Simon Chivers Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

Campbell, Ca, Us

Campbell, Ca, Us

London, Gb

Core Exchange Technology

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Senior Java developer working in Derivatives and Back Office Systems

Zurich, Ch

• Worked on the re-architecture of the bank’s contingent liabilities risk platform, which calculates the potential cost to the bank in the event of rating downgrades• Responsible for the development of the calculation engine, and re-usable frameworks and tools for data sourcing, reconciliation and analysis.• Developed a reusable base server framework that integrates with the firm-wide authentication and authorisation platforms, using Spring Boot and Spring Security• The solution was deployed to production Two months ahead of schedule, and all new code had at least 80% test coverage• Replaced complex Informatica, scripted and PL/SQL data sourcing solutions with a common Java based framework that improved on accuracy, extensibility and performance, and greatly reduced the overhead of on-boarding additional data sources.

New York, New York, Us

Member of the global derivatives operations technology shared services team working across multiple projects including:* A high priority project to improve regulatory reporting capabilities built on Hadoop and Elasticsearch platforms. My responsibilities involved uplifting the early poc into a production grade system, adding new features, ingesting new data sources, improving performance and resiliency and providing L1 support for the global team.* The development of a horizontally scalable DB2 backed document / blob store to persist FpML derivative contract event data for OLTP flows - which had outgrown Sybase ASE capabilities.* Economic Data Service - a REST and DF (GS framework built on Tibco RV) service for querying economic fields of contract events. Developed new features, and provided support for client teams during UAT testing cycles.* Developed and maintained CBM / Odyssey - contract event processing framework for Equity, Rates, Credit and Mortgage derivatives.

London, England, Gb

• Tech lead on several high priority Greenfield projects, including: o Integrating real time customer event data to a sports book promotional system o Integrating customer data from a data virtualisation layer into a Salesforce environment used by the key account managers. o A business facing monitoring dashboard displaying health of back office processes.• Contributed to addressing technical debt, and refactoring in-house libraries to improve re-usability and reduce effort required to perform common tasks (Atom feed generation and consumption for example)• Developed an event-driven integration framework using JMS (SonicMQ) and Atom Feed messaging components on top of a RESTful SOA.• Worked in a mature Agile environment using aspects of Scrum and Kanban, and implemented Agile software development techniques, such as TDD, CI and Pair Programming.• Advised fellow team members of best practices, potential pitfalls and error resolution with multi-threaded code.

* Responsible for the development of the middle office platform, providing the capture and routing of many voice and electronically traded OTC derivatives including FX, FXO, CDS, Repos, Fixed Income and Interest Rate Derivatives.* Part of the Engineering team, tasked with addressing technical debt with the re-architecture of legacy core middle office systems, and improving the process around the build and release of the platform.* Responsible for setting the coding standards, and reviewing code submitted by the applications team, ensuring the design and implementation is in-line with the desired technical direction.* Improved the continuous integration solution, introducing Jenkins to automate test, build and release cycles, and replaced Ant with Maven for the building of all components.* Redeveloped several legacy server-side middle office components, utilising a test driven development approach, and introducing Spring to replace home-rolled xml based configuration library.* Mentored junior members of the team, and contributed towards architectural decisions for Greenfield projects, working closely with BAs and project managers. * Introduced a wiki to improve and promote dissemination of technical information within the middle office team.* Involved in the team’s recruitment process, wrote and conducted written and verbal technical interviews.

Redwood Shores, Ca, Us

* Worked on a market-leading Incentive Compensation Management product with a strong financial client-base including RBS, Nationwide and Bank of America.* Led development of a greenfield SOA layer using REST, Spring, Hibernate and EhCache.* Introduced TDD concepts to the company and presented the concept of mocking (using EasyMock) to development team.* Worked in an Agile environment, utilising Scrum methodology.* Development of a greenfield portal front-end using Liferay and JSF 2.0

* Design and development of financial derivative middle-office systems, specialising in FX Options.* Systems integration using JMS* Design, development and maintenance of web applications.* Utilised test driven development approach.* Introduced unit tests as part of the continous integration process.* Greenfield development of FX Options trade feed, implemented as a document first SOA using XML schema and Spring-WS.* Migration of existing web platform from Weblogic to Glassfish.* Design and development of rich clients using Swing.* Introduced iBatis and Spring for DAO layer of new developments.

Maidenhead, Berkshire, Gb

* Customer facing consultancy role, based on a blue-chip client site (Vodafone UK)* Developed Java code, following designs produced by system architects. * Created Unit and Integration test code to satisfy test-plans.* Supported external testing and infastructure teams* Integrated with back-office systems using JMS via a Tibco SOA. * Peer reviewed code.* Developed and deployed EJB 2.1 MDBs on a Weblogic 8.1 environment.* Developed contract-first web services using AXIS and Castor.

* Designed and developed software for a Java platform hosting popular video streaming websites for the sports and entertainment industries.* Developed web applications and components using JSP, Javascript, AJAX, Struts and Servlets.* Retrofitted Hibernate to the platform for ORM.* Liaised with customers during development and training tasks.* Collaborated with Support and Infastructure teams.* Developed and supported highly concurrent, time-critical content delivery systems (SMS and video syndication systems)

Maidenhead, Berkshire, Gb

* Designed, developed and maintained reservation software for major travel industry clients, including BAA.* Delivered a proof-of-concept project to update the look and feel of the legacy reservation system, utilising Java, JSP and Struts.* Responsible for the installation of software solutions remotely, and on-site.* Visited customer sites to provide training on new software.

Oulu, Oulu, Fi

Developed software systems in Business Basic.Practiced QA review and testing procedures.