I come from Scotland, I'm gay, and I live in Milan in Italy.

I'm a Senior Staff Engineer for Klarna.

My achievements here aren't going on a public page, but I'm happy and enthusiastic to be part of a European-built household tech company, working on a public-facing product as I like. I'm a team lead and full-stack engineer on TypeScript, with additional architectural opportunities.

I moved to Italy as a Software Engineer and grew to become a Staff Software Engineer at Subito.it, an online marketplace—the biggest in Italy and a part of Adevinta—in the frontend: strong not just on JS but HTML and CSS from a career I started over a decade ago as an apprentice.

I worked on rebuilding the application of the listing and detail pages, and rolling out a rebrand of the site in my first year, enhancing web performance both as a tactical focus and as part of business as usual, developing various search features and running A/B tests to improve the UI and the overall product's performance.

Over time I took on an enabling and coordinating role: working with my colleagues to boost their delivery, harmonise, evolve and maintain standards and resolve technical problems that had an impact across teams.

That developed into a platform-team position in a Staff role, and as Staff Frontend Engineer in the team of Core Engineering.

I have quite a bit of experience conducting technical interviews, starting from experience at the BBC, and I was able to refine it in Subito over a number of rounds of hiring. I enjoy interviewing, and try both to make sure that we get the information that we need about the candidate and that the candidate has a positive experience.

I try to write TS that's more than mediocre with a focus on a maximal use of the language to get more runtime guarantees from the code.

I refreshed the pure Node.js side and obtained the Node.js Services and Application developer certificates from the OpenJS Foundation, part of the Linux Foundation.

I'm a native speaker, with a Scottish accent.

I'm a fluent and daily speaker of Italian and am certified to C1.