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Manchester Area, United Kingdom

Salford, England, United Kingdom

Working through Equal Experts:Implement a person data matching system (Entity Matching) to link data records across unrelated databases.Data was sourced from multiple head of duty databasesData from multiple head of duty systems was pipelined using a custom built ETL solution taking input from multiple sources.Ingested data was cleansed, transformed, matched and uploaded to a Neo4j instance for searching.API was developed in Spring Boot querying Neo4j.… Show more Working through Equal Experts:Implement a person data matching system (Entity Matching) to link data records across unrelated databases.Data was sourced from multiple head of duty databasesData from multiple head of duty systems was pipelined using a custom built ETL solution taking input from multiple sources.Ingested data was cleansed, transformed, matched and uploaded to a Neo4j instance for searching.API was developed in Spring Boot querying Neo4j. Sample application for testing and demos utilised HTMX. Show less

Salford, England, United Kingdom

Working through Equal Experts:Design and implement a tax investigation system to extract data from structured and unstructured data sources such as tax returns and other submissions. Data was pipelined through custom built ETL monolith (later split into several microservices) from multiple sources including Kafa streams, XML documents, structured and unstructured PDFs, relational databases.Ingested data was cleansed, transformed and augmented with other data sources… Show more Working through Equal Experts:Design and implement a tax investigation system to extract data from structured and unstructured data sources such as tax returns and other submissions. Data was pipelined through custom built ETL monolith (later split into several microservices) from multiple sources including Kafa streams, XML documents, structured and unstructured PDFs, relational databases.Ingested data was cleansed, transformed and augmented with other data sources before being loaded into a Solr database for querying.Frontend query building application developed in Vue.js Show less

Manchester Area, United Kingdom

Short term contract, designed and built a data pipeline system to produce consolidated feeds of live depot, product and fleet data for other departments to consume.Enhanced the fleet management system, designing application usability/functionality and implementing frontend and backend code.Helped the team on their agile journey by streamlining their working practices and improving throughput.

Manchester Area, United Kingdom

Working through Equal Experts:Developed a suite of Twitter compliance microservices that ensured that all held customer tweets could be validated against Twitter’s compliance rules on an ongoing basis via a firehose stream.Migrated a Cassandra database from an older version and replaced old styles secondary indexes with a better solution. This included coming up with a plan to do this without any down time and a way to verify the migration.Consolidated multiple backend… Show more Working through Equal Experts:Developed a suite of Twitter compliance microservices that ensured that all held customer tweets could be validated against Twitter’s compliance rules on an ongoing basis via a firehose stream.Migrated a Cassandra database from an older version and replaced old styles secondary indexes with a better solution. This included coming up with a plan to do this without any down time and a way to verify the migration.Consolidated multiple backend REST services behind a gateway service to make it more reliable for form end clients to call. Consulted/Improved the Amplience development process, highlighting bottlenecks in the team and encouraging them to use agile/scrum in a more pragmatic way. This resulted in them getting more stuff ‘done’ and in to live. Show less

Manchester Area, United Kingdom

Rideways was a startup pre-booked ground travel booking engine and aggregator, part of Booking.com. The system was made up of many different services including; pricing, search, booking and third party supplier integration. The services talked either using REST or Rabbit MQ via Apache Camel. Modified and enhanced the existing many layers and components of the application to allow automated booking amendments to save money over the existing manual process.Analysed requirements… Show more Rideways was a startup pre-booked ground travel booking engine and aggregator, part of Booking.com. The system was made up of many different services including; pricing, search, booking and third party supplier integration. The services talked either using REST or Rabbit MQ via Apache Camel. Modified and enhanced the existing many layers and components of the application to allow automated booking amendments to save money over the existing manual process.Analysed requirements, designed and implemented solutions to enhance the searching and price engines to allow new pricing models which enabled new contracts to be won.Advised and guided on how to use Spring Boot for the newer microservices that were being developed with the company. Show less

Warrington, England, United Kingdom

Worked on building an ambitious new warehouse management system from the ground up, handling every aspect from goods in, order picking, packing, dispatching.The system was event driven, broken up in to many different microservices, deployed on to AWS using Hazelcast for persistence. Warehouse operatives were instructed on their actions using a front end mobile web app developed in AngularJS talking to a REST service backed by Spring State Machine.

Newton Le Willows

Embeded with Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank working on large financial systems dealing wth stock positions and commodities.