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GRI UK / DePoel · Staffing & platform engineering

The delivery foundations for a national staffing portal.

Full-stack and platform engineering for a staffing portal serving Asda, Royal Mail and Sainsbury’s, with architectural guidance across teams.

Principal EngineerJune 2016 to December 2017
01

The challenge

  • Teams needed reliable delivery tooling and a clear approach to integrating their work.
  • The staffing platform served large retail and logistics operations with ongoing availability requirements.
02

What I built and led

  • Delivered full-stack software using Angular and Go on Linux and nginx.
  • Established the DevOps toolchain, containerised services and introduced CI/CD.
  • Provided architectural guidance for cross-team integration and implemented observability and SLA dashboards.
03

What changed

  • The engineering team gained a repeatable delivery toolchain and better production visibility.
  • Full-stack and platform improvements supported a staffing portal used by major retail and logistics organisations.