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Head of Technology


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Employer: JOE Media

Dates: Sept 2021 – Oct 2025

Skills: AWS (Lambda, S3, CloudFront, RDS, Cognito), Cloudflare, GraphQL, High Availability Architecture, MongoDB, Technical Leadership, WordPress


Led migration of 8-site publishing estate from external agency to in-house AWS serverless infrastructure, zero downtime. Grew the estate 50% and traffic 120%, cut costs ~15%, supported 2,300+ concurrent users/min via multi-layer caching (RDS optimisation, object caching, Cloudflare full-page caching). Built/led distributed team (UK + Kosovo). MongoDB/GraphQL used in headless WordPress switch.

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