@prefix cv: . @prefix cvbase: . @prefix rdfs: . @prefix owl: . @prefix dc: . @prefix dcterms: . @prefix foaf: . a cv:CV ; cv:aboutPerson ; cv:cvTitle "Curriculum Vitae" ; cv:cvDescription """ Principal-level software engineer with 21+ years experience in backend, platform engineering, technical leadership, distributed systems, DevOps and software delivery. I specialise in building high-throughput APIs, platform capabilities and delivery systems that help teams ship safely with less cognitive load. Strong Java and Python background, with experience across CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, data pipelines, search, AI/ML and developer enablement. I bring a platform-as-product mindset: standardising where it creates leverage, improving DevEx, and aligning technical choices with business outcomes. """; # Skills cv:hasSkill [ cv:skillName "Solr" ; cv:skillLevel 4 ], [ cv:skillName "Elasticsearch" ; cv:skillLevel 5 ], [ cv:skillName "Search Relevance Tuning" ; cv:skillLevel 5 ], [ cv:skillName "Search (TF-IDF, BM25, HNSW)" ; cv:skillLevel 5 ], [ cv:skillName "Lucene" ; cv:skillLevel 4 ], [ cv:skillName "Information Theory" ; cv:skillLevel 4 ], [ cv:skillName "RDF" ; cv:skillLevel 5 ], [ cv:skillName "Linked Data" ; cv:skillLevel 5 ], [ cv:skillName "TDD" ; cv:skillLevel 5 ], [ cv:skillName "BDD" ; cv:skillLevel 5 ], [ cv:skillName "Agile" ; cv:skillLevel 5 ], [ cv:skillName "DevOps" ; cv:skillLevel 5 ], [ cv:skillName "Continuous Delivery" ; cv:skillLevel 5 ], [ cv:skillName "Kanban" ; cv:skillLevel 5 ], [ cv:skillName "Python" ; cv:skillLevel 5 ; rdfs:seeAlso ], [ cv:skillName "UML" ; cv:skillLevel 5 ], [ cv:skillName "AWS" ; cv:skillLevel 5 ], [ cv:skillName "AWS Lambda" ; cv:skillLevel 5 ], [ cv:skillName "AWS Glue" ; cv:skillLevel 4 ], [ cv:skillName "Terraform/OpenTofu" ; cv:skillLevel 5 ], [ cv:skillName "Terragrunt" ; cv:skillLevel 4 ], [ cv:skillName "Kafka" ; cv:skillLevel 3 ], [ cv:skillName "Node.js" ; cv:skillLevel 4 ], [ cv:skillName "Java" ; cv:skillLevel 5 ; rdfs:seeAlso ], [ cv:skillName "Spring Boot" ; cv:skillLevel 5 ], [ cv:skillName "Quarkus" ; cv:skillLevel 5 ], [ cv:skillName "Docker" ; cv:skillLevel 4 ], [ cv:skillName "Kubernetes" ; cv:skillLevel 4 ], [ cv:skillName "Helm" ; cv:skillLevel 4 ], [ cv:skillName "LaTeX" ; cv:skillLevel 4 ], [ cv:skillName "Linux" ; cv:skillLevel 4 ], [ cv:skillName "Cucumber" ; cv:skillLevel 5 ], [ cv:skillName "PostgreSQL" ; cv:skillLevel 4 ], [ cv:skillName "SQL" ; cv:skillLevel 5 ], [ cv:skillName "Django" ; cv:skillLevel 4 ], [ cv:skillName "Federated Authentication" ; cv:skillLevel 4 ], [ cv:skillName "Flask/Quart" ; cv:skillLevel 5 ], [ cv:skillName "FastAPI" ; cv:skillLevel 5 ], [ cv:skillName "Git" ; cv:skillLevel 5 ], [ cv:skillName "Soft Systems Methodology" ; cv:skillLevel 3 ], [ cv:skillName "SPARQL" ; cv:skillLevel 4 ], [ cv:skillName "Jupyter" ; cv:skillLevel 4 ], [ cv:skillName "Redis" ; cv:skillLevel 3 ], [ cv:skillName "Apache Spark" ; cv:skillLevel 4 ], [ cv:skillName "RabbitMQ" ; cv:skillLevel 4 ], [ cv:skillName "ActiveMQ" ; cv:skillLevel 3 ], [ cv:skillName "TypeScript" ; cv:skillLevel 3 ], [ cv:skillName "Prolog" ; cv:skillLevel 3 ; rdfs:seeAlso ], [ cv:skillName "GCP" ; cv:skillLevel 4 ], [ cv:skillName "BigQuery" ; cv:skillLevel 4 ], [ cv:skillName "Scaleway" ; cv:skillLevel 3 ], [ cv:skillName "Clojure" ; cv:skillLevel 2 ], [ cv:skillName "Grafana" ; cv:skillLevel 2 ], [ cv:skillName "MongoDB" ; cv:skillLevel 4 ], [ cv:skillName "Haskell" ; cv:skillLevel 3 ], [ cv:skillName "Langchain" ; cv:skillLevel 4 ], [ cv:skillName "Ollama" ; cv:skillLevel 4 ], [ cv:skillName "LLMs" ; cv:skillLevel 4 ], [ cv:skillName "Agentic AI" ; cv:skillLevel 4 ] ; # Employment History cv:hasWorkHistory _:job-roku, _:job-bridgeu, _:job-inrix, _:job-bbc-principal, _:job-bbc-senior, _:job-bbc-contract, _:job-cranfield, _:job-timlilley, _:job-transversal, _:job-level5 ; cv:hasEducation _:msc, _:ma ; cv:hasOtherInfo [ a cv:OtherInfo ; cv:otherInfoType cvbase:Interests ; cv:otherInfoDescription "Traditional music including playing Bodhrán and Tin Whistle" ], [ a cv:OtherInfo ; cv:otherInfoType cvbase:Interests ; cv:otherInfoDescription "Wine (WSET 2 qualified), Real Ale (CAMRA member)" ], [ a cv:OtherInfo ; cv:otherInfoType cvbase:Interests ; cv:otherInfoDescription "Computer Science, Category Theory, Pure Mathematics, Philosophy" ], [ a cv:OtherInfo ; cv:otherInfoType cvbase:Publications ; cv:otherInfoDescription "Fenning, R., Dogan, H., Phalp, K. (2014). Applicability of SSM and UML for Designing a Search Application for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)." ] . _:job-roku a cv:WorkHistory ; cv:employedIn _:roku ; cv:startDate "2026" ; cv:isCurrent cvbase:True ; cv:jobTitle "Senior Software Engineer" ; cv:jobDescription """ Joined team building back office finance systems in Java and Python (Airflow) Led on strategy for sharing finance data for analytics purposes Contributed to improving DevOps and Continuous Delivery capabilities for Agentic AI development Championed unifying team's approach to Terraform and infrastructure """ . _:job-bridgeu a cv:WorkHistory ; cv:employedIn _:bridgeu ; cv:startDate "2024" ; cv:endDate "2025" ; cv:isCurrent cvbase:False ; cv:jobTitle "Staff Software Engineer" ; cv:jobDescription """ Hired initially to lead Backend Chapter and drive through a "Tech Transformation" strategy to break a Ruby monolith into Python FastAPI services for a new Svelte app. Worked with management to prove improvements in velocity and continuous delivery due to transformed architectures. Tech: Python (FastAPI), TypeScript (Svelte), PostgreSQL, DocumentDB, data pipelines, Ruby (Rails). Introduced embedded search (Lucene and Whoosh) in APIs suitable for small data use cases, e.g. university search that factors in user preferences, academic strength and marketing requirements. Departure of other Staff Engineers made me de facto lead on Platform Engineering, DevOps and Data Engineering as well as Backend and Architectural Lead. Led a transition from a Spotify-style "chapter" model for disciplines to a "guild" model to encourage collective decision-making and empower engineers to shape architecture and technical choices. """ . _:job-inrix a cv:WorkHistory ; cv:employedIn _:inrix ; cv:startDate "2022" ; cv:endDate "2024" ; cv:isCurrent cvbase:False ; cv:jobTitle "Lead Software Engineer" ; cv:jobDescription """ Lead role across 2 teams distributed between Manchester, UK and Kirkland, USA (8 reports). Built a standard Java service deployment platform using Kubernetes/EKS, Helm, Terraform, Quarkus and GitHub Actions. Mentored engineers on Continuous Delivery, infrastructure as code and DevOps practices. Built event-driven traffic alerting using Kafka, Elasticsearch (around 1 billion data points), RabbitMQ and Reactive Java (Quarkus). Contributed to a company-wide AI project feeding data into LLMs. Innovated Python project for applying BDD to AI apps with local LLMs for testing. """ . _:job-bbc-principal a cv:WorkHistory ; cv:employedIn _:bbcnorth ; cv:startDate "2015" ; cv:endDate "2022" ; cv:isCurrent cvbase:False ; cv:jobTitle "Principal Software Engineer" ; cv:jobDescription """ Principal technical leader for Node.js and Spring Boot API platforms used across the BBC website: 50+ internal clients, up to 15k requests/sec. Continued to work on Search technologies with broadening into analytics and micro-frontends. Mentoring and leading on projects to promote knowledge sharing across up to 4 teams of engineers. Drove architecture and data modelling for a unified approach to website analytics collection. Developed lightweight feature flag mechanisms for previewing large-scale branding changes. Drove unified CD/deployment approach across 30+ services and 4 teams using Jenkins, Python tooling and Elasticsearch metrics. Built Python tooling for deployment automation, common