Christos Loucaides Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London Area, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

- Selected to assist at lab sessions and assessment for Computer Science modules, which I scored highly in during my first and second year.- Presented with an award by the university, for my tireless dedication, providing extensive support to students.

London, England, United Kingdom

Helping first-year students to adjust to the university environment.

London, England, United Kingdom

During my placement year at Sky I worked with the following:Languages: Java - Oracle SQL - HTML Technologies: HTTPS - SOAP XML - JSON - ActiveMQ - Docker - Kubernetes - Git - RESTful APIs Frameworks & Libraries: JUnit5 - Mockito - AssertJ - Hamcrest - Jetty/Jersey - JAXB - Jackson - Yatspec - Maven - Gradle Tools: Ubuntu Linux - IntelliJ - TeamCity - GoCD - Gitlab - Splunk - Jira - Confluence - Artifactory Development Processes: Agile - Kanban - TDD/ATDD - BDD - Trunk… Show more During my placement year at Sky I worked with the following:Languages: Java - Oracle SQL - HTML Technologies: HTTPS - SOAP XML - JSON - ActiveMQ - Docker - Kubernetes - Git - RESTful APIs Frameworks & Libraries: JUnit5 - Mockito - AssertJ - Hamcrest - Jetty/Jersey - JAXB - Jackson - Yatspec - Maven - Gradle Tools: Ubuntu Linux - IntelliJ - TeamCity - GoCD - Gitlab - Splunk - Jira - Confluence - Artifactory Development Processes: Agile - Kanban - TDD/ATDD - BDD - Trunk Based Development - Pair ProgrammingExperience:● Focused on development and maintenance of dockerized Java microservices with Oracle SQL databases, in the domains of telephony, mobile services and broadband provisioning, with a userbase of 9 million customers.● Collaborated in a team that spearheaded the development and launch of Sky Mobile services in a new international market, built using event driven asynchronous processing with ActiveMQ (JMS).● Delivered new features on broadband pre-sales and pre-provisioning checking systems that determined internet provisioning speed and cost, based on customer addresses.● Implemented Test Driven Development with JUnit4/5, Mockito, AssertJ, and Hamcrest, alongside using and maintaining an internal BDD/ATDD framework for scenario-based testing.● Managed version control with Git and GitLab, implementing CI/CD practices using TeamCity for efficient workflow and feature deployment.● Developed an internal application to automate parts of manual testing, improving efficiency and reducing errors.● Utilized Clean (Hexagonal) Architecture principles to enforce separation of concerns by enforcing SOLID principles and decouple core business logic from external frameworks.● Collaborated within an agile team, employing pair programming and kanban scheduling to optimize productivity.● Assisted in DevOps (Kubernetes) and QA Testing (Postman) to ensure timely feature releases during resource constraints. Show less

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Nicosia, Cyprus

During this internship I have:Worked on client websites created through a CMS (Wordpress), together with the company's web team. Written JavaScript Object Notation-Linked Data (JSON-LD) using Schema Types to enhance Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for certain web pages.Written a program (Java) that produces JSON-LD Schemas automatically based on user inputs.

Nicosia District, Cyprus

Communications and Radio Specialist

Cyprus

Chief Technology Officer at QuickEat. This involved filming/editing commercial videos as well as building and maintaining the company website. The company won the "Best commercial video award".

Computer Science With Management, Computer Science

Degree Classification: First Class Awarded Peter McOwan prize for outstanding academic achievement. Won project video showcase award.

Secondary School