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Northampton, Gb

London, Gb

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Lead DeveloperDates Employed November 2016 – nowLocation Sandton, South AfricaI was promoted to lead developer for my effort and dedication in stabilising a new system. Working in an agile environment for the Fintech startup my responsibilities included:-Leading technical discussions and decisions-Mentoring junior developers-Managing the delivery through deployments, rollbacks-monitoring logs and performance, tweaking and creating new ones where necessary-Running stand-ups, retrospectives, planning sessions-Reviewing code changes, ensuring quality and agreed standards/principles are met-Developing high quality features, focusing on reliability, maintainability and scalability-Integrating multiple third party API'sKey Achievements:-Promoted to Lead Developer-Tech lead in a number of successful projects-Helped kick start remote development team in India and supporting them there afterSkills used:C# (4.0-4.5.2), ASP.net Web Forms, Angular 2, SQL Server, Amazon Web Services (AWS), REST API, HTML, CSS, Javascript, JQuery, GIT, YouTrack, Mongo, 3rd party integrations

London, United Kingdom, Gb

Software DeveloperDates Employed October 2015 – December 2018Location Sandton, South Africa.Net Framework Software Developer on multiple projects for The Cyest CorporationMain Responsibilities-C# developer on multiple client applications-Maintaining existing C#, VB.net and VB based software applications for national entertainment company-Managing client relationships and ensuring company growth-Mentor junior developers-Manage developers career progression and enjoymentKey Achievements:-Helped created an Azure IoT safety application with a visual front end for a Canadian client -Performance managed external and internal developers to ensure successful project completion.-Was seconded to a Fintech startup where I was quickly promoted to tech lead and managed to stabilise the product and client relationshipSkills used:.Net Core 2.2, C# (up o 4.6), Angular, React, ASP.net Web Forms, SQL Server, HTML, CSS, Javascript, JQuery, Bitbucket/TFS, Jira, Management, Client Interaction

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Sandton, Gauteng, Za

Software DeveloperDates Employed January 2011 – September 2014Location Sandton, South Africa.Net Framework Software Developer on multiple projects for South African BreweriesMain Responsibilities-Participating in technical discussions and decisions-Maintaining existing C# based software applications-Creating a visual career progession tool utilising Silverlight and C# web services-Participating in stand-ups, retrospectives and planning sessionsKey Achievements:-Placed as lead developer on a troubled national mobile project -Performance managed external team of developers to stabilise the mobile project-Was deployed as the lead tech resource for a national software tender project worth millionsSkills used:C#, ASP.net Web Forms, SQL Server, HTML, CSS, Javascript, JQuery, TFS, Jira, SQL Server Merge Replication, Silverlight, WCF

Homebush West, New South Wales, Au

SEMA was a printing house mainly focussed in printing and storing large transactional statements and contracts. My job was to effectively accept multiple different file types through a generic web services and convert them to the applicable storage type and index the important pieces for easy retrieval (WCF, ASP.NET, SQL)

Worked on a B2B system for movie distributor video rental sales as well as an airline check in and seating system

Johannesburg, Johannesburg, Za

Helped create and maintain an online FX trading system and a corporate internet banking system with multi level approvals

Msc Software, Project Management, Object Orientation, System Design

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