infrastructure patterns and testing, reducing friction for teams operating shared service platforms. """ . _:job-bbc-senior a cv:WorkHistory ; cv:employedIn _:bbcnorth ; cv:startDate "2012" ; cv:endDate "2015" ; cv:isCurrent cvbase:False ; cv:jobTitle "Senior Software Engineer" ; cv:jobDescription """ Primarily working on Search product with Solr, some bespoke APIs and some low-level Lucene. Developed event-driven data pipelines with Java (Jersey), Apache Camel and ActiveMQ. Built tooling in Ruby and Cucumber to drive projects via BDD and TDD. """ . _:job-bbc-contract a cv:WorkHistory ; cv:employedIn _:bbcwales ; cv:startDate "2010" ; cv:endDate "2012" ; cv:jobTitle "Contract Software Engineer" ; cv:jobDescription """ Building data aggregation services in Java (Spring MVC) Contributed to some front end in PHP and JS on the BBC Home page. Creating geospatial BBC Weather search using Solr and PostGIS """ . _:job-cranfield a cv:WorkHistory ; cv:employedIn _:cranfield ; cv:startDate "2007" ; cv:endDate "2010" ; cv:jobTitle "Systems Developer" ; cv:jobDescription """ Building in-house Java solutions to connect various systems in the IT department. """ . _:job-timlilley a cv:WorkHistory ; cv:employedIn _:timlilley ; cv:startDate "2005" ; cv:endDate "2006" ; cv:jobTitle "Fundraiser" ; cv:jobDescription """House to house fundraiser on behalf of Amnesty International.""" . _:job-transversal a cv:WorkHistory ; cv:employedIn _:transversal ; cv:startDate "2005" ; cv:endDate "2006" ; cv:jobTitle "Tester" ; cv:jobDescription """ Manual and (Python) automation tester for a web-based software product. """ . _:job-level5 a cv:WorkHistory ; cv:employedIn _:level5 ; cv:startDate "2004" ; cv:endDate "2004" ; cv:jobTitle "Tester" ; cv:jobDescription """ Performance testing for a new Ethernet card and drivers on both Linux and Windows. Created via bash scripts an early version of what today would be called Continuous Integration. """ . _:msc a cv:Education ; cv:degreeType cvbase:EduMaster ; cv:eduMajor "MSc Software Engineering" ; cv:eduStartDate "2012" ; cv:eduGradDate "2016" ; cv:studiedIn _:bradford ; cv:eduDescription """ MSc (Distinction) in Software Engineering and Internet Architecture. Awarded by Bradford, run in conjunction with the BBC. Dissertation: Improving content discovery through combining linked data and data mining techniques """ . _:ma a cv:Education ; cv:degreeType cvbase:EduBachelor ; cv:eduMajor "MA Computer Science" ; cv:eduStartDate "2002" ; cv:eduGradDate "2005" ; cv:studiedIn _:cambridge ; cv:eduDescription """ MA (Hons) (Cantab) in Computer Science. Dissertation: Vector-based music search to generate playlists from qualitative descriptions """ . # Little bit about me with some linking to other datasets about publications, projects, etc. a cv:Person ; cv:hasNationality "British" ; cv:hasCitizenship ; owl:sameAs ; foaf:homepage ; dcterms:creator . # Just to be clear that these are interchangeable since one is used above owl:sameAs . _:roku a cv:Company ; cv:Name "Roku" . _:bridgeu a cv:Company ; cv:Name "BridgeU" . _:inrix a cv:Company ; cv:Name "INRIX" . _:bbcnorth a cv:Company ; cv:Name "BBC North" . _:bbcwales a cv:Company ; cv:Name "BBC Cymru Wales" . _:funpro a cv:Company ; cv:Name "Functional Programming Ltd." . _:cranfield a cv:Company ; cv:Name "Cranfield University" . _:timlilley a cv:Company ; cv:Name "Tim Lilley Fundraising" . _:transversal a cv:Company ; cv:Name "Transversal Corporation" . _:level5 a cv:Company ; cv:Name "Level 5 Networks" . _:bradford a cv:EducationalOrg ; cv:Name "University of Bradford" . _:cambridge a cv:EducationalOrg ; cv:Name "University of Cambridge" . # Ideally this would live in some schema somewhere, but for now we # need to declare some thing as having unique values to save faffing # with iterables in any templates. cv:startDate a owl:FunctionalProperty . cv:eduGradDate a owl:FunctionalProperty . cv:lastUpdate a owl:FunctionalProperty .