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Lead Engineer

Company Context

Just Eat — a rapidly growing food delivery platform. Joined as one of the first 20 technical hires to stabilise and scale the platform. May to November 2011, London.

Summary

Joined as one of the first 20 technical hires to stabilise and scale a rapidly growing food delivery platform. Led key initiatives to modernise architecture, introduce deployment automation, and enable international expansion through pragmatic engineering.

Responsibilities

  • Re-architected core systems originally built as student prototypes, introducing layered design patterns, automated test coverage, and maintainable deployment flows
  • Migrated from legacy ASP.NET WebForms to a modern ASP.NET MVC 3 foundation, improving separation of concerns and enabling team growth
  • Supported internationalisation by adapting platform services for rollout to two new European markets, coordinating payment, language, and logistics adjustments
  • Built an automated deployment pipeline using Ruby and Jenkins, reducing release risk and enabling regular, fast deploys with rollback capabilities
  • Reverse-engineered and integrated EPOS printer systems, enabling direct order acceptance/rejection by restaurants — a key step in real-time operational visibility
  • Led squad-level Agile ceremonies, retrospectives, and technical design discussions to embed delivery discipline and sustainable engineering growth

Outcomes

  • Modernised platform from legacy WebForms to ASP.NET MVC 3, enabling team growth and maintainability
  • Enabled international expansion into two new European markets
  • Delivered automated deployment pipeline with rollback capabilities
  • Integrated EPOS printer systems for real-time restaurant order management

Reusable CV Bullets

  • Joined as one of the first 20 technical hires to stabilise and scale a rapidly growing food delivery platform
  • Re-architected core systems from student prototypes, introducing layered design patterns, automated test coverage, and maintainable deployment flows
  • Migrated from legacy ASP.NET WebForms to ASP.NET MVC 3, improving separation of concerns and enabling team growth
  • Adapted platform services for rollout to two new European markets, coordinating payment, language, and logistics adjustments
  • Built an automated deployment pipeline using Ruby and Jenkins, enabling fast deploys with rollback capabilities
  • Reverse-engineered and integrated EPOS printer systems, enabling direct order acceptance/rejection by restaurants

Evidence / Source Notes

  • Source: verbose CV enrichment; reconciled with JobVia export (madu_alikor_export.json).
  • Confidence: medium — detailed role description from CV

Open Questions

  • Specific metrics on deployment frequency or time savings
  • Details on the European markets launched