Highlights Summary:- Created technical design and led the shift into microservice architecture using .Net 6 and numerous AWS services including recommendations of Lambda, SNS/SQS, SES, DynamoDB etc. These services were used as domain services, façade services (such as abstracting CMS integrations) etc.- Created and trained a new 'Platform' development team, achieving >90% unit test coverage in SonarQube, conformity to SOLID and other principles, and outperforming a contracted… Show more Highlights Summary:- Created technical design and led the shift into microservice architecture using .Net 6 and numerous AWS services including recommendations of Lambda, SNS/SQS, SES, DynamoDB etc. These services were used as domain services, façade services (such as abstracting CMS integrations) etc.- Created and trained a new 'Platform' development team, achieving >90% unit test coverage in SonarQube, conformity to SOLID and other principles, and outperforming a contracted software house in subjective and objective quality measures.- Trained and coached the use of multiple design patterns including CQRS, strategy, factory, UoW & Repository, Singleton, Result etc.- Coordinated stories and tasks on 2-weekly sprints for all engineers, efficiently utilising engineers to focus on priority platform APIs in order to meet the requirements of multiple projects.- Created technical design and led the implementation of a platform wide OAuth and JWT based security layer, introducing scoped-based APIs for granular protection and prevention of unauthorised operations.- Leader, trainer, mentor and coach to not only .Net developers, but Python and PL/SQL developers also.- Developed a custom ‘WTW .Net’ service template based on my recommended – and critiqued – application architecture proposal and subsequent implementation.- Developed utilised a custom logger (as a package used in our Nexus repository) I wrote in order to abstract our use of Serilog, preventing coupling of each service with implementation details.Summary of Technologies Used:.Net Core / .Net 6, AWS (SES, SNS, SQS, Lambda, Cognito), Datadog, Kubernetes, Docker, Azure (API Gateway), Python, PL/SQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and more. Show less

Highlights Summary:- Influenced a paradigm shift in software development practices, replacing existing methods of auto-generated code with truly engineered solutions in order to ensure all future projects conformed to common development principles (such as SOLID), were maintainable and extensible and fully tested. T/his lead to senior management describing it as “exemplary” and “a revelation to our software development practices”.- Influenced resourcing approach to plan for the… Show more Highlights Summary:- Influenced a paradigm shift in software development practices, replacing existing methods of auto-generated code with truly engineered solutions in order to ensure all future projects conformed to common development principles (such as SOLID), were maintainable and extensible and fully tested. T/his lead to senior management describing it as “exemplary” and “a revelation to our software development practices”.- Influenced resourcing approach to plan for the future by bringing in junior developers with training from myself and another developer overseen by me.- Architected, participated on implementation, and lead the development team on a sensitive project for proprietary device quality checking. I was responsible for the coordination of all development work using refinement, planning, and retro sessions to ensure high quality standards were maintained. This was hailed as “truly fantastic” and “extremely professional”. Technologies included .NET 6, TypeScript, DynamoDB (NoSQL), ElasticSearch, Docker etc. Show less

Achievements- Technical lead and architect for the replatforming of an on-premises identity provider to one that is cloud hosted in AWS, engendering a significant improvement to login speed, customer experience, and new types of functionality.- Mentoring of employees wishing to enter into, or develop further their understanding of, software development using 1-2-1 sessions to discuss concepts, principles, and language syntax through verbal discussion, observed programming through… Show more Achievements- Technical lead and architect for the replatforming of an on-premises identity provider to one that is cloud hosted in AWS, engendering a significant improvement to login speed, customer experience, and new types of functionality.- Mentoring of employees wishing to enter into, or develop further their understanding of, software development using 1-2-1 sessions to discuss concepts, principles, and language syntax through verbal discussion, observed programming through screen-share sessions, and group conversation.- Management of direct reports, including senior developers; supporting and challenging existing approaches and understanding in order to assist in the development and progression aspirations of others.- Updated internal core code libraries consumed by many teams to improve their functionality, and to assist in mitigating required remediation activities, such as within penetration test phases, by ensuring our microservices behave efficiently, and consistently with little opportunity for human error.- Vastly improved the process of development through to releasing to the production environment by proposing and supporting a 2-week session focused on improving: code quality, integration test automation presence within our CICD pipeline, shared code library updates, Agile 'definition of done' review, code review guidance, design pattern knowledge sharing, and other knowledge transfer sessions. Show less

