Split support between Finance and Core tribes supporting solutioning, distributed microservice triage, ecosystem knowledge, and iterative process or ecosystem improvement, as applicable to each tribe's context• Review at both the code level and technical solution level for new features or improvements• Prototype new processes and ways of working within and between our monorepos• Improving data-driven metrics for code quality, distributed tracing, integration delivery monitoring,… Show more Split support between Finance and Core tribes supporting solutioning, distributed microservice triage, ecosystem knowledge, and iterative process or ecosystem improvement, as applicable to each tribe's context• Review at both the code level and technical solution level for new features or improvements• Prototype new processes and ways of working within and between our monorepos• Improving data-driven metrics for code quality, distributed tracing, integration delivery monitoring, and more• Manage tracking and interview of senior/junior recruitment candidates for approval Show less

Technical point of contact between the Finance tribe and the business for story delivery, product defects, and technical excellence goals.• Small team embedded in the wider organisation under a Spotify/tribe model• Delivering final production hurdles of the 3+ year enterprise digital transformation project• Cross-tribe collaboration on performance, observability, and security• Triage support across the integration layers between TypeScript, Kafka/Avro, API Gateway, and… Show more Technical point of contact between the Finance tribe and the business for story delivery, product defects, and technical excellence goals.• Small team embedded in the wider organisation under a Spotify/tribe model• Delivering final production hurdles of the 3+ year enterprise digital transformation project• Cross-tribe collaboration on performance, observability, and security• Triage support across the integration layers between TypeScript, Kafka/Avro, API Gateway, and Enterprise integration / Financial ERP platforms• Drive reliability improvements in key integration by reducing transmission errors up to 85%• Build and release management of the microservices within the tribe Show less

Responsible for broad, inter-system design to support business requirements, and distribution of work within the team.• Varied product portfolio: Laravel+React services; primary monolith as a custom PHP+JS SPA, React Native Android/iOS applications, SAML IdP, and Facebook OAuth/OIDC integration• Attending cross-territory Architecture meetings (UK/MY) for aligning technical strategy• Internal consultant for design and architecture of key team projects• Proof-of-concept… Show more Responsible for broad, inter-system design to support business requirements, and distribution of work within the team.• Varied product portfolio: Laravel+React services; primary monolith as a custom PHP+JS SPA, React Native Android/iOS applications, SAML IdP, and Facebook OAuth/OIDC integration• Attending cross-territory Architecture meetings (UK/MY) for aligning technical strategy• Internal consultant for design and architecture of key team projects• Proof-of-concept Node.js/Webdriver.io automation suite for BDD testing• Transitional ownership of the production MySQL databases for monitoring and deployment purposes• Developed (ongoing) Laravel integration against primary monolith for future maintainability• Co-maintainer of the primary product's GitLab CI and Node.js build systems• Regular merges of inter-territory development branches• 3rd level support for customer and production issuesFavourite moment(s): configuring Laravel to re-use existing PDO objects for shared transaction support; and debugging Jawi unicode issues on a customer site visit. Show less

Responsibilities increased to high-level designs, implementation, and feature testing.• Focus on analytics logging for internal and in-app use. Basic time series logging and optimisation within MySQL + user-facing charts and UI design.• Spike-work on Hadoop, Hive, Phoenix and GlusterFS on hyper-converged VM cluster to support business analytics, using Ansible for repeatable infrastructure • Lead developer of second in-house React Native mobile application, using new microservice… Show more Responsibilities increased to high-level designs, implementation, and feature testing.• Focus on analytics logging for internal and in-app use. Basic time series logging and optimisation within MySQL + user-facing charts and UI design.• Spike-work on Hadoop, Hive, Phoenix and GlusterFS on hyper-converged VM cluster to support business analytics, using Ansible for repeatable infrastructure • Lead developer of second in-house React Native mobile application, using new microservice REST API with Laravel• 3rd level support and continued maintenance of our primary monolith• Hosted team knowledge sharing sessions Show less

Developing new application features in PHP and JavaScript with tests. Stability and bug fixing enhancements in response to customer or QA triage. Visiting schools and stakeholders to better understand product benefits and challenges.

Writing new applications and widgets for the primary product in JavaScriptMVC. Built the product's "Timeline" feature to deadline for a public demo at the Frog13 conference, presented by the company MD

HTML 5 casino game development with RequireJS/AMD with Node.js + WebSockets. Fixing bugs and performance regressions in the primary Zend framework application.

Undergraduate-level thesis on building a PHP parser for binary Git packfiles for use in ownCloud, leading to a deeper understanding of binary-level encodings of integers, memory offsets, and basic bloom filters. A project blog was maintained at http://craig0990.wordpress.com, although the project was not ultimately accepted into ownCloud.

Designed and developed various websites with bespoke content management systems, wrote HTML/CSS markup for provided designs and set up and configured web hosting.