
PostgreSQL
Scrum
Kanban
Ember.js
Elixir
Elm
Agile
Led the development of 2 products, a CMS and a realtime social platform.
CTO / Tech lead
Lytbulb | Jun 2014 - Jul 2015
HTML/CSS
Ruby on Rails
Firebase
Kanban
Ember.js
Agile
Led the development of a trello-like project management tool focused on the Oil and Gas sector.

Personal Projects

2016
Scrum
Reactive Programming
Elixir
Elm
Phoenix Framework
A white-labelled realtime social webapp that can be embedded within 3rd party sites
Knowledge networksIconOpenNewWindows
2014
Ruby on Rails
PostgreSQL
Heroku
Redis
Continuous Integration
Ember.js
A white-labelled custom CMS focused on expert community engagement, online courses and video based group discussions