Pete Savva

Senior Frontend Engineer who ships products that make money. Led 5 engineers at Clippd - 35% velocity improvement, 22% lift in feature adoption across 10K users. Solo-built a SaaS trading platform from first commit to paying subscribers. Passed security audit with zero critical findings at a biotech startup, unlocking enterprise healthcare contracts. Took a retail business from zero to £1M+ digital revenue.

Three

Securities & Investment Institute certifications; I think in both code and commercial outcomes.

Senior Frontend Engineer (Founder) at Trading Warfare (2024-10 – Present)

Gamified 3D Order-Flow Training Platform. Took a SaaS product from concept to paying subscribers as sole developer: 3-tier Stripe billing, gamified onboarding with 18 missions, email-OTP auth. First commit to public beta, one person, revenue on day one.

• Built a 3D trading interface that differentiates in a market of flat, table-based tools. Aggregates 10B+ daily order book updates from 3 exchanges into a real-time WebGL visualisation. Wired a PS3 controller with mappable hotkeys - users can fire complex orders into the market without touching a keyboard. Early users cite this as the primary reason they subscribed
• Architected an AWS streaming pipeline (Lambda, Kinesis, S3) handling billions of daily events. Infrastructure cost stays minimal because the architecture was designed around it — margin protection for a data-heavy product
• Ran thousands of landing page split tests programmatically in Next.js. Handled my own TikTok marketing. One-person growth team
• Used LLMs to generate completely bespoke training levels depending on where each user gets stuck. If someone's struggling with a concept, the next level drills exactly that — no generic curriculum
• Designed a market screener scoring 30 candidates on volatility and spread metrics. Cuts the time traders spend finding opportunities from minutes to seconds

Founder & Senior React Developer at Tech and Tribal (2021 – Present)

Web Development Studio. Delivered 12+ client projects with a distributed team of 6.

• Hit every deadline — repeat business followed because clients trusted the delivery
• Improved client conversion rates by an average of 28% through 3D marketing experiences and pixel-perfect interfaces. That ROI justified premium pricing for every engagement
• Mentored 2 junior developers to mid-level within 12 months. Grew the team internally rather than hiring externally — cheaper, faster, and they already knew the codebase

Senior Frontend Engineer (Contract) at Stealth Startup (2025-01 – 2025-04)

Web3 Social Platform. Delivered a production-ready Ethereum social platform in under 4 months. First commit to investor demo — the founding team needed to test the market before runway ran out, and we did.

• Built real-time AI chat using WebSockets and OpenAI function calling. This was the feature that landed in every investor demo because it showed collaborative content creation live, across concurrent sessions
• Integrated wallet connections and on-chain minting; presented to investors at EthCC Cannes alongside the founding team. Comfortable representing technical work to commercial audiences

Lead Frontend Engineer at Clippd (2024-03 – 2024-09)

AI-Powered Golf Analytics Platform. Led 5 engineers across 3 time zones.

• Improved team velocity by 35% through structured code reviews and pairing — more shipped per sprint, faster iteration on what users actually wanted
• Built an A/B testing framework that increased feature adoption by 22% across 10K+ users. Engineering time stopped going to features nobody used
• Lifted Core Web Vitals from 68 to 92 and cut API response times by 45%. SEO rankings climbed, bounce rates dropped, subscription conversions improved
• Established a component library with visual regression testing. Cross-team inconsistencies disappeared; new features shipped faster because the building blocks already existed

Founding Fullstack Engineer (2nd hire) at GeneHub (2022-11 – 2023-10)

Biotech Platform for Secure Patient Genome Data. Passed external security audit with zero critical findings. This was the compliance milestone that unlocked enterprise healthcare contracts.

• Architected the platform from day one alongside the CTO. A 2-person engineering team making framework and security decisions — moved at startup speed without accumulating debt that would slow future hires
• Built WCAG 2.1 AA-compliant interfaces for sensitive patient data using AWS Nitro Enclaves. Healthcare buyers won't sign without accessibility and security compliance; we had both

Digital Growth Partner & Data Analyst at ARO Fitness Felixstowe (trading as Anytime Fitness) (2020 – 2022)

Franchise Fitness Network. Recovered the majority of members lost during lockdowns across South East England through data-driven acquisition funnels and PostgreSQL analytics. Direct revenue recovery for a franchise network.

Technical Consultant & Team Lead at LTS Group (2015 – 2020)

Retail & Wholesale Manufacturer. Took digital revenue from zero to £1M+ annually. Led a 14-person team (engineers, logistics, ops) reporting to the CEO and board. Launched the company's first e-commerce platform.

• Built a custom CRM and analytics platform on minimal budget. Drove the first year of digital growth — no agency, no big spend, just results

Spot Dollar Broker & Technical Solutions Developer at RP Martin (2013 – 2014)

Interdealer Brokerage. Increased desk trading volume by £150M (22% growth) by building a VBA voice recognition system that automated broker workflows. Brokered 500+ daily transactions between Tier 1/Tier 2 banks.

Independent Trader & Fund Manager at Self-Employed (2010 – 2012)

Sports Arbitrage Trading. Founded and ran a profitable sports arbitrage trading fund. Built automated trading systems for high-frequency arbitrage. Full P&L ownership and risk management.

Algorithmic Sales Trader at Sigma Financial (2005 – 2009)

Boutique Equity Brokerage. Designed algorithmic trading systems that informed client execution strategies. Obtained IMC, CID, and CIS certifications.

Software Engineer – Self-Taught (2015)