Robert Walsh Email & Phone Number

Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Became the lead of the development of the Core platform - responsible for the development of the secure services that power DIGISEQ's solution. Led and managed a small team of between 2-4 people utilising SCRUM Agile methodology using a Gitflow Workflow and utilising JIRA and confluence for project management.Was the primary developer designing and implementing a solution to integrate with various payment solutions including BanContact and USIO.Spearheaded the development of a fundamental rewrite of the Core platform to ensure compliance with PCI-CP and PCI-DSS standards. This included utilisation of RabbitMQ to provide messaging between high security services and non-secure services.Architected revisions to the Core platform to improve modularity and maintainability – allowing a gradual transition from a monolithic platform to a microservice based architecture.Worked directly with the CTO to architect and develop various systems to meet business needs throughout the lifespan of the businessActively contributed on various discussions on overall business strategy and workflow management, providing a technical and developer perspective on how DIGISEQ can enhance its business.Collaborated with clients and partners to facilitate the integration of their APIs into our Core platformLed a large-scale rework of the legacy Core platform to upgrade to latest tech stacksCollaborated with the DevOps team to integrate a Jenkins deployment pipeline as well as various solutions for deployment to ensure PCI-CP complianceDeveloped cryptographically secure solutions utilising both BouncyCastle and Thales HSMs, with significant experience in symmetric cryptography algorithms such as 3DES and AES, as well as asymmetric cryptography algorithms such as RSA, and Elliptic Curve

Supported (and later lead) the design and development of DIGISEQ's internal systems in Java and other supporting applications in conjunction with the rest of the development team. * Developed the personalisation platform that provisioned NFC passive wearables with payment services* Was the primary developer designing and implementing our solution integrating the MasterCard Digital Enablement Service (MDES) to provide a tokenisation solution* Instrumental in revisions of DIGISEQ's in-house domain specific language utilising ANTLR4

Joined during the company's initial founding to develop the initial core platform for DIGISEQ's servicesRole was supporting the development the development of DIGISEQ's internal systems in Java and other supporting applications in conjunction with the rest of the development team. This involved heavy exposure to industry standards and specifications such as GlobalPlatform and EMV as well as third party hardware and software integration in a high security environment.

Provided Java programming support to first-year students as well as feedback on courseworkIdentified issues in student’s code to provide clear feedback on improvements to be made and how to fix issues

This was a summer internship with the following duties:- Analysed and produced a brief report to the company manager on ways that the company could improve its website page ranking in Google page rankings.- Acquired research skills to understand how Google ranked pages and how to apply this knowledge to the company’s existing web infrastructure.- Trained an administrator in the use of Microsoft Project for task delegation.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Completed

Thesis title: Adapting Compiler Front Ends for Generalised Parsing Description: A generalised parser can in principle generate all.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Computer Science, First Class Honours

Activities and Societies: Secretary of LGBT SocietyMy dissertation project title was "Fractal Patterns using Java"

Education record

Activities and Societies: Student Council Representative