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Lower Hutt, Wellington Region, New Zealand

I have worked at Aviat Networks to support work required to complete Frequency Assurance Software (FAS) version 2.0 and Link Health projects and improve development processes.∙ After my 5th week with the company I also took on the role as Scrum Master for the FAS team, which is not a role I have trained in so learnt to do it as I went along.∙ Worked on main product which uses AngularJS and Vue.js and have continually aimed to improve multiple areas of the application codebase.∙… Show more I have worked at Aviat Networks to support work required to complete Frequency Assurance Software (FAS) version 2.0 and Link Health projects and improve development processes.∙ After my 5th week with the company I also took on the role as Scrum Master for the FAS team, which is not a role I have trained in so learnt to do it as I went along.∙ Worked on main product which uses AngularJS and Vue.js and have continually aimed to improve multiple areas of the application codebase.∙ Green fields product work was carried out in Vue.js with unit test coverage at a high level on the server side.∙ Oversaw moving the ProVision Plus codebase from Git web server to GitLab making sure all developers had accounts and were able to get up and running quickly with GitLab. ∙ Documented the merge request creation process, how to use merge requests and code review guidelines.∙ Introduced a GitLab pipeline which runs code quality checks for the client and server codebase.∙ I have Jenkins build experience which has come in handy multiple times in supporting the team when builds have failed. I am always looking at improving and optimizing build jobs for faster feedback. Show less

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

At BNZ I had been given the chance to increase my knowledge in CI/CD and automating builds, testing and deployment. CI/CD is an area I've become further experienced in and have been able to support teams building and deploying their applications.I was given the opportunity to further the work I carried out to onboard services to OpenShift. I wanted to create a set of jobs that would be able to set up a service in OpenShift. I wanted the jobs to be generic enough that any team could use… Show more At BNZ I had been given the chance to increase my knowledge in CI/CD and automating builds, testing and deployment. CI/CD is an area I've become further experienced in and have been able to support teams building and deploying their applications.I was given the opportunity to further the work I carried out to onboard services to OpenShift. I wanted to create a set of jobs that would be able to set up a service in OpenShift. I wanted the jobs to be generic enough that any team could use them, not just teams in a specific domain. The build and deployment pipelines would be generated from Jenkins DSL templates and the OpenShift object manifests generated using Helm making sure they were Kubernetes compliant.Team Clannoli - Services to assist front line staff∙ Supporting Springboot API's and React frontend.∙ Moved teams application code from monolithic Springboot module project to own repo∙ Made it possible for testers to deploy the feature being tested to their own Openshift environment.∙ Moved Openshift pipeline to Jenkins pipeline∙ Supported testers in creating Selenium tests and improved creation of tests using Selenide∙ Provided code reviews and mentorship to help improve their coding skillsTeam Blacksheep - BNZ Authentication Hub∙ Supported Springboot API's and React and Angular frontends∙ Supported making changes to services and infrastructure using Puppet and carrying out releases∙ Moved all Jenkins jobs from old dev instance with manually created jobs to new managed instance with jobs defined as code so creation of jobs are automated.∙ Supported automation tester in creating the infrastructure to test features/components/services using BDD scenarios. The automated testing uses Selenium grid for internal services/UI's and Browserstack for public facing services/UI's.∙ Provided code reviews and mentorship to help improve automation testers coding ability and knowledge and in designing the automation testing framework. Show less

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

I was working as contract developer for the Department of Internal Affairs as part of Te Ara Manaaki, which is about transforming the system of service delivery so that customers can access the services they require how and where they choose. I have been specifically working on digitising Citizenship by Grant.∙ I worked on a Angular 2+ client with a Spring Boot back-end with a contract first approach using Swagger UI. Data is stored in a Mongo DB and the infrastructure is provided by… Show more I was working as contract developer for the Department of Internal Affairs as part of Te Ara Manaaki, which is about transforming the system of service delivery so that customers can access the services they require how and where they choose. I have been specifically working on digitising Citizenship by Grant.∙ I worked on a Angular 2+ client with a Spring Boot back-end with a contract first approach using Swagger UI. Data is stored in a Mongo DB and the infrastructure is provided by Microsoft Azure. VSTS (Azure DevOps) is used to manage the tasks required to complete each sprint, and for CI/CD.∙ Pulled existing code into its own repo so that it could be used as a dependency that could be built and deployed to Nexus. The library included Swagger generated controllers to allow integration with PxPay online payment service.∙ Improved code coverage by adding unit and integration tests wherever I worked on that area of the code. Added integration tests to automate API validation. Show less

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

As a Senior Developer at Stuff I have worked within multiple teams on different projects. I have contributed to enhancements to the CMS, which provides the content to the Stuff site. For over a year I worked with a team looking after video content for the site by integrating the Brightcove player. We also improved the journalists workflow of being able to provide video content for articles. I also worked with a team to improve content curation for the "Homed" section of Stuff and will further… Show more As a Senior Developer at Stuff I have worked within multiple teams on different projects. I have contributed to enhancements to the CMS, which provides the content to the Stuff site. For over a year I worked with a team looking after video content for the site by integrating the Brightcove player. We also improved the journalists workflow of being able to provide video content for articles. I also worked with a team to improve content curation for the "Homed" section of Stuff and will further be looking at using machine learning in providing a smart/automated way of suggesting related articles for sections of the Stuff site.∙ Worked with Video Content Handlers to form a common language to provide scenarios for BDD approach∙ These scenarios were used to drive the development of a video ingestion service to provide video content from Brightcove into our CMS. This significantly reduced the time it took for journalists to add a video to use in an article.∙ Provided guidance and led by example when carrying out our testing approach using Cucumber-JS. On the video ingest project we used TDD to drive the design, which also generated a very high test coverage.∙ We carried out an experiment where for 6 months we took a mobbing approach to our work. The whole team worked together as much as possible on all project work. This was carried on into the next project, which led to a very successful video publication service written in TypeScript.∙ I have been involved in CI/CD using Jenkins to carry out development builds and run our Integration Tests for the legacy CMS system. I have also used Codeship for our smaller services, which has enabled us to own the deployment pipeline and release multiple times in a day to production.∙ I have worked with Serverless Framework to deploy apps to AWS. Used NodeJS, Angular, TypeScript and Docker to provide backend services and web based apps. Worked with Java and Spring as part of the legacy CMS. Show less

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

In this role I have been predominantly involved in the maintenance, design and development of high quality, scalable and robust Java based web applications. I communicated technical concepts to non-technical people. Carried out analysis of existing applications to provide estimates and technical solutions for project work that affected costs and deadlines. Been able to work with a high degree of autonomy and initiative within the role and in projects.∙ Contributing pragmatic solutions… Show more In this role I have been predominantly involved in the maintenance, design and development of high quality, scalable and robust Java based web applications. I communicated technical concepts to non-technical people. Carried out analysis of existing applications to provide estimates and technical solutions for project work that affected costs and deadlines. Been able to work with a high degree of autonomy and initiative within the role and in projects.∙ Contributing pragmatic solutions and technical input to support Project Managers and Business Analysts. ∙ Mentoring junior developers and supporting team members.∙ Peer reviewing code and offering technical advice where I think it is required.∙ Project work estimates and analysis. Documenting changes that may need to be made and in which areas of the application.∙ On-call after-hours support during important deployments or during exams time, one of the busiest times of the year for NZQA.∙ Providing technical support to testers in carrying out their test scripting and application support around functional test environments.∙ Providing technical support to BA’s, Architects and members of the business. Show less