Dominic Porter

I am very proud to support this excellent startup which is both aiming to do great work for women's health, and created by someone for whom I have a lot of professional respect.

Rebuilding and modernising a data enrichment platform and associated UIs for an early-stage company, while providing technical leadership and roadmap input to the CEO. * Led architecture and rebuild of a legacy Azure-based system into a modern AWS-based platform, improving maintainability, deployment reliability and scalability * Introduced infrastructure-as-code (AWS CDK), CI/CD pipelines and automated testing, significantly improving deployment speed and reducing operational risk * Worked directly with the CEO to define technical strategy, roadmap and future team structure * Applied AI-assisted development workflows (LLMs, Copilot) across planning, coding and review processes to accelerate delivery

Developing an app that gamifies taking individual climate action. Part-time work on the Java/Spring boot REST API, Typescript/React web portal and Java/Android app. I also help plan and develop the infrastructure which is currently a combination of fixed servers and Docker containers running on OpenStack.

Worked on a large-scale energy and power market analytics platform supporting global data ingestion and visualisation. * Built and maintained data-intensive backend pipelines processing large-scale global power market datasets * Designed and delivered GraphQL APIs aggregating multiple distributed data sources into a unified analytics layer * Contributed to cloud infrastructure and data processing workflows using AWS serverless and data tooling * Worked in a remote US-based team, contributing daily production code and mentoring engineers on delivery practices Tech: Python, AWS (Lambda, Step Functions, Athena), TypeScript, GraphQL

Led development of a React Native mobile platform supporting sustainability-focused user engagement and rewards. * Built and delivered a cross-platform mobile application (iOS/Android) used for tracking and incentivising sustainable actions * Designed backend systems for event-driven processing using AWS serverless architecture * Contributed to product decisions and system design across mobile and backend teams * Improved deployment and delivery pipelines using CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code practices Tech: React Native, Node.js, AWS, TypeScript, Serverless

Various contracts that meet my criteria of "Ethical and sustainable" - Not banking, defence, oil or destructive travel. If you work in alternative/renewable energy, climate science, humanitarian aid or other charities/NGOs then I would love to hear from you! Any form of Software Development considered using any language or technology. I can also offer project or backlog planning, agile process improvement, software project management and 20 years of experience of everything form C, C++, C# right through to Java, Javascript and large scale cloud based distributed systems. I am open to offers of any size, contract or permanent, part or full time, as long as they meet the criteria above.

Chairman of board of directors.

Worked on large-scale travel systems during a key transition from manual release processes to continuous delivery, and from monolithic C#/asp.net servers to python/javascrip micro-services. * Contributed to the shift from infrequent manual releases to fully automated CI/CD pipelines * Built and maintained services supporting high-traffic travel search systems * Worked across backend and infrastructure teams to improve system reliability and delivery speed * Collaborated with stakeholders to ensure end-to-end ownership of features Tech: JavaScript, Python, AWS

Lead expeditions up Kilimanjaro and Jebel Toubkal.

Freelance contract, developing Windows based applications for the CCTV & Security industry.

Developing a C# MFC client server system to manage CCTV cameras, recordings, alarms etc. As part of a small startup I worked closely with stakeholders to develop and distribute CCTV Video Management Systems which in some cases had thousands of active users and networked devices.

Territorial Army serving with various units in Scotland. Commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1998. 2 tours of Afghanistan.