Adam Short Email & Phone Number

Greater London, England, United Kingdom

In addition to existing responsibilities, also leading the general direction of the backend microservices, ensuring compatibility, security, and establishing conventions. Taking a higher level architectural view of our systems and how they integrate together whilst staying decoupled from third party services. Maintaining a complete system view of entity relationships and how they map across microservices.

Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Line manager for three developers helping with onboarding, mentoring, and being on hand to help with any issues or requests.Also developing my own communication and interpersonal skills, giving reports a safe space to share concerns and feedback whilst encouraging them to grow in the direction they want to.

Contributing towards expanding both internal and external tools to make ordering and managing a car lease easier.Helping transition a monolith application towards microservices to promote faster feature development and better isolation of concerns.Encourage code standards and type-safety.

Owned DevOps for the proprietary Windows application team.This included migrating from a flaky, complicated CI approach to astreamlined pipeline using AppVeyor custom images and hosting them onAzure.After building a custom Windows image and setting up AppVeyor to hostthis on our own Azure subscription, every test run would be in a cleanstate improving test reliability tenfold.It also had the added benefit of saving the company money by notrequiring a 24/7 machine to be open to process the test runs, andinstead only used a virtual machine when necessary.Simplified development environment by updating the codebase to work withVisual Studio 2019.This involved updating the C# language version to 7 and refactoringcode to conform to it.Updating the build tool sets, reducing build time of the application frommultiple minutes to one minute.Enabling developers to simply import a configuration file to installrequired dependencies; saving hours of finding, downloading, andinstalling them.Became the enforcer of code standards and quality by implementingautomatic code formatting and encouraging developers to use designpatterns such as the factory pattern, visitor pattern, and dependencyinjection.Migrated my team from Trello to Jira and implemented automations of theSoftware Development Life Cycle saving Sales and Onboarding teams fromneeding to chase for ticket progress.Mentored and helped onboard new developers and team members withfrequent pair programming sessions and being responsive to any question.

London, United Kingdom

Overhauled old, complex UI code with a programmatic library that convertsJSON to WinForms. This meant that almost any UI changes a client wantedcould not only be achievable, but achievable in 10% of the time of the oldcode.Overhauled test suite to ensure test isolation and stability, saving countlesshours of having to rerun transiently failing tests and the development teamfrustration.Became the go-to for leading technical requirements gathering with clientshelping them to capture and process required data efficiently and accurately.Wrote multiple REST and SOAP integrations with various CRM platforms suchas Mulesoft, Heroku, and Responsys.Became the expert on speeding up time-per-transaction by helping clientswith prepopulation of known customer data through database (SQL/ODBC)connections, API calls, and log file parsing.Was the first point of call when it came to making changes on what data andhow the Windows application sends it to the cloud application.Worked with the support team to diagnose and fix production issues raised byclients in a timely manner.Used GCP logging and bigquery tools to help cloud engineers solve issueswith data and requests being sent from the Windows application.Wrote extensive documentation in the form of a product manual that couldbe shared internally and externally in a clear, but concise format.Collaborated with teams in time zones around the world.

London, United Kingdom

Developed micro-sites/campaigns for numerous clients.Developed a SaaS CMS platform to manage campaigns.