My interests are programming, rowing, gaming and podcasts of varying topics.
I enjoy Bioware, Blizzard and Ubisoft games, such as Mass Effect, Heroes of the Storm, KOTOR series and the Assassin's Creed series.
Currently reading:
Past read books:
- Dependency Injection Principles Practices and Patterns
- The Art of Unit Testing
- SOA Patterns
- C# in Depth, 4th Edition
- Forces of Nature, Brian Cox
- Cosmos Queries, Neil Degreass Tyson
Events
- Agile Tour London 2018 [Attended]
- Dreamhack, Jönköping, Sweden. 2018 [Attended]
- EGX, 2019 [Cancelled]
- Twitchcon Europe 2019 [Cancelled]
Career
Engineering Lead, I.C.I.S RELX (2022 - Present)
- Design and facilitate the delivery of Product data via APIs using .NET, OpenAPI, APIGEE, Kafka & Snowflake
- .NET6+, Docker, K8s, GitLab, GitHub, Terraform
Principal Software Engineer, I.C.I.S RELX (2021 - 2022)
- Supporting the data transformation project with Apache Kafka
- Working with stakeholders and technology to create roadmaps and technical decisions
- Investigating business components that need review, upgrading and modernisation
- POC work for strategies to integrate Apache Kakfa with databases and CMS systems
- POC work for .NET code generation and streamlined development processes
- R&D and POCs for latest technologies, frameworks and trends within the industry to ensure the business stays current within technology
- .NET6, Docker, K8s, PostgreSQL, GitLab CI, TeamCity, Terraform
Senior Software Engineer, I.C.I.S RELX (2020 - 2021)
- Data Catalogue integration & reference Data management
- .NET CMS Management for reference data used within the business
- Kafka integration and POC work
- .NET modernisation to .NET 6+
- Container deployments with Helm, Docker & EKS K8s
- Supporting and building GitLab CICD, TeamCity, Terraform pipelines
Senior/Lead Software Engineer, XpertHR RELX (2015 - 2020)
- Platform transformation for all our products with Windows Docker containers
- A new rewrite modernising gender pay gap and more
- Worked on upgrading several products within the XpertHR brand
- ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Core, Angular, Docker, TeamCity
Software Developer, Geeks (2013 – 2015)
- Worked on multiple applications for various clients
- Use of M# DSL for code generation
- .NET Framework & .NET Core MVC, ASP.NET WebForms, .NET Framework, ADO.NET, TPL, jQuery, LESS
Analyst Programmer, Travel Network Group (2011 – 2012)
- Policy / Insurance Generation for TTNG Travel Members
- API Integration with GDS Providers for packaging various products together such as Cruises & Hotels.
- ASP.NET MVC 4, NHibernate, Entity Framework, Spring.NET & Ninject, .NET TPL, SOAP/XML, jQuery, HTML
- Selenium Web Driver Testing with .NET using Chrome, Firefox and IE.
Workshop Assistant, Kingston University (2010 – 2011)
Workshop assistant and exam invigilator for first year students for Ruby on Rails.
Education
Kingston University, London (2009 - 2013) - Software Engineering (BSc Honours Degree, 1st Class).