ISAAC
NEWTON.

Senior Staff Engineer / Engineering Manager

• Technology leader across the organisation, progressing from Technical Lead to Engineering Manager and then into senior technical leadership focused on architecture, strategy and cross-team influence.
• Defined architecture and technical strategy for large-scale distributed systems and Nx monorepos using Node.js, TypeScript, NestJS, Next.js, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Redis, Elasticsearch, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform and Datadog.
• Led the evolution of core healthcare platforms from monolith to event-driven microservices, improving scalability, performance and operational resilience.
• Delivered a highly resilient platform with zero request loss under peak load through reliability engineering, zero-trust alerting and effective on-call processes.
• Achieved 100% automated test coverage by introducing multiple testing layers and reducing cross-team dependencies.
• Led hiring, onboarding, career development and performance management, building high-performing teams and future technical leaders.

Technical Architect (Fractional / Consulting)

• Built and mentored the first dedicated in-house engineering team for the platform, accelerating delivery and fostering technical ownership.
• Led the migration from a monolithic platform to scalable microservices, establishing backend standards, CI/CD pipelines and modern engineering practices.
• Designed a machine learning solution for vessel activity classification using clustering, geospatial analysis, Python and MLflow.
• Built real-time geospatial capabilities for vessel tracking and operational visualisation with PostGIS, GeoServer, Elasticsearch and Socket.IO.