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London, England, United Kingdom

Popsa is one of Europe's fastest-growing tech companies in the last two years, according to Deloitte and the FT.Senior Software Engineer role designing, developing, maintaining and improving the services comprising the Popsa Platform, following a microservices architecture.Responsibilities and Achievements:• Lead architecture and development of a new photo metadata syncing feature to enable server-side AI processing, meant to handle 34+ billion rows of data in a cost-efficient manner.• Automated operational tasks, reducing engineering hours spent on overall platform maintenance by 300% and improving delivery times for Popsa's users.• Lead architect and developer for the development of several microservices using Go to enable more personalised offerings.• Integrated multiple third party payment providers, including Stripe, Klarna and Afterpay/Clearpay.• Refactored several existing services to include tests, metrics, monitoring and alerting using Prometheus.• Organiser of a regular knowledge sharing session between engineers to constantly asses any new tools that may improve the platform in any reasonable manner.• Mentoring junior engineers and interviewing candidates.

Hursley, England, United Kingdom

Back-End Developer role designing, developing and maintaining the services comprising the IBM Cloud Container Registry following DevOps philosophy, pair programming and TDD.Achievements• Contributed to the re-architecture and re-writing of a major feature of the Container Registry service. Improved response time performance by 500%.• Designed and wrote additional tests for several services, increasing the test coverage to over 90%, considerably reducing the likelihood of bugs reaching production when deploying changes.• Enhanced the automated deployment of a new instance of the Container Registry platform to ensure full compliance with the financial industry regulatory standards, reducing the amount of go-live ops tasks by 30%.• Technologies used: Golang, NoSQL, PostgreSQL, Cloud Object Storage (S3), Jenkins, Travis, Bash, Git, Kubernetes, Helm, Istio, Prometheus.

London, England Metropolitan Area

Integration Specialist role designing and implementing integration services for a massive ERP Digital Transformation programme.- Designed and developed several scalable, fast and container-ready integration services for the HR organisation using Java, IBM MQ and IBM App Connect Enterprise.- Lead and participated in multiple architecture design sessions.- Established Git workflows for the team, resulting in a consistent deployments and a 30% reduction in issue submissions.- Delivered presentations, demos and knowledge transfer sessions to the client, which resulted in positive feedback.- Technologies used: IBM App Connect Enterprise, IBM MQ, Java, SQL, Azure DevOps, Git.

London, United Kingdom

Role was to design, develop and build the Open Banking Sandbox and production platform for a couple of UK banks, working in a small Agile team using a microservices approach and several IBM products. Successfully delivered 2 Open Banking sandboxes and 1 production implementation.- Designed and developed several of the backend services comprising the platform as containerised microservices using NodeJS and DB2. React was used for the front-end. - Automated build, test and deployment by writing the CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins onto Kubernetes clusters.- Responsible for socialising the services as APIs and establishing FAPI (Financial API) conformance for the platform.- Provided L3 support for several months after go-live, fixing bugs and adding new functionality. - Lead customer-facing presentations and workshops.- Technologies used: Git, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Jenkins, Node.js, Express, React, Mocha, DB2, SQL, IBM API Connect, IBM DataPower Gateway.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

• Delivered a proof of concept project for a new technology platform on a global level, which involved liaising with vendors, P&G operations and information security, leading daily scrum calls, tackling issues and gathering data to report to project owner and stakeholders.• Lead for a project involving the piloting of a new smart messaging platform. Developed strong leadership and communication skills due to being responsible for leading the project team, defining the plan and ensuring delivery on-time and on-scope. Resulted in a decrease in operational costs and doubled customer satisfaction rate.• Technical consultant role for P&G product supply organisation, with a focus on coaching and enabling the teams capability on RPA technology to become self-sufficient and ensure ongoing support post go-live. Resulted in team of trained RPA developers that are capable of building an automated process end-to-end.• Financial Shared Services DevOps lead. Helped established a DevOps community across the P&G Financial Shared Services organisation with an initial focus on RPA technology. The role involves leading weekly calls, gathering and analysing data across multiple automation projects, conducting code reviews and providing support where needed. Working towards ensuring that all processes are designed according to best practice and to ensure a smooth end-to-end project lifecycle, from design to deployment.Key Achievements:• Successful delivery of the first production bot in the company based on a newly acquired smart messaging platform.• Successfully seeded a new technology within the regional Transport Operations team. Starting from zero, the team was up and running in production within 5 months and entirely self-sufficient.

Manchester, United Kingdom

The Northwest Biotech Initiative (NBI) provides a platform that encourages knowledge sharing and dialogue between young students, local and international businesses and industry experts. We promote the development of early stage researchers in the STEM fields by providing an inclusive space for fostering relationships between academia and the growing local biotech sector.Main responsibilities included: • General financial oversight and reporting.• Budget planning and book keeping for events.• Manage various sources of university funding as well as target and secure local external funding opportunities.• Maintain rapport with local sponsors.• Helping the team with organising event and hosting social outings.

Canterbury, United Kingdom

Representing the School of Biosciences, my duties as a student ambassador involved:- Manning the welcome desk and ensuring excellent service standards were maintained.- Dealing with queries from prospective students in a professional and positive manner.- Acting as point of contact for international applicants.- Collaborating with staff and other ambassadors to organise Open day events.- Leading groups of up to 40 people on tours, effectively promoting university courses and facilities.

Bangkok Metropolitan Area, Thailand

The National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) is an agency of the government of Thailand which supports research in science and technology and its application in the Thai economy.NSTDA’s main mission is to conduct R&D in the four main technology areas as well as to develop and support R&D in universities and other institutions, using in-house national technology centres and granting mechanisms. NSTDA is also involved in S&T manpower development in Thailand, creating S&T infrastructure and working with the private sector in support of national socio-economic goals.Reporting to the PI of the Rice Gene Discovery Laboratory, I have worked on a project that can open up new ways of improving cereal crop quality and yield.Responsibilites and achievements:- Planned, designed and managed a research project to ensure successful delivery in accordance with GLP. Exceeded expectations by finishing a month before the deadline.- Compiled and prepared scientific literature reviews- Interpreted research findings and summarised data into comprehensive reports- Chaired team meetings, prepared agendas and tracked progress.- Successfully prepared and delivered presentations to team and management.

Master’S Degree, Bioinformatics And Systems Biology, Distinction

Activities and Societies: Course Representative• Gained a strong understanding of computing and mathematical approaches to the field.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Biomedical Sciences, 1St Class Honours

Activities and Societies: Course Representative, Academic Peer Mentor, Student Ambassador• Greatly enhanced oral and written communication.