Professional Journey

A career defined by leadership, frontend architecture, and technical evolution.

  1. Senior Software Engineer (Current Role)

    Apr 2026 — PRESENT

    Holiday 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.
  2. Software Engineer II

    Oct 2023 — Mar 2026

    Holiday 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).
  3. Apprentice Software Engineer

    Feb 2022 — Jul 2023

    Holiday Extras

    • Completed Makers Academy apprenticeship in Ruby, Javascript, and web development.
    • Achieved Distinction in software engineering apprenticeship.
  4. Multimedia Lead

    Apr 2015 — Feb 2022

    Holiday 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.
  5. Multimedia Editor

    Oct 2011 — Apr 2015

    Holiday Extras

    • Founded and scaled the in-house video and photography production team, including mentoring and recruitment.