MCSD: Web Applications

MCP Programming C#

AWS Certified Developer – Associate

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

BSc (Hons) Computing

Bachelor of Science (BS)

Designing & documenting core parts of ClearBank’s infrastructure, including the integration of Open Banking specifications. Key driver in innovation by leading technical workshops for developers on both technical & non-technical skills. Responsible for delivery of multiple scrum teams. Facilitated customer integrations with technical workshops & planning events.

Key technologies: C#, ASP.Net Core, Azure Service Fabric (Azure & On-Premise), Azure Service Bus, Azure Blob Storage, Cosmos DB, Redis, XUnit, .Net Core, VSTS YML Builds, Git, TFSVC, Elasticsearch, FluentAssertions

Lead Architect

Designed the initial architecture for the FX & Payouts teams, helping to win key tier 1 merchants. Key member of cross-organisation architecture review panel focusing on security, performance and reliability. Initiated a organisational level project to massively improve not only the speed of development for 10+ teams, but decentralising key parts of the business - leading from a technical perspective. Helped multiple teams proof of concept new technologies designed to work at large scale. Introduced DataDog for metrics and logs. Helped design and implement a Private Certificate Authority for end to end application SSL. Created an engineering rss channel for company wide engineering development and mentoring multiple engineering leads into a secure by design architecture approach.

Key technologies: C#, .Net Core, AWS (SQS/SNS/Fargate/EC2/PCA ACM/Lambda/S3), Microsoft Orleans, Redis, XUnit, Git, Github, FluentAssertions, SQL Server

Lead Engineer

Led the cost optimisations of cloud infrastructure with over 75% improvement on spend. Drove a shift toward more frequent, predictable release cycles, introducing a more agile delivery model across engineering teams. Defined and implemented reliability and operational strategies that reduced production incidents from weekly occurrences.

Chief Technology Officer

Responsible for migrating the existing crawling platform from its original Rackspace foundations onto AWS. Spiked numerous messaging technologies to verify throughput requirements are met. Troubleshooting performance issues and designing strategies for future growth. Ongoing troubleshooting of production services with managed memory leaks, including applying fixes to upstream open source projects.

Key Technologies: C#, ASP.Net Core, .Net Core, Docker, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, AppMetrics, AWS SQS, RabbitMQ, Prometheus Metrics, Graylog, Elasticsearch, Eventstore, CQRS

Senior Software Engineer (Contract)

Responsible for providing technical direction for multiple engineering teams. Designed & implemented architectures for the auditing/security of 50+ Github Organisations and our internal developer portal based on Backstage. Leading the rollout of on demand AWS Organisational Accounts. Key contributor to several internally packages for observability & security - helping reduce the on-ramp for over 20 engineering teams.

Key technologies: C#, .Net Core, AWS (EventBridge/EKS/Lambda/S3), Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, XUnit, Git, Github, FluentAssertion, Backstage

Principal Engineer

Responsible for delivering high-quality test-driven API’s, refactoring a large monolith into hundreds of smaller independent micro-services & provided architectural insight on best practises. Instrumental in re-designing the internals of the auditing systems to ensure longevity of the system. Revamped the existing workflow engine to aid with scalability of the system in the future.

Key technologies: C#, MVC, Web Api, Azure Service Fabric (Azure & On-Premise), Azure Service Bus, Azure Blob Storage, NSpec, Moq, Automoq, Elasticsearch

Senior Software Developer (Contract)

Worked with companies of various sizes (local island businesses to FTSE 100 companies). Responsible for product life cycle post-sales, including regular client demonstrations. Provided continual on-going maintenance & support. Occasionally contracted out for consultancy along with senior infrastructure engineers.

Key Technologies: VB.Net, Windows Forms, Dapper, SQL Server 2008, Android, SOAP, Windows Small Business Server

Software Developer

Responsible for designing and implementing off-the-shelf solutions for SME’s. Helped introduce an agile process and mentoring of developers at all levels through a concept called Dev Lunch. Actively involved in coding standards debates with all teams and training developers in basic unit testing techniques.

Key Technologies: C#, ASP.NET MVC 5 / Web API 2, SAP Business One (v9 / HANA), MS Test, Moq, WCF, Team Foundation Server

Software Engineer

Helped guide multiple teams on best practices for code & infrastructure. Designed and set up AWS Account infrastructure with Terraform automation. Reduced build times by over 50%. Updated coding standards, including logging, testing & API Versioning. Helped shape company processes such as incident response and OKRs.

Key Technologies: C#, .Net Core, AWS (SQS/SNS/Fargate/ECS/ACM/Lambda/S3), Apache Ignite (GridGain), XUnit, Git, Github, FluentAssertions, MySQL

Developing integrations for a variety of web services including Hubspot. Designed & implemented branching strategy & continuous deployment, with checked gates, through all environments. Mentored colleagues in best practises with dev-ops tools and coding practises such as the SOLID principals.

Key technologies: C#, ASP.NET MVC, Sitefinity, Entity Framework 6, SQL Server, GIT, Teamcity, Octopus Deploy, JIRA, Bitbucket, Hubspot, FakeItEasy, Fluent Assertions

Software Developer (Contract)

Designed and implemented backend services in .NET with a focus on performance, scalability, and operational robustness on Blockchains. Led technical design and delivery of core platform components supporting production systems. Worked closely with product and engineering teams to ship complex features under tight delivery timelines.

Principle C# Engineer

Used a polyglot of on premise and cloud-based technologies to provide internal and external services. Instrumental in adopting high-availability to an internal web cluster, failover to the database tier and extra security through a HTTPS only approach. Helped re-design legacy architectures, introduced the idea of infrastructure as code, overhauled internal CI environment and mentored junior developers.

Key technologies: C#, ASP.NET MVC Core, Azure (Service Bus / Table Storage / Blob Storage / Cloud Services / Web Jobs), Entity Framework 6, Dapper, Moq, Fluent Assertions, XUnit, SQL Server 2012, Windows Server 2012, GIT, Teamcity, Octopus Deploy, JIRA

.Net Developer

Responsible for end-to-end delivery of CMS based projects for high profile clients. Driven the adaptation of agile & software development best practises including daily stand-ups and code reviews. Also responsible for mentorship of mid-level & junior developers.

Key technologies: C#, ASP.NET MVC, Episerver, Entity Framework 6, SQL Server, Dotmailer, GIT, TFS, Visual Studio Team Services, Octopus Deploy

Senior Software Developer

Architected & implemented a next generation RESTful banking API based on the ISO20022 standard. Leader of multiple scrum teams. UK representative for the ISO working group for financial services APIs. Redesigned the core telemetry system to correlate actions throughout the entire distributed system, from origin to termination.

Key technologies: C#, ASP.Net Core, Azure Service Fabric (Azure & On-Premise), Azure Service Bus, Azure Blob Storage, XUnit, .Net Core, VSTS YML Builds, Git, TFSVC, Elasticsearch, FluentAssertions

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