Hey, I'm Oli 👋
user-centric and product-focused software engineer
Nice to meet you. I'm a passionate, user-centric, product-focused software engineer specialised in frontend development.
I'm currently working at Pleo as a senior Frontend Engineer, building nice frontends and user experiences.
I take pride in building end-to-end solutions through close collaboration with product and users, with a strong focus on user experience and functionality.
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These are not exhaustive lists, but give an idea of my profile.
Frontend
Backend
DevOps
Experience
Senior Frontend Developer
Pleo
2025 - Present
Manchester, UK
I am currently building nice frontends and user experiences in Pleo.
Lead Frontend Developer
Adevinta
2019 - 2025
Barcelona, Spain
I led the frontend initiative to evolve and build the in-house built experimentation platform and libraries used across European marketplaces with millions of users.
In addition, I worked across a large tech stack with a focus on React, Typescript, Vite, NodeJS and Golang, and helping and mentoring fellow developers.
Web Developer
Discerning Digital
2017 - 2019
Manchester, UK
I worked on a variety of projects from small brochure sites to large scale web applications. Furthermore, I managed the hosting infrastructure for the company and implemented continuous deployment and testing pipelines.
Head of Disaster Recovery
UKFast
2015 - 2017
Manchester, UK
Moving from the Senior Windows team to take lead of the Disaster Recovery team, I was responsible for the design and implementation of the disaster recovery solutions for the company's enterprise clients, as well as architecting and scaling the backup infrastructure to handle petabytes of data distributed across multiple datacenters. I also managed the team and the day to day operations of the department.
Windows Server Engineer
UKFast
2013 - 2015
Manchester, UK
My day to day duties consisted of supporting customers via phone or ticket system for their solutions hosted with UK Fast. This included (but was not limited to) support with Windows 2008/2012, Active Directory, Exchange, IIS, VMWare, Hyper-V, MSSQL and basic support on CentOS, Red Hat and Ubuntu servers.
Within a few months I was then promoted to a Senior Windows Engineer, which involved supporting customers of a higher tier with more complex solutions such as clusters, DAGs, MSSQL High Availability and multi node Exchange environments.