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Ipswich, England, United Kingdom

Ipswich, England, United Kingdom

Ipswich, England, United Kingdom

Working on large projects adopting a Microservice architecture in AWS.Adopting the use of the following technologies/methodologies: Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Netflix Projects (including Zuul and Feign), Docker, AWS, Groovy, Spock, Cucumber, TDD, BDD, CI & Automated Deployments, Git, Contract First API development with Swagger

Senior Java Developer delivering an internal mobile games test platform.Adopted the use of the following technologies: Spring Boot, Spock, JBehave, Sikuli, Appium, Selendroid, IOSDriverIntroducing new and best development practices to the team: Clean Code, Test Driven Development, CI, SonarQube.

• Java• Groovy• Java frameworks: Spring, Jersey, CXF, Axis2, EJB2, Hibernate, Freemarker, JDBC, XML-RPC, JSP• Testing and static analysis tools: Spock, JUnit, jBehave, Mockito, SoapUI, Cobertura, Checkstyle, Findbugs• Continuous Integration, Build and Code Repository Tools: Hudson/Jenkins, Cruise Control, Gradle, Ant, Maven, Subversion, Visual Source Safe, Nexus• Application servers: Weblogic 8.1 & 10.3, Apache Tomcat, Oracle Application Server• Database experience: MongoDB, Oracle 9i & 11g• Virtualisation: VMWare, Amazon Web Services• Experienced in Agile projects• Strong communication skills• Adaptive to change• Strong analytical and problem solving skills

Rebuild of live ticketing system to provide the customer with a more maintainable, cost effective and extendable platform.• Configuration and customisation of ForgeRock’s Identity and Access management products; (OpenDJ and OpenAM)• Developing services in a FuseESB environment, using Apache Camel and following enterprise integration patterns.• Persistence with JPA and Hibernate on top of a MySQL database.• Test driven development using Groovy, Spock and Mockito.• Configured Continuous Integration environment, including tools such as Jenkins and Sonar.• CentOS development VMs built using Vagrant and Chef.• Front end JavaScript testing using Jasmine.• Facilitated end user workshops.

Worked as a Java Developer on a range of projects for O2.Simplification and security enhancement of customer credential handling, access and registration platforms.Building integration test framework for both legacy and new eCommerce applications.Agile project delivering a Spring MVC application supporting a marketing campaign.Enhancements and service improvements to business critical payments platform.6 month period in applications team supporting O2 platforms.

Joined Serengeti Systems as a graduate developer straight from university. Quickly evolved into customer facing Technical Consultant for the well established document management company.• Involved in software deployments, configuration and training all over England and Scotland.• Experience with various Oracle products: Oracle Application Server, Oracle Databases, Content Management SDK (CMSDK), Application Express, SQL Developer.• Primary focus on pubic sector clients, mainly education.• Organised and conducted software demonstrations to potential clients.• Involved with J2EE application development and debugging.