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Bournemouth

Lead Engineer in a DevOps team responsible for building, deploying and supporting software on an AWS based Kubernetes set-up, reporting directly to the company CTO.yooblr.com:Greenfield development project for a new social networking website. Lead engineer with responsibility for technical architecture & design. Worked in conjunction with UX designer.- user story mapping- REST api design- graph database design- costing and resource management- prioritisation and MVP designationTechnology stack - java 11 - spring boot, thymeleaf, maven - kubernetes (on AWS EC2 instances using Kops) - aws neptune (graph database) - jQuery, React, sass, webpack - cypress & percy for automated & visual UI testing - firechat & firebase realtime database for realtime chat mechanism - firebase cloud messaging for push notifications - observability with prometheus, grafana and kibana - Spring Security, AWS Cognito, OAuth2, OIDCmymhealth.com:Typical of a fast moving start-up, the main product had become an unwieldy, inflexible monolith resistant to quick business demands. - converted project to use a more familar build tool (from sbt to maven)- separated public-website from web application including automated kubernetes mechanism using argocd. This facilitated the website and development teams being able to work separately from each other.- moved static assets into AWS's CDN (cloudfront) to reduce project sizes, and make sites more responsiveanalytics platform:Worked alongside CTO to build out analytics service. Consumption of business events over Kafka, data provision to external clients over REST API, visualization of data using Metabase.Technology stack - spring boot - cassandra, postgres - Spark - metabase - AWS Cognitoclinicial algorithm service:Event driven near real-time categorization of patients based off of key data points and fed back to clinicial health staff for treatment prioritisation.

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Investment Bank - Back Office - Derivatives ProcessingSenior developer on core engineering and cloud enablement team.# Signavio - Installing Signavio process mapping and workflow software on JPM infrastructure; ensuring an enterprise grade implementation complete with observability and cybersecurity compliance.# Internal Open Source - Environmentalizer; Jenkins 2 plugin for logical environment and automated service provisioning on Pivotal Cloud Foundry - Node.js/Express web service emulator for operations task management platform - Internal cloud packaging and deployment scripts in bash, groovy, ecmascript and python.# Cloud Enablement - Pioneering build out of new derivatives affirmations platform using microservices architecture on Pivotal Cloud Foundry PaaS - Implementation of, and subsequent presenting on, high availability and resiliency patterns - Automation of PaaS environment creation - React/Redux ecmascript user interface for data maintenance# Production stability - Improved root cause analysis on legacy derivatives platform by implementing log aggregation and analytics using Splunk. - Implementing distributed tracing in key legacy frameworks. - Performance improvement in legacy Flex Web Applications# Legacy System Migration - Rewrite of fax processing, integrating with firmwide service - Packaging of legacy RDBMS query tool

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Investment Bank - Precious Metals TechnologyTechnical Lead and Design Authority# Internal OLTP System## Physical Settlements- Consignments solution based on microservices and html5 user interface- Implementation of allocations functionality - Performance improvements - Integration work with portal and manual task management system## Production Stability- Lead initiatives to improve system availability for business partners resulting in a 59% reduction in production incidents over six months- Automation of legacy system restarts resulting in 88% quicker restart time- On-boarded to monitoring tool and provided bespoke dashboard for business partners- Significant improvement in code quality# Client facing OLTP System## Security- Multi-factor authentication build & implementation- Resolved historical cybersecurity breaks- Facilitation of internal and external security testing## Legacy System Replacement- Design, build and roll out of pilot- Microservices architecture- Logical data model for new Bullion schema- New user interface based on bespoke UX requirements- Integration with JPMorganMarkets portal and usage of their Client Facing Platform APIs

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Investment Bank - Middle Office - Commodities TechnologySenior developer on reconciliation platforms.# .NET and SQL Server legacy reconciliation platform- 24/7 production support on platform critical in commodities strategic migration (Endur->Athena)- Sole responsibility for hardware migration project.- ETL flow development (SQL Server Integration Services)- Performance improvements on long-running business critical processes- Quality improvements e.g. on-boarding legacy application to source control# Python target state reconciliation platform- Build out of target state reconciliation platform- Migration of key reconciliations from legacy application and its decommissioning.

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Investment Bank - Back Office - Derivatives ProcessingDeveloper on User Experience/Interface team# Derivatives Portal- Management of Workbench portal. Upgrading, on-boarding, automating CI and release processes- Assisted roll-out of UX programme# Operations Trade Explorer - Java & MarkLogic server-side, Adobe Flex client-side, development of trade explorer application that tracks current state of affirmation and settlement- Production support of business critical application- Integration between explorer and helper components

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Investment Bank - Back Office - Derivatives ProcessingDeveloper on trade affirmations team# Legacy derivatives processing platform- C++ & Java technologies- Document generation and confirmation tracking of derivatives trades# Ancillary workflow systems- .Net & SQL Server tech- Manual Tasks and Tracking application- Alleges application# Strategic build-out- Business flows using JPBM/Drools- Generic trade XML and manipulation thereof with XSLT,XQuery & XPath

Bournemouth

Banking Services - MessagingDeveloper on 3rd party banking services like share issuance using a technology stack including Java, MQ Series and WebSphere.

Wimborne St Giles - Dorset

Java & web developer on Vodafone U.K. Corporate website

Fenchurch Street, London

Developer on Pan-European web applications. Used a Java/Tomcat/Struts/Oracle technology stack. Travel and Life insurance. Required internationalization for Milan office.

Hayes, Middlesex

Java client server applications using Swing and DB2.

Modern History & Politics, 2:1

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