Advertising Standards Authority
Lead Data EngineerOct 2026 - Present
Senior Data EngineerMay 2023 - Sep 2026
- Led engineering for the Data Science department's tools and infrastructure, and helped shape department strategy with the Director of Data Science.
- Planned and prioritised data engineering work across multiple projects, and supervised, mentored, and hired engineers.
- Owned the department's cloud budget and the security and reliability of its AWS and Azure infrastructure.
- Scaled the Active Ad Monitoring system from 50k to over 8 million ads a month on Airflow and Snowflake while keeping costs down, including an almost 30% reduction in monthly cloud spend in 2026.
- Engineered high-volume ingestion pipelines for APIs and web scraping across major platforms such as Google, Meta, and TikTok.
- Built internal Python and TypeScript tools, including libraries that simplify data access and analysis for data scientists, and web apps that support monitoring and day-to-day work.
- Delivered an internal AI agent platform with bespoke agents for ASA-specific tasks, increasing productivity across the organisation.
- Developed MCP servers and evaluated and integrated third-party AI tools such as Claude, Claude Code, and Microsoft 365 Copilot.