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GRI UK / DePoel

Principal Engineer · June 2016 to December 2017

Built the UK’s largest temporary staffing portal for Tier-1 retail and logistics. Full-stack scope and cross-team integration role made the position a technical hub of the engineering organisation. Promoted to Principal by exit.

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GRI UK / DePoel
Tier 1 clients
Asda · Royal Mail · Sainsbury’s

Challenges

  • Tier 1 retail and logistics SLAs across the staffing platform
  • Lack of an existing DevOps tool chain limiting team shipping velocity
  • Cross-team integration burden across a fast-growing engineering organisation

What I Delivered

  • Full-stack engineering using Angular, Golang on Linux and nginx
  • Built the DevOps tool chain that unblocked team shipping velocity
  • Containerised services and introduced CI/CD pipelines from scratch
  • Acted as technical hub and reference point for cross-team integration and architectural decisions
  • Instrumented platform observability and SLA dashboards for enterprise uptime

Outcomes

  • Platform supporting the UK’s largest temp staffing operation
  • Engineering team shipping velocity unblocked via the new DevOps tool chain
  • Promoted to Principal by exit