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Make Docker and Kubernetes all the things

Dublin City, County Dublin, Ireland

Working as a senior software engineer on the customer team for a tier-1 US telco, providing development, testing and support for the Synchronoss Personal Cloud solution.I have predominantly been working on containerisation of components using Docker along with component upgrades, configuration, bugfixes and new feature development mainly in Java/Spring Boot and deployed to a range of different environments including VM infrastructure, Kubernetes and Apache Mesos.

Worked as a senior software engineer on the product team responsible for the Travelport 'Engage' product. I was responsible for maintenance and new feature development on a variety of backend microservices in Spring Boot (Java+Groovy) and Node.JS. I also worked on a PoC project of a React based single page application to provide destination specific information and advertising to travellers during the Covid 're-opening'.

Dublin

Javascript and JS frameworks (ES2015+, Node.JS, React, Redux, jQuery, Webpack,Highcharts, Flow-Types, Mongoose, Glamor, Jest...),Web Development (HTML5, CSS3, BootstrapJava, Java frameworks (Java EE/SE, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, EJB,Hibernate, JPA, JAX-RS, JMS),Java Testing (JUnit, JMeter),Development of RESTful Web Services in Java and Javascript (ApacheCXF, Spring boot/MVC, Node.JS+Express),XML and Java XML frameworks (XSLT, XML Schema, XPath, JAXP, JAXB)Database Development (Oracle, Postgres, Netezza, DB2, MongoDB),Version control (Git and SVN)Linux/Unix Shell (BASH) scriptingJenkins pipelinesAnsible playbooks

Dublin

The now factory acquired by IBM Oct/Nov 2013

- Development of GUI components according to functional specifications following an agile (SCRUM) software development lifecycle (Technologies: Javascript, jQuery, Google’s Maps API, GMAP jQuery API for Google Maps, Highcharts API, CSS3, HTML5)- Responding to QA team issues reported in Atlassian Jira and providing fixes for issues reported- Development/Maintenance of an internal ‘excel generator’ Java application used for generating and manipulating application configurations quickly using Microsoft Excel workbooks. (Technologies: Java, XML (XSLT, XPATH) Apache POI API for Java, XMLSchema, Unix scripting)- Following internal processes for creating build packages of the ‘excel generator’ tool from the version control system using Eclipse and Maven- Responding to end user requests in Atlassian Jira for changes/bugfixes for the ‘excel generator’- Generation of end user documentation for the ‘excel generator’

- Installation of applications in production and test environments- Investigating issues and reporting back to the development team in Dublin- Quick fix implementations, deploying scripts, software patches and build updates- Supporting end users in their day to day analysis of results- Feeding back comments, requests for enhancements and bug fixes to core development team- Implementing utility scripts to enhance the administration of the systems- Suggesting enhancements to core development team from my own experiences of the systems- Supporting users during acceptance and CR testing- Mentoring of support team members both internal and customer side- Liaising with customer support teams when external factors were impacting the systems and users- Raising requests with customer helpdesk for backups, data recovery and software/hardware configuration changes- Attending project meetings with the customer- Over time I became more involved in earlier stages of projects, gave direct input into proposals and effort estimates and specified hardware and software requirements for new customer systems.- Presenting training sessions both internal and external and mentoring new team members- Greater involvement in customer support across all customers and 24*7 on call- Documentation of installation and configuration procedures for products- Participating in the planning and execution of migrations of systems for customers - Responsible for dealing with resource requests from project managers and delegating tasks to other implementation/operations team members.Cape Technologies was acquired by Wedo Consulting and rebranded as Wedo Technologies in 2007.

- Functional testing of the UI in translated software versions- Making modifications to the UI in translated software versions to fix cosmetic issues- Liaising with translation team to ensure that all application text was translated- Oversaw the release to the software printing house of 4 translated versions of software