About me

Profile/Experience:

- Highly capable head/principal architect with 10 years' experience in role

- Extensive e-commerce and fintech experience, including payment solutions

- Worked at start-ups and mature organisations

- Communicates at all levels from senior management to developers

- Leading multiple agile/scrum teams and solution architects

- Keen commercial awareness, prioritises business value

- Employs technology to support business objectives

- Rock solid engineering skills and excellent all round technical ability

- Deep, practical experience working at scale with high volume business transactions

- Full SDLC experience including operational support of a complete platform

- Skilled in designing, building and supporting internet facing, mission critical systems

Skills:

- Patterns: API-first platforms, micro-services, SOA, event driven architecture, messaging, REST, scalability, high volume, CQRS, event sourcing, eventual consistency & Brewer's CAP Theorem

- Tech: .NET, Windows Azure, SQL Server, MongoDB

Personality

- Self-starter, highly driven, strong work ethic, makes an impact, gets stuff done

- Strategic thinker

- Relentless focus on delivery

- Creative, passionate, enthusiastic

Please view the "Experience report from ASOS's Principal Architect for e-Commerce" recording (see below) for an insight into skills, thinking on architecture and what has been achieved at ASOS.