Senior Software Engineer
Conker Group turns real-time point-of-sale data from UK retailers into insights for FMCG brands and their national account teams, within minutes of the data arriving.
The platform runs on AWS with a PHP 8.4 codebase, EC2 Mac instances, and Vagrant for local environments, and I use Claude Code and MCP servers day to day.
I work on the data import pipelines, handling millions of data points a day, and led the migration of the legacy codebase from PHP 5.3 to 8.4. Alongside that I built the team's reproducible development environment, look after the macOS estate and its egress proxy, and ran an internal security audit and penetration test, fixing what it found including several GDPR gaps. I brought AI into the team's daily work: agentic coding as part of the workflow, MCP servers for internal tools, and automated AI passes for code review and data analysis.