I build the systems small organisations actually run on.

Roles

1. March 2024 – presentFoundingCurrent

   Founding Engineer

   A UK supplementary-school network · Weekend school network, five London branches

   Sole engineer on the internal platform the school network runs its operations on.

   • Designed and built the staff platform five branches use for registration, class allocation, student and guardian records, and attendance — product decisions and code both, as the only engineer.
   • Modelled the domain so invalid states cannot be written: one active class per student, one active teacher per class, one attendance session per class per day, one primary guardian per student — enforced by Postgres constraints rather than application checks.
   • Enforced branch isolation server-side. The selected branch lives in an httpOnly cookie and is re-validated against the user’s live assignments on every request, so no reader or writer can reach another branch’s data by tampering with the client.
   • Replaced paper registers and spreadsheets scattered across five sites with one system, and wrote the decision log and domain rules the build is held to.
   • Next.js (App Router)
   • React
   • TypeScript
   • PostgreSQL (Neon)
   • Drizzle ORM
   • Auth.js
   • Tailwind CSS
   • Vercel
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2. April – June 2025Contract

   Software Engineer (Contract)

   AI startup · AI tooling for public-sector clients

   Three-month contract building AI-backed tooling for public-sector clients.

   • Built full-stack features in Next.js and TypeScript, including the custom UI components the product was assembled from.
   • Shipped LLM pipelines that took structured input, ran it through the model, and rendered predictable output on the frontend — the plumbing and failure handling around the call, not just the prompt.
   • Automated go-to-market outreach workflows with scripting, taking repeated manual steps off the commercial team.
   • Next.js
   • TypeScript
   • LLM APIs
   • Node.js

3. May – December 2024Full-time

   Software Engineer

   Unilever

   Owned delivery across a global web estate of 30+ sites in an Agile squad.

   • Ran a global 30-site web estate on Next.js and TypeScript, shipping UI features into production on a squad cadence.
   • Authored the WCAG-based web accessibility standards other teams built against — then made them enforceable with Cypress, axe-core and Lighthouse checks, so an accessibility regression failed the pipeline instead of reaching a user.
   • Replaced manual release steps with GitHub Actions CI/CD: linting, tests and zero-touch deployment.
   • Built backend services on Azure Function Apps and CosmosDB to capture performance metrics across the estate.
   • Translated stack decisions into roadmaps non-technical stakeholders could act on — the reason the accessibility standards got adopted rather than filed.
   • Next.js
   • TypeScript
   • React
   • Azure Functions
   • CosmosDB
   • GitHub Actions
   • Cypress
   • axe-core
   • Lighthouse

4. September 2022 – May 2024Apprenticeship

   Software Engineering Apprentice

   Unilever

   Level 4 apprenticeship completed alongside full delivery work on internal tooling.

   • Built and maintained frontend components in TypeScript, React and Vue across several internal tools.
   • Wrote backend services with Node.js, Azure Function Apps and CosmosDB.
   • Wrote and ran the functional and accessibility test suites — Cypress, axe-core, Lighthouse — that became the groundwork for the standards I later authored.
   • Learned delivery end to end working alongside designers, PMs and senior engineers, and converted into an engineer role on the same estate.
   • TypeScript
   • React
   • Vue
   • Node.js
   • Azure Functions
   • CosmosDB
   • Cypress

5. 2018 – 2022Part-time

   Arabic Language Tutor

   Al-Furqaan Institute

   Four years teaching Arabic to mixed-ability classes before moving into engineering — and the reason I understood weekend-school operations well enough to be the one who built the platform for them.

Education

• In progress

  BSc Computing & Information Technologies

  Completing June 2026

• Completed

  Level 4 Software Engineer Apprenticeship (HNC)

  Unilever · Completed May 2024

  Completed alongside production delivery work, not in place of it.

Skills

• Languages

  TypeScript first, and SQL rather than an ORM’s opinion of SQL.

  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • SQL
  • HTML
  • CSS

• Frameworks & UI

  Next.js App Router day to day; Vue where the estate already used it.

  • Next.js (App Router)
  • React
  • Vue
  • Node.js
  • Express
  • Tailwind CSS

• Data & infrastructure

  Relational by default. Constraints in the database, not just in the handler.

  • PostgreSQL
  • Drizzle ORM
  • Neon
  • Supabase (Postgres, Auth, RLS)
  • Prisma
  • Azure Function Apps
  • CosmosDB
  • Firebase
  • Vercel
  • GitHub Actions

• AI systems

  Model calls treated as an unreliable dependency: schema-validated output, deterministic post-processing, graceful failure.

  • OpenAI API
  • Vercel AI SDK
  • Structured output with Zod schemas
  • Prompt design & evaluation
  • LLM pipeline design

• Practice

  The parts that decide whether any of the above survives contact with users.

  • Accessibility (WCAG, axe-core, Lighthouse)
  • Testing (Cypress, functional & a11y suites)
  • CI/CD pipeline design
  • Authentication & server-side authorisation
  • Domain & data modelling
  • Agile delivery
  • Technical writing & decision logs