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Hemel Hempstead, GB

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

This is the third contract with Avanti in the last 15 years. This time, Avanti needed someone familiar with the business domain and backend systems to design and build the next generation version of a suite of tools to manage satellite bandwidth capacity planning and reporting, while improving observability and maintainability of the legacy application. I.

London, England, United Kingdom

Worked across three squads providing solution design, management and technical governance to various transformation projects going on since the Virgin – O2 merger. Additionally worked on an end state architecture for strategic migration away from a legacy middleware approach. Fastify NodeJS services deployed into GCP (GKE) using Gitlab pipelines

London, England, United Kingdom

Helped to guide the transition to cloud (Azure) for a significant part of the bank’s estate of applications. Worked on caching, secrets management, Terraform Enterprise configuration, Node-based POC of CosmosDB, Mongo Atlas and Managed Cassandra feature evaluation for teams to help with curation process. Supplied a new architecture for management group.

United Kingdom

This was a reboot of the B2B ecommerce project that was interrupted by Covid in 2020, acting as a technical lead across a team of around twenty developers spread out geographically across three continents. The role entailed a high level of mentoring and upskilling of in-house developers to improve testing rigor, standards observation, and general.

United Kingdom

A greenfield proof of concept project deployed into Azure with a Java and JS (React) codebase, delivering code into DeutscheBank. Delivered the Azure DevOps pipeline to provide complete automation and ensured that all services were delivered as a tested set. Set up Prometheus metrics, Grafana, dashboards from source control into Kubernetes and auth.

Uxbridge

Working on data ingestion and transformation using a variety of technologies to streamline business processes and gain useful insights.

Hemel Hempstead, England, United Kingdom

Delivered a cloud-to-cloud migration of microservices from Azure to Kubernetes-on-GCP, and then followed that with a new B2B ecommerce platform using Kotlin and Vertx with Cockroach DB. Full DevOps own-what-you-write culture.

London, United Kingdom

Proof of concept work on secrets management using Hashicorp Vault and Service Mesh analysis to support the Vocalink NextGen project. Responsibilities involved scripting deployment of Vault into GKE and configuration of Vault to use a variety of backends for storing secrets, auto init and auto unseal of development instances, Kubernetes authentication and.

Uxbridge

Working on performance optimisation of data collection and analytics with AWS and Java stack.

Welwyn Garden City, England, United Kingdom

Role via Equal Experts. Developed microservices for strategic Clubcard propositions using VertX, Cassandra and Spark, with apps running in Kubernetes and AWS CloudFormation / OpsWorks database cluster. Implemented canary deployments, improved pipelines. Mentored other team members, boomeranged to other teams, pair-programmed. Demoed at weekly sessions and.

Developed multiple microservices deployed in Kubernetes for NowTV CMS. Developed Gatling load tests and worked on productionising the system with non-functional testing, monitoring and alerting tools.

London

- Agile delivery of productionised code for a client project, including a complete code audit and overhaul. - Prepared for a security penetration test, refactoring code to validate and sanitise user input, removal of unintended application behaviour and introduction of safeguards. Tested using the OWASP ZAP tool. - Improved maintainability and legibility.

London

- Improved educational outcomes across Kenya and Tanzania by developing various applications for DFID and ESA funded projects including country-wide captive portal technology that integrates with traffic QoS hardware, handling thousands of concurrent client connections with an approach optimised for remote management. - Created application which has been.

Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom

Software development consultant, working on a variety of projects for different clients covering conception stage to delivery using a variety of software stacks. This role covers a number of contract roles in the same time period.

Rickmansworth

Returned to Succeed Consultancy as a software consultant part-time to assist in a big project. - Trained and mentored developers, providing key development aid to enhance development time and accuracy. - Supported the adaptation of the MetaCanvas framework to meet specific client needs, including those of McDonalds, Tesco, Pret, Nandos, and several.

Holborn

- Agile development of REST endpoints with Jersey for microservices including an LDAP user service, MS Word, and PDF Document export, and video transcoding in media processing workflow that fed into an advanced video content repository for news agencies. - Key contributor to development of queue infrastructure using Qpid for pipeline processing systems for.

Rickmansworth

- Built software with emerging technologies like MongoDB and paradigms like SaaS, building new technology solutions based on client needs. - Led development of REST-based Java middleware project for US client, which handled 20,000 plus time clocking devices at scale. - Introduced Agile development processes including sprints, Kanban, stand-ups. - Designed.

Developer for satellite data distribution system, allowing UDP messages to be broadcast and multicast across Europe using a carousel system. Data fed in using web services, and then scheduled to utilise available bandwidth, taking into account priority & size of data to be delivered using a carousel.

Hatfield

- Developed web front end to Covigo messaging platform for configuration of inbound SMS, MMS, email, and bulk outbound WAP Push, SMS, MMS, and email messages. - Integrated with CMS for rapid delivery of platform features.

London

- Wrote social and game engine API in Java, using XMLRPC for Flash/Flex front-end and Hibernate back end. - Delivered high performance and reliability by employing integration, soak, and stress tests using JMeter to identify issues.

Moodle development (PHP) and Java development (configuring system to auto-deploy student projects to Tomcat)

Slough

- Rapid application development for campaigns and core services such as O2 Bolt-ons, PUK code retrieval, online help, and WAP sites - Administered replicated MySQL servers and six web servers. - Created general framework code, ported individual applications to Java, and headed other Java projects. - Maintained and monitored systems in production.

I worked at Epson UK from leaving university to 1998 when I moved to Canon, and then to a Canon dealer called Vision, after which I returned to Epson UK in 1999 and remained there until 2004. - Developed and maintained websites for UK, Ireland, and Scandinavia, including both design and coding of HTML, PHP, and Perl. - Delivered proof of concept.

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