Leading the design and implementation of the software architecture at the heart of Maritime Mutual's digital transformation.Using the modern .Net stack on Azure, with Blazor Server and WebAssembly for UI, we're bringing state of the art web experiences to our members and brokers; setting a new standard for the Marine insurance market.

A broad role, in an initially small company, requiring hands-on C# & SQL development, leadership, release engineering, analysis & more.I regularly produced architectural analyses & designs for changes for new initiatives/customers.As a leader, I placed my team members first - trying to use my own bad experiences to provide the most supportive environment possible. I focused on positive reinforcement & simple, regular, repeated processes to provide the foundation; the teams did the rest.Hands-on Dev highlights include:- Integrated modern MS stack (Hosting, DI, Options, Configuration, Logging) & retrofitted per-request scoping into all .Net 4 applications.- Building an in-process events system capable of millions of events/sec in parallel. Added support, too, for Azure ServiceBus, RabbitMQ & NATS for distributed messaging, which then replaced both SignalR & SignalR Core scale-outs.- Added a storage abstraction layer so that media/files could be stored in any storage mechanism (Disk, Azure Blob, GridFS, AWS) - all driven from fragments of json configuration.I managed Azure DevOps, working closely with the CTO, QA Manager & Lead PO to capture everything possible (including all timesheets) inside the Azure DevOps platform for simplicity enabling us to track releases, bugs, ongoing work & planned work all together. I then built Power BI reports to provide a complete oversight of the Development/QA/Release process: e.g. team output rates vs complexity, bug rates, sprint progress, development quality etc.I built the initial set of CI/CD pipelines to automate the build & deploy process, as well the initial Azure set up for the Dev/QA/UAT environments. I then handed this over & then line-managed a Senior Platform Engineer to develop these further.I modelled the Scrum approach (estimations, reviews, stand-ups, retros etc) whilst growing the teams, gradually handing over responsibility as we grew large enough.By the time I left, all the teams ran themselves.

Two Scrum Teams, one backlog and a big .Net Core 2.1/Angular codebase which uses Azure SQL Database and Service Bus. Taking part in estimation, refinement & planning work for stories using Jira, and then developing in VS 2019, using Azure Devops Git repos for source control and Azure for hosting. I've had a particular focus on introducing more modern coding techniques to the client's shared framework, improving its speed, flexibility and maintainability.More recently I've joined the architecture to help determine and implement key architecture changes.

Developing the high performance .Net Core open source IOC Container: Rezolver (http://rezolver.co.uk).My many years experience designing and developing solutions from back-end to front-end means I have true working expertise in C#, HTML, Javascript, WPF, WCF, SQL and much more.I work around the Liverpool Street area, Essex or Suffolk.Check out my CV, a link to which is right at the head of my summary; then call me to find out more. I will work as a lone wolf, or as part of a team, and either way will bring a great deal of professionalism and quality with me.

Overseeing the remediation and integration of multiple legacy products, following an acquisition, to bring them up to modern security standards.Designed and developed a .Net microservice platform through which services (one-way and RPC) can easily be built on top of the Microsoft Service Bus product, but also any other message transport imaginable.Led the offshore team in their usage of this Microservice platform in the development of new services to replace legacy SOAP services and development of new REST services for document management.Provided a design for the use of Azure B2C to replace a legacy authentication platform used across existing PHP sites.

Focused on a major new project comprising C#, SQL, MVC, KnockoutJS, Python and PostGIS reading and interacting with geographical data to plan the building of utility networks.Apart from a day-to-day development role, I have also had the pleasure of mentoring the team in several things, including the aforementioned KnockoutJS, Bootstrap, async/await in C#, SQL Server Data Tools, MSDeploy, using Nuget to re-use internal components, and helping refine the team's use of SCRUM.I had an immediate impact on the team soon after joining. After reviewing their existing codebase as part of my first week, I identified some issues which needed to be addressed if they were to succeed in their plans. So, after getting agreement from the team leader, I designed a multi-tiered, fully asynchronous, service oriented architecture (the proof of concept of which is at https://github.com/LordZoltan/WebAPIDemos/blob/master/readme.md) for them to use. The design enables a completely interchangeable back-end for all applications in a solution, a key requirement of some of the projects the teams were taking on.The new architecture required buy-in from the other teams - a process I lead by demonstrating it in front of a forum of the senior software engineers and the company's lead architect. It was accepted immediately and has been the backbone of this and several new projects since.In line with this, I also championed, and provided training on, the use of the DI architectural pattern and, later, the use of the SimpleInjector IOC framework to simplify the configuration of complex solutions.I haven't only been reusing old skills whilst working with this team. After the departure of a team member, I also took responsibility for a web service layer, written in Python, required by our C# application to read and write geographical data in a mature PostGIS backend. This was a significant challenge, having no experience in either before I began, but I am now confident in both.

Internal and external project using MVC 5, Web API, Knockout, BootStrap (LESS), SSRS, Lightswitch and SQL Server 2012.For this project I have also been responsible for designing and implementing the TFS Builds used to prepare release packages; liaising with the deployment team to create simple release scripts that work in all environments from Dev up to Production. This involved authoring a couple of heavily customised MSBUILD scripts so that we could get our build server to package all the assets for Web (incl Light switch), database and shared content files.SSRS is being used to present clients with MI, but via a completely modern and custom UI - bypassing Microsoft's own outdated report viewer. I designed and implemented the website code to proxy the SSRS report server through our site, and inject multiple reports on to one page with dynamic filtering (bound using Knockout); with drill-through support and export support. An early prototype has already been described as 'far superior to anything that any client has ever had'.Prior to this I was on a 6 Month Contract working in an Agile Scrum team on a class-leading project using Asp.Net MVC, Asp.Net Webforms, SQL, Windows Workflow Foundation, SSRS and SSIS.Collaboratively estimating, designing and developing new features from a workstream provided by the Business Analysts; bug fixing and fault-finding.Suggesting code refactoring/redesigning based on my extensive knowledge of AspNet MVC and development in general, which has been taken on board and formed part of an initiative that has now gone on the product backlog.I integrated very quickly with this team, both professionally and personally, and was retained on the project despite most other people being moved off following the project being off-shored.4 months after moving projects, the offshore team are still following technical spikes that I produced to implement new functionality.

Applications development across all tiers and R&D - designing and developing advanced technology for all aspects of the business.Key (but by no means all) projects: 'Jobs & Career Search' - Android Application, 'Jobs API' (http://services.jobserve.com) - Public high performance REST API, 'ePayments' - re-brandable eCommerce payment gateway used across the whole group.

Started as a Junior developer, progressed to senior developer and then team leader. Developer FX trading software in C++, architected and co-programmed website for largest network of second hand car dealerships in the UK. Project completed on time and on budget.

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