Position: CTO at Outfund

Technical systems & infrastructure architect I joined as a senior Ruby contractor and went full time as the CTO designing and implementing the greenfields architecture, interviewing candidates and organising the tech team.

Experiences

Organising the tech team Interviewing and hiring engineers, designing the async workflow as the team was in multiple time zones.
Directing the architecture I worked extensively with the product manager Alan Lin to design the platform that would allow customers to sign up and connect open banking and numerous other payment providers such as Stripe, Paypal and GoCardless, so that we could do realtime risk assesments of their business and offer competitive variable cap loans.
Designing async systems One of the primary challenges for Outfund was to integrate open banking in order to do realtime analysis of client financial data. Using a combination of OAuh and Ruby based background workers I designed and implemented the prototype and then built the team to build out based on that architecture.

Skills

  • Systems Architecture
  • Webflow
  • Gatsby
  • Slack Integration
  • Rails Development
  • Test Driven Development
  • Github
  • Heroku Platform
  • Continuous Integration
  • 3rd Party Integrations
  • Open Banking
  • Event sourcing with RailsEventStore