Billy Robinson Email & Phone Number

London, GB

London, England, United Kingdom

• As a member of the Rider Incentives team, I play a key role in optimizing resource management to reduce customer wait times and improve the efficiency of rider allocation. My work involves a blend of experimentation.
• Collaborate on developing and rolling out experiments and new features aimed at improving rider efficiency and optimizing resource utilization.
• Maintain and enhance existing systems, ensuring they remain robust and scalable to handle dynamic demands in real-time environments.
• Respond to production incidents by quickly diagnosing and resolving issues, minimizing downtime, and ensuring stability for all stakeholders.
• Champion operational excellence by refining processes, improving system reliability, and proactively addressing potential bottlenecks or inefficiencies.
• Partner closely with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions that balance operational requirements with customer satisfaction metrics.

Texas, United States

London, England, United Kingdom

• In my role as a Software Engineer at Medidata Solutions, I was actively involved in the development and refinement of Medidata's flagship Clinical Trial Management System (CTMS). This pivotal role encompassed a range.
• Worked on Medidata’s flagship Clinical Trial Management System, implementing the Quarkus Java framework’s reactive-based Java approach to fully replace a legacy Scala-based system.
• Encouraged and tutored junior colleagues on using test-driven development working patterns and implementing object-oriented design techniques while contributing to our codebase.
• Led efforts to optimize permission fetching and avoid multiple database and microservice trips by implementing an interface-level, dynamic permission system through a reactive annotation processor that ran ahead of all.
• Designed and built a notification system that allowed notifications to be sent from the application to the end user via email or in-app notifications, and contributed to the technical documentation to explain the.
• Resolved customer issues after a production release of our product, debugging issues locally and using this knowledge to help bring about backend performance gains for customers.

London, England, United Kingdom

• As an Associate Software Developer, I served within the Core platform team at Anaplan, focusing on internal systems. My role was characterized by a dynamic and diverse set of responsibilities, allowing me to work on a.
• Created and maintained a java application to compare the current production version of the core product and a release version, running in parallel with multiple threads and on multiple kubernetes pods.
• Reducing the release candidate to release time by 38% (average over 4 releases), by automating the running of comparison testing.
• Innovating and removing unused redundant parts of the build cycle. Part of this innovation included migrating the build cycle from datacenter to cloud nodes.
• Conducting code reviews for 4 projects using Java, Rust, Groovy, Python and Helm, thus improving code quality by identifying and addressing issues related to performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Implemented low-latency communication strategies to optimise network performance and reduce latency in the application, resulting in faster reporting times and improved developer experience.

South Tyneside, England, United Kingdom

• In my previous role, I played a pivotal role in successfully implementing a cutting-edge website. I led the development and deployment of a set of microservices running on AWS, utilizing Kubernetes pods. I meticulously.
• Led the end-to-end development and launch of a dynamic website, employing microservices architecture on AWS with Kubernetes pods.
• Designed and coordinated the deployment of microservices, prioritizing optimal performance and scalability at every stage.
• Fostered collaborative relationships with cross-functional development team members, ensuring seamless integration of microservices with the website's front-end.
• Proactively monitored and optimized system performance, implementing strategic enhancements to elevate the overall user experience.
• Achieved and maintained an impressive 99.9% uptime for the website, skillfully managing high traffic volumes during peak periods.