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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- 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