[
  {
    "id": "ios-dev",
    "company": "Independent Development",
    "role": "Product Engineer — iOS",
    "period": "July 2025 — Present",
    "description": "Building native iOS products end-to-end — from backend architecture and API design through to frontend UI. Full ownership across the entire stack.",
    "achievements": [
      { "bold": "Full-Stack Ownership", "text": "Designing and building complete products independently — backend, data layer, and native iOS frontend" },
      { "bold": "Product Architecture", "text": "Defining core feature flows, data models, and system architecture from scratch" },
      { "bold": "Native iOS",           "text": "Building UI components, navigation structures, and state management with Swift and SwiftUI" },
      { "bold": "Rapid Iteration",      "text": "Running multiple product ideas through short development cycles to test and refine" }
    ],
    "tags": ["Swift", "SwiftUI", "Xcode", "iOS SDK", "Product Engineering", "Full-Stack"]
  },
  {
    "id": "fullstack-consulting",
    "company": "Technology Consulting",
    "role": "Full-Stack Technologist",
    "period": "December 2021 — October 2025",
    "description": "Cloud-native platforms built on Kubernetes and microservice architecture. Full lifecycle ownership across infrastructure, backend, and frontend.",
    "achievements": [
      { "bold": "Platform & Infrastructure", "text": "Designed and operated cloud infrastructure across AWS and DigitalOcean supporting distributed services and internal platforms" },
      { "bold": "Kubernetes at Scale",       "text": "Provisioned and managed 50+ Kubernetes clusters using Amazon EKS and self-managed k3s; designed VPC topology, load balancing, and security configurations" },
      { "bold": "DevOps & Automation",       "text": "Implemented GitOps deployment workflows using ArgoCD, built CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring with Grafana, Prometheus, and CloudWatch" },
      { "bold": "Application Development",   "text": "Developed backend APIs using PHP Slim, contributed to microservice architecture planning with Java Spring Boot and Kafka, built Angular frontend components" },
      { "bold": "Team Enablement",           "text": "Provided infrastructure ownership and technical guidance for a team of approximately 10 engineers" },
      { "bold": "Developer Tooling",         "text": "Designed and built internal CLI tooling for container lifecycle management, distributed as a versioned package" }
    ],
    "tags": ["AWS", "Kubernetes", "GitOps", "ArgoCD", "Angular", "PHP", "Java"]
  },
  {
    "id": "fintech-platform",
    "company": "FinTech Platform",
    "role": "Infrastructure & Backend Engineer",
    "period": "May — October 2025",
    "description": "Development of a programmable money platform — designing AWS infrastructure, deploying Kubernetes workloads, and building full-stack application components.",
    "achievements": [
      { "bold": "Infrastructure",  "text": "Designed AWS infrastructure for financial platform with security controls and secrets management" },
      { "bold": "Kubernetes",      "text": "Deployed and managed containerised workloads with security hardening" },
      { "bold": "Security",        "text": "Implemented encrypted secrets management, VPC isolation, and access policy enforcement" },
      { "bold": "Full-Stack",      "text": "Developed backend services and Angular frontend components for financial operations workflows" }
    ],
    "tags": ["AWS", "Kubernetes", "Security", "Angular", "FinTech"]
  },
  {
    "id": "journalist",
    "company": "Media & Editorial",
    "role": "Journalist & Editor",
    "period": "2016 — 2021",
    "description": "Editorial and journalism roles in media before transitioning fully into software engineering.",
    "achievements": [
      { "bold": "Content & Editorial", "text": "Writing, editing, and publishing across digital media formats" },
      { "bold": "Career Transition",   "text": "Self-taught move into software engineering while working full-time — starting with web development and progressively moving into backend and infrastructure" },
      { "bold": "Communication",       "text": "Strong written communication skills applied directly to technical documentation and developer tooling" }
    ],
    "tags": ["Media", "Editorial", "Career Transition"]
  }
]