Summary:- Worked in an Agile team to develop a new B2B platform for our banking partners, creating and implementing a new SPA web application backed by over 50 microservices, along with dedicated software to migrate users on to the new platform.Achievements:- Promoted to Technical Lead due to "an exceptional year" including (but certainly not limited to!) those points stated below.- Developed the software to migrate more than 80,000 customers of our banking partners,… Show more Summary:- Worked in an Agile team to develop a new B2B platform for our banking partners, creating and implementing a new SPA web application backed by over 50 microservices, along with dedicated software to migrate users on to the new platform.Achievements:- Promoted to Technical Lead due to "an exceptional year" including (but certainly not limited to!) those points stated below.- Developed the software to migrate more than 80,000 customers of our banking partners, achieving more than a 99.9% migration success rate. Technologies used included .NET Core, microservices, AWS Lambda, AWS Aurora, AWS DynamoDB, AWS Step-Functions.- Created ad hoc scripts written in Python to support the testability of migration software through its ability to create and read simulated data based on a multitude of data combinations in order to identify potential edge-cases without the associated risk.- Solely created, implemented and collaboratively tested a dedicated microservice to provide specific functionality to fulfil an urgent functionality requirement within a single day, and with zero issues.- Decreased login and associated authentication durations in key customer journeys by 35%, learning Java and Groovy in order to provide resource to an optimisation initiative jointly created with a fellow team member.- Decreased GitHub code review time by ~30%, achieved through the formation and dissemination of coding standards and best practices, highlighting particular design patterns and implementation examples, conformity to programming principles such as SOLID, DRY, YAGNI etc.- Subject matter expert in various AWS services such as DynamoDB, Aurora, AWS's CICD CodeBuild & CodePipeline.Summary of key technologies used in this role:- AWS: EC2 (microservices), ECS, ECR, Lambda, Step-Functions, Aurora, DynamoDB, CodeBuild, CodePipeline, CloudFormation, SecretsManager, ElastiCache, - Docker, .NET Core 2.x, .NET Core 3.x, C#, Python, Java, Groovy, Cucumber Show less

Developed lightweight CRM for Nottingham-based small business (C#, SQL Server).Developed recruitment-focused application to digitise key aspects of the recruitment process, create digital comparisons for quick analysis of candidates and their performance, introduce HR self-improvement through NPS tracking, and the ability to increase candidate performance in the recruitment stage (ASP.NET, C#, MySQL, JavaScript/jQuery, HTML, CSS, Web API).Developed a small voice-recognition… Show more Developed lightweight CRM for Nottingham-based small business (C#, SQL Server).Developed recruitment-focused application to digitise key aspects of the recruitment process, create digital comparisons for quick analysis of candidates and their performance, introduce HR self-improvement through NPS tracking, and the ability to increase candidate performance in the recruitment stage (ASP.NET, C#, MySQL, JavaScript/jQuery, HTML, CSS, Web API).Developed a small voice-recognition application to alleviate RSI by including (and allowing the addition of) common commands (C#). Available to see on GitHub: https://github.com/bbjreyes. Show less

Responsible for Vodafone UK's retail store employees' capability in using various systems (such as customer relationship management (CRM) software), accomplished by the on-going development of training software created and written by me.Created ‘Aurora’ (ASP.NET, HTML, CSS, C#, JavaScript, SQL): a search bot to bridge the gap between multiple intranet and SharePoint repositories by displaying relevant results based on a search query, whilst also displaying visual indicators depending on… Show more Responsible for Vodafone UK's retail store employees' capability in using various systems (such as customer relationship management (CRM) software), accomplished by the on-going development of training software created and written by me.Created ‘Aurora’ (ASP.NET, HTML, CSS, C#, JavaScript, SQL): a search bot to bridge the gap between multiple intranet and SharePoint repositories by displaying relevant results based on a search query, whilst also displaying visual indicators depending on the content type to support “blended learning”. Described as “a brilliant innovation” and “excellent” by the CTO and CIO respectively.Created bespoke VBA-based email platform ‘Ping’ used by every UK retail store, with an accompanying admin interface used by retail HQ support teams. Replaced existing license-based platform ‘Egain’. Programmed with dynamic SQL generation capable of creating over 2,000 dynamic reports. Developed version 2 of Retail Reality (training system) to include users' lifetime development data, and allow for decoupled login/process applications by using XML to persist data between file closures and start-up. Created feedback application with a 0% loss of submitted data, replacing the existing web-based version which had an almost 100% loss rate.Restructured intranet portal to reduce time taken to find content (avg. 91% decrease). This change was referred to as “the best and most efficient update I’ve seen in my 14 years at Vodafone”, by a respected senior manager. Show less

Responsible for delivering systems related training to retail stores, focusing on CRM tools and their developments, and the training delivery of my own system.Created and developed training application used by all UK retail stores to increase capability in using various systems (including customer relationship management (CRM), point-of-sale etc.), replacing two other previous pieces of training software (Datango, Oracle-based training system).Exceeded over 270,000… Show more Responsible for delivering systems related training to retail stores, focusing on CRM tools and their developments, and the training delivery of my own system.Created and developed training application used by all UK retail stores to increase capability in using various systems (including customer relationship management (CRM), point-of-sale etc.), replacing two other previous pieces of training software (Datango, Oracle-based training system).Exceeded over 270,000 fully-completed online journeys, with an estimated 45,000 completed offline within 2 years of its launch.Increased touch-point NPS (net promoter score) by multiple points after release of training application due to increase in employee knowledge and capability.Achieved 100% NPS for the national classroom training of the system – the only classroom training known to have received a perfect score.Developed employee-level reporting to objectively capture relevant data (preferred learning style, time to complete, training scenario, error count, and more), offering the opportunity for accreditation and skills recognition, as well as the ability to remotely validate training completion for every user.Described by a member of the retail leadership team as “potentially share-price changing”.Also, previously responsible for training of systems related topics in store and classroom environments, though the training system I designed and developed provided a superior and consistent approach to training, negating the need for arranged activity, leading to significant cost savings. Show less