Lead Software Developer
London, Greater London, Gb
Hired and led a team of 7 developers in London, and 8 devs off-shore since mid-2019. Technical lead of the Supply Chain Finance platform, in a phase of huge growth, playing a crucial role across major changes taking place:Leading the transition to microservices, architecting the rewriting of a major legacy component to microservices. Also migrating the existing platform apps to Docker containers and orchestration with Kubernetes, and huge test automation efforts across a complex system. Leading the architecture and designed several major product features after years of without new major features.Maintaining 2 production environments in Microsoft Azure, leading 3 new client-customised environments to production. Training new members to go to a newly client implementation team.Leading by example, mentoring new senior developers and coordinating the training across the team, which most of its members being new to the company.Achieved the right balance among delivery, quality and scope, with early communication on potential risks, and its associated solutions and mitigation.Brought higher quality and reliability to the product, in a joint effort with Support and QA.Successfully led migration from Windows Servers to a deployment model using Kubernetes and Docker.Java 8/11 (Spring and Spring Boot, Hibernate, JUnit/Mockito) and JavaScript (AngularJS, Flow, Babel, Webpack, Mocha), Sybase SQL, Camel, Git, Tomcat, Jenkins, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes.