Keith Devlin Email & Phone Number

London Area, United Kingdom

Working as Senior GO/Cloud Engineer whilst waiting new team after the closure of the Partner Gateway Team due to a refocus on business priorities at River Island

London, England, United Kingdom

In January 2018 I moved teams and joined the newly created Partner Gateway team. This team was responsible for the building of the new Marketplace & Wholesale functionality in RI. This was built on AWS using Java& Go and with Docker containers running on ECS and Lambdas.It also required the building of a Product Backbone (PBB) system to consume and expose product data. This data is exposed via a set of Rest APIs and is consumed by multiple key systemsResponsibilities include:• Hands on technical lead (40%) for a cloud based serverless technical team• Responsible for technical strategy and execution of the Partner Gateway product• Responsible for technical decisions & delivery, and co-ordinating with the Product Manager on prioritisation, sprint planning and estimation• Mentoring junior & cross skilling engineers to ensure their technical progression• Ensured the technical quality & functionality of the Partner Gateway product• Line manging engineers within the team, including setting Personal Development Plans & having fortnightly 1-2-1 sessions• Proactively working to remove blockers and support & enable engineers to deliver business value while ensuring velocity and quality• Working with other team tech leads and Senior Engineering Managers to define and execute the overall technical strategy and direction within engineering at RIKey achievements• Lead the team to successfully deliver the RI Partner Gateway Marketplace system on time for Q4 2018 earning RI £0.75M• Successfully delivered the initial PBB for product and price data across RI, and the successful delivery of its successor PBB v2 in Q2 2020.• Cross trained into Cloud Computing (AWS), Infrastructure as a Service (Terraform) and Go/Golang• Lead the team that delivered the technology to interface to the B2B Wholesale System. This was in the top 3 key strategic projects in 2020• Winner of the RI-Tech Person of the Quarter Q2 2018• Gained AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification in May 18

London, United Kingdom

I initially joined RI as a hands-on team lead for the third line support and BAU team of developers. Primarily this covered the core heritage estate of systems such as the Buying and Merchandising systems, Warehouse, Finance, Order Management. These were primarily Oracle systems written in PL/SQL, Shell (bash) Scripts, Forms, Apex and Uniface.Responsibilities included:• Training and knowledge transfer to newly incorporated second line to allow the team to be more focussed on the BAU tasks• Worked with the Scrum Master and PO to implement a Scrumban ways of working in the team for BAU tickets• Working with the PO and Scrum Master to ensure the BAU backlog was sufficiently refinedKey achievements• Managed the software delivery to the various heritage estate systems to incorporate the new Debenhams Kidswear store concessions and Homewear Division. This involved many significant changes to various core systems and required significant organisation and planning.• Ensured system defects and BAU requests were properly scoped and delivered in accordance with company SLAs• Gained Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master Certification

London, United Kingdom

Responsibility for developing software enhancements and delivering software releases for a software provider of trading solutions. Working as a senior developer on the ETD ARC real time ETL and reporting engine system:• Key member of an Agile development team responsible for delivering functionality using Java SE, Oracle and XML technologies for a business critical reporting application.• Ensured the quality of systems implemented through the production of accurate specifications by example, and often performed gap analysis between business and technology solutions.• Designed and developed tools to retrospectively document the data model relationships between various legacy systems and ETD ARC.• Mentored junior members of the team through pair programming tasks.

London

Responsible for managing the software development team on behalf of this provider of services and software to the global financial community• Managed and motivated 6-8 developers and second line support analysts supporting Oracle systems built using PL/SQL, Forms and Java.• Forecasted resources and budget requirements; scrutinised existing project requirements and examined future pipeline.• Managed 2nd line support team to ensure issues were resolved within agreed SLAs. • Responsible for producing the technical specifications for new functionality.• Project managed the team responsible for migrating from Oracle 10 to 11g

London

Park Life Publishing is a magazine publishing house that I owned and operated. • Started business from scratch and at peak had a turnover of approx. £100k• Negotiated a discount of 40% from total printing costs

London, United Kingdom

• Gained experience of managing both a London based development team and an offshore one (Prague based)• Managed budget & resource requirements for new & on going projects

London

• Managed a team of 6-8 developers and testers• Completed the rollout of the Oracle 6 to Oracle Forms 9i migration that had stalled under my predecessor• Responsible for mentoring team members, performing appraisals and recruiting new hires. Saved approx. £20,000 by recruiting directly.

Surbiton

Joined the company as a Junior Developer and progressed to Production Director.• Gained an solid understanding of Oracle and Unix technologies which I have continued to enhance throughout my career• Managed major software releases and builds• Became the key architect for the SAM Stockbroking System

Master Of Science (Msc), Computer Software Engineering

Modules Passed – M887 Web systems integration (2013), M883 Software requirements for business systems (2012)

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Business Operation And Control (With Studies In North America), 2:1