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2025 - present

Zinc

I currently work at Zinc as a Product Engineer, helping make referencing and background checks easy, instant, and delightful through a combination of automation and smart human-driven solutions.

This is a role that expects a lot of me, but also provides me with the most freedom I've ever had as an engineer to contribute in ways that I think will help improve the product.

2024 - 2025

Croner-i

I spent around 18 months at Croner-i (now just Croner) working to provide a modern interactive experience on the web using outdated tech.

This was probably the toughest job I've ever had, but I learned a huge amount about making do with limited tech and picked a fair amount of dev-ops experience.

2021 - 2023

Menlo Security

I spent the first couple of years out of university at a secure browsing startup.

I learned a lot about the benefits of startup culture, but also a lot about what didn't work so well for me yet as a junior (in experience, not in job title) engineer.

2019 - 2020

Ministry of Defence

An internship that turned out to be an immediate full-time high-pressure job working on sensitive material.

Involved jumping between very different tech stacks every few months and learning them all on the fly. Extremely educational for my career.