Dane Stevens Email & Phone Number

Castlemorton, England, Gb

Remote

AWS: Codebuild, Cloudwatch, Cognito, ECR, ECS, Lambda (inc. custom runtimes), RDS (Serverless), Route53, Secrets Manager, SNS, SQS, VPC & NetworksJavaScript: Node, React, Vue, Jest, CypressPHP: CodeIgniter, Laravel, Native, PHPUnit Data: MySQL, DynamoDBNetworks: UDP broadcast & communication, mesh VPNTools/IaC & CI/CD: Ansible, Terraform, Github Workflows, CodeBuild- Designed a prototype cloud-edge product using NodeJS and Docker with on-prem architecture to overcome latency and connection issues at client sites.- Delivered an embedded application to over 500 sites handling financial transactions to achieve a 5% MRR increase.- Influenced and documented architecture in a partner team's legacy application to move a suite of cron workers to AWS Lambda with a custom PHP runtime.- Identified operational blind spots and implemented metrics in CloudWatch, visualised with Grafana to support a cultural shift towards transparent collaboration.- Designed and led the implementation of write through caching in Redis to prevent a 50% increase in database costs and unblock progress in modernisation.- Identified an opportunity to replace a NodeJS ORM data process with Python using Pandas and decreased runtime per client by over an hour.- Designed a NodeJS application for Docker Compose allowing financial transactions to be processed with low latency at client sites then fed into our cloud architecture via a WAF secured proxy.- Delivered a management plan and reduction in technical debt alongside strategic and product milestones to maintain an acceptable balance of revenue driving products and risk reduction.- Designed and deployed a collection of Python network configuration tools to a virtual environment available from a hardened rbash terminal in Tailscale to reduce installation engineers' time on site.

AWS: ApiGateway, CloudFormation, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, Cognito, DynamoDB, ECS/ECR, Lambda, RDS, SESJavaScript: Node, React, Vue, Jest, GatsbyData: MySQL, DynamoDBJava: Microservice in Java 11 ProjectsArchitected & built a document sharing web application in Vue with Node backend.• Utilised Cognito for user authentication with different privilege roles.• Used ApiGateway with Cognito Authorizer for access to globally accessible and/or paid documents by serving pre-signed S3 URLs.• Frontend built in Vue and deployed statically on S3 with CI/CD on CodePipeline. Served via CloudFront and ApiGateway to enable Vue Router history mode with static deployment.• Tested with Jest.Architected & built a promotional website in React.• Deployed statically on S3 with CI/CD on CodePipeline & CloudFormation.• Served via CloudFront using Origin Access Identity to allow S3 bucket to remain privately accessible.• Used GreenSock animation to implement visual transitions and animationsthroughout the site.Architected & built a Java Lambda service• Receives, decompresses, validates and parses DMARC email report attachments.• The Lambda package outputs the DMARC result to DynamoDB.Conducted gap analysis to identify requirements and ensure compliance with ISMS in accordance with ISO27001.Maintained the IT risk register and ensured accountability was clearly understood among risk owners to minimise business interruption.Conducted desktop incident role play and response to ensure our time to recovery and risk to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.Authored a baseline InfoSec standard as an addition to the association's gold standard membership requirements, increasing consulting revenue and assuring quality in members' organisations.

Worcester, United Kingdom

- Mentored and coached several apprentices, managed legacy hires out of the business and built a team of engineers to support and create products.- Designed and delivered 'Eiger', a bespoke inventory management system handling millions of transactions over 50k warehouse locations using SQS, Lambda and Laravel.- Identified significant cost savings and advantages over key competitors and created a marketplace repricer responsible for sub second pricing over 100k products in response to competitor events.- Wrote a Java service for Lambda that converted PDF print labels to ZPL and reduced print processing time from > 2 seconds to < 250ms and unblocked a significant bottleneck that constrained capacity for growth.- Integrated the inventory management, repricing and CMS with many marketplaces and shipping providers to streamline operations and maximise revenue.- Migrated WordPress application to Laravel, RDS and ElastiCache as a platform for managing > 100k products.- Alongside the CEO I successfully communicated technical topics to investors of varied backgrounds and helped secure investment.

Worcester, United Kingdom

Worcester

- Communicated with stakeholders at all levels on technical competence to gather requirements and deliver products.- Designed a web application with Angular and an iOS application in Objective C which used geolocation and directory listing for a client who sold salon agnostic vouchers.- Worked in a team creating acpat.org in Laravel and integrated QuillJs as a simple CMS.- Created scaffolding-association.org for the UK’s largest scaffolding trade association.- Developed rye.group as a Vue SPA served statically on S3 via CloudFront and API Gateway.

- Founded an E-Commerce business following redundancy in a previous engineering role.- Grew the business significantly by building client and supplier relationships before selling it in 2014.

- Led a team of engineers in an electrical engineering project working on MoD contracts.- Created a prototype management system that led to inclusion in over 200 military vehicles.

Bachelor’S Degree, It & Computing (Hons)

TU100 - My Digital Life - Distinction MU123 - Mathematics - Pass (No Dist. Available) TM129 - Tech. in Practice - Distinction M250.

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