Jerome Gill

Jerome Gill

💼 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Vizuality 🔗

Madrid, Spain

MAR 2026 - PRESENT

Backend Developer

🚀 Key Projects

  • A platform for landowners and stakeholders to perform sustainability calculations for woodland land use across the United States
  • A mobile and web application allowing carbon credits to be distributed to small farmers if they meet agro-forestry requirements

Secret Source 🔗

Las Palmas de GC, Spain

JAN 2022 - FEB 2026

Head of Engineering

Responsible for delivering engineering culture. Additional responsibilities include technical pre-sales, solutions architecture, requirement analysis and hands-on technical lead/consultant on projects when appropriate.

🎯 Objectives & Key Results

  • Developer career progression evaluated biannually
  • Staff wellbeing measured weekly
  • Client satisfaction tracked monthly

🏆 Notable Achievements

Introduced group and individual mentoring to facilitate both progression and wellbeing. Focus on peer led learning.

🚀 Key Projects

  • An AI driven search platform blending text and image vector search techniques for the film industry
  • An internal RAG system for ISO documentation built with python, react and langchain
  • Agentic platform for consumer travel recommendations, finding ideal destinations, flights and accommodation given a user's preferences

🔗 Related Links

Secret Source 🔗

Las Palmas de GC, Spain

OCT 2020 - JAN 2022

Senior Software Developer

Full stack development - Lead a team producing a data pipeline platform for supermarket retailers that need to report on the sustainability of their supply chain. Key technologies included React, Azure, NodeJS

🚀 Key Projects

  • Data pipeline and platform for supermarket retailers to report on the sustainability of their supply chain. Key technologies included React, Azure, NodeJS. The project was successful, the company was acquired.

OurPeople 🔗

Bristol, UK

APR 2015 - NOV 2019

Founding Software Developer

Founding developer at a SaaS startup. Asynchronous communication for non desk workers. Clients include Serco, NHS, Thirdspace, EveryoneActive Virgin Active.

From prototype to product through 3 rounds of funding.

Full-stack development, PHP (Symfony), AWS, React / Native app.

Increasing leadership responsibilities as the team grew from 2 to 15

Worked on everything, from Product strategy, high level business analysis through to system design and technical implementation.

Justcollecting

Bristol, UK

SEP 2014 - APR 2015

Software Developer

Full-stack development, brownfield legacy recovery project bought in house after initial work done by contractors. Delivered a responsive redesign, RESTFull API and a significant backend rewrite. Notably discovered and resolved dozens of security vulnerabilities in the inherited codebase.

BoxUK 🔗

Cardiff, UK

JUL 2013 - AUG 2014

Delivering a number of projects as part of a team including the BCS website redesign, a web-mapping project of historical data for Somerset Heritage, Salesforce integration for Investec asset management website and engine

INTERESTS & SIDE PROJECTS

Data journalism OSINT Civic Technology NLP Tech/AI policy Accomplished rock climber Conservation and environmentalism B1 Spanish speaker

🛠️ SKILLS

Expert
Proficient
Familiar
⚡ Agentic / Modern AI
CTO / Head of Engineering
Engineering Leadership
Remote Team Leadership
Product & Technical Strategy
Software Architecture
SaaS & Startup (0→1)
Technical Hiring & Mentoring
Async Team Practices
Pre-sales & Solutions Architecture
AI Platform Strategy
Agentic Workflows
LLM Applications & RAG
Prompt Engineering
MCP / Tool-use Architecture
Agentic Coding
Vector Search & Embeddings
Langchain / LLM Frameworks
Data Engineering & Pipelines
JavaScript / TypeScript
Node.js
React / React Native
Python (Flask, Django)
REST & API Design
AWS / Azure / GCP
SQL & NoSQL Databases
Docker & Containerisation
DevOps & CI/CD
Terraform & IaC
Security Assessment
AI-Native Product Development
Search & Recommendation Systems
Sustainability & Climate Data
Platform engineering

🎓 EDUCATION

University Of The West of England

Audio and Music Technology

SEP 2010 - JUN 2013

Bsc 2:1