Professional Journey
A career defined by leadership, frontend architecture, and technical evolution.
Senior Software Engineer (Current Role)
Apr 2026 — PRESENTHoliday Extras
- Pioneered Claude Code adoption across the business.
- Developing AI-first workflows to migrate a legacy monolith frontend to a modern framework.
- Built and maintain an AI skills marketplace for use across the engineering team.
- Contributed to a platform to enable AI innovation for non-technical staff.
- Built the frontend for our AI chat/tools for end users.
- Build a markdown-to-react pipeline to enable rapid product innovation.
Software Engineer II
Oct 2023 — Mar 2026Holiday Extras
- Leading feature development and collaborating across teams for impactful improvements.
- Worked on Trips - helping increase items booked per trip and increasing trip search completion by 30%.
- Improved trip-creation form session-to-search rates by over 50%.
- Pair programming and mentoring engineers while implementing new products in Trips API (GraphQL).
Apprentice Software Engineer
Feb 2022 — Jul 2023Holiday Extras
- Completed Makers Academy apprenticeship in Ruby, Javascript, and web development.
- Achieved Distinction in software engineering apprenticeship.
Multimedia Lead
Apr 2015 — Feb 2022Holiday Extras
- Managed a team of 11 for all video/photo production, overseeing line management, recruitment, budgeting, and content strategy.
- Launched a top-performing YouTube channel and grew organic Facebook audiences with video content.
- Produced multiple videos achieving over 1 million organic views and #1 search ranks for key travel terms.
- Led international shoots across four continents, utilizing a CAA drone license for aerial filming.
Multimedia Editor
Oct 2011 — Apr 2015Holiday Extras
- Founded and scaled the in-house video and photography production team, including mentoring and recruitment.