Position: Advisory CTO at Cape Labs

Technical systems & infrastructure architect

I joined as a part time technical advisor a few months after development had begun and took on the role of CTO designing the backend architecture and conducting multi stage interviews of candidates for the tech team.

Experiences

Organising the tech team

Interviewing and hiring engineers, designing the async workflow as the team was in multiple time zones (UK, Autralia, Indonesia). Configuring the infrastructure for contractor access.

Directing the architecture

I worked extensively with the Edo, one of the two original co founders to realise the product design from a systems perspective and then convert that into tangible work for the team.

Microservice development

Built several microservices using Express (JS) to manage outbound calls to 3rd party APIS and incoming async webhooks.

Designing and implementing the loan management system.

This involved collaborating with various team members to extend the basic architecture and integrate 3rd party API's for handling repayments.

Designing and implementing CI system in Google Cloud (Cloud Run)

Built the CI deploying Angular using Cloud Build and Cloud Run and various other Cloud Compute infrastructure challenges.

Skills

• Systems Architecture
• Google Cloud Platform
• Jira
• Webflow
• Angular 9
• Slack
• SQL Server
• Firebase
• Github
• Continuous Integration
• 3rd Party Integrations
• Open Banking
• Payments APIs