Professional summary
I'm an experienced developer / SRE with just over 9 years of professional experience, committed to maintaining cutting edge technical skills and up-to-date industry knowledge. I'm eager to learn and always after new exciting opportunities and challenges.
Experience
: Tech Lead and Senior Developer at Government Digital Service
- Planned, Prioritised and Built various components for tenants of GOV.UK PaaS and Build & Run teams
- Worked with Product Managers, User Researchers, UI and Content Designers to set out deadlines and prioritise work to deliver on user needs and various projects.
- Worked closely with users and tenants, helping the adaptation of the platform and establishing better practices and technical directions.
- Developed GOV.UK PaaS and Build & Run processes with the use of Terraform, AWS, Concourse, Kubernetes, CloudFoundry, Bosh, YAML, Go, Shell Scripts, Postgres
- Developed web applications for GOV.UK PaaS tenants with the use of Node.js, TypeScript, Sinatra, JS, Webpack
- Worked with Secure Continuous Delivery system using Git and GPG encryption to ensure integrity of developer commits prior to deployment
- Line managed and mentored colleagues through career progression
- Troubleshoot complex network and systems issues
- Actively patched various CVE's
- Did heavy pair programming in order to spread the knowledge
- Presented and demonstrated at show and tells / knowledge shares
- Been heavily involved in team progression and well being
- Worked in an Agile - Kanban environment
- Worked with stages of Planing, Doing, Reviewing and Approving of each task
- Used ticketing system Pivotal Tracker for project management
: Frontend Developer at FLIP Sports
- Worked on a rewards system with the use of Angular, Ionic, JWT, OIDC, Python, AWS, Postgres
- Delivered services in a form of REST APIs, Web Applications, Metric collectors
- Mainly focussed on the Frontend aspect of the projects
- Helped out with certain python micro services
- Helped out with PHP projects
- Used ticketing system JIRA for project management
: Developer at HurstDEV
- Worked with variety of clients on different needs, solutions and technologies
- Been able to choose a stack for each project to satisfy needs
- Worked with PHP, MySQL, Laravel, CakePHP, jQuery, Node.js, Gulp, Grunt, Ansible, Vagrant, NGINX, Ubuntu Server, Puppet, Shell Scripts
- Delivered services in a form of REST APIs, eCommerce Stores, CMS, Web Applications, Chat
- Helped out junior members of the team in progression
- Helped out in recruitment process
- Solved interesting problems to satisfy clients needs
- Been on call for certain clients
- Used ticketing systems Codebase and JIRA for project management
: Junior Web Developer at Surreal Creative
- Worked with variety of clients on different needs, solutions and technologies
- Worked with PHP, MySQL, CodeIgniter, Laravel, JavaScript, jQuery, Vagrant, Puppet, Chef
- Solved interesting problems to satisfy client needs
- Used ticketing system Pivotal Tracker, Codebase and Bootcamp for project management
: Extended Diploma in IT at Newcastle College
- Worked on Exciting modules:
- Unit 1: Communication and Employability Skills for IT
- Unit 2: Computer Systems
- Unit 3: Information Systems
- Unit 4: Impact of the Use of IT on Business Systems
- Unit 5: Managing Networks
- Unit 6: Software Design and Development
- Unit 7: Organisational Systems Security
- Unit 8: e-Commerce
- Unit 9: Computer Networks
- Unit 10: Communication Technologies
- Unit 11: Systems Analysis and Design
- Unit 12: IT Technical Support
- Unit 13: IT Systems Troubleshooting and Repair
- Did few projects in PHP on the side in exchange for games
- Local Game Shop website
- A tool to generate websites for my class colleagues to pass their modules
- Completed with an impressive result of Triple Distinction (D*DD)
Hobbies & Interests
IT, Technology, Software Development, Gaming, Open Source, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, comic books.
Golang; Frontend NE - conferences and monthly based meet ups.