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Work Experience

• Senior Contractor, Sky

  Apr, 2026 - Present

  Senior developer on a strategic programme to replace Sky Italia's legacy OSS (operations support system) with an in-house platform. Owned the provider abstraction layer, building Kotlin services with http4k that integrate with the APIs of Italy's three main wholesale providers, and using JMS messaging to decouple the platform from each provider's differences behind a single, consistent interface. Delivered on schedule against a very tight deadline, enabling the business to move off the legacy solution as planned

  • Microservices

  • Kotlin

  • Http4k

• Senior Contractor, HSBC

  May, 2025 - Dec, 20257 months

  • Collaborated with teams across the globe to integrate HSBC's structured product platform into a vendor's quoting system.
  • Spearheaded a custom functional and monitoring toolkit that identified bottlenecks pre-launch, ensuring 100% stability during the go-live phase.

  • Microservices

  • Kotlin / Ktor

  • Java / Spring / SpringBoot

• Senior Contractor, CitiBank (through Juxt)

  Jan, 2022 - Apr, 20253 years 2 months

  • Modernized legacy data system by replacing a high-scale key-value database with a scalable microservices suite deployed via Kubernetes.
  • Eliminated long-standing technical debt by migrating time-dependent legacy systems to a cloud-native internal banking platform, all while growth on the existing platform was continuing to grow.

  • Kubernetes

  • Microservices

  • Kotlin / HTTP4k

  • Clojure

• Senior Contractor, HSBC (through TekSystems)

  Apr, 2021 - Jan, 20229 months

  Expanded the Prime Brokerage platform’s capabilities to support U.S. Arranged Financing, enabling the business to capture new market share within North American jurisdictions.

  • Hazelcast

  • Microservices

  • Java

  • Spring / SpringBoot

• Senior Contractor, Delta Capita

  Apr, 2020 - Mar, 20211 year

  Engineered a library of shared services and UI components, enabling rapid prototyping and reducing development cycles for new client requirements.

  • Serverless Message Driven architecture (Amazon Lambda, Amazon SQS)

  • S3 immutable storage for business data.

  • Angular / React monorepo using nx.js to combine the components into one platform user interface.

  • NodeJS express apps that function as the lambda code

  • Javascript, Typescript, ExpressJS, Angular, RXJS

• Senior Java Contractor, Credit Suisse

  Jun, 2018 - Mar, 20201 year 10 months

  Developed the workflow based structured product lifecycle orchestration app using Flowable from scratch. (BPMN)

  • Provided the orchestration that tied the individual micro services into a system for documenting, costing and selling structued products.

  • Built the new system product store for capturing product state.

  • Pushing forward with new ways to test and coordinate microservices within our group.

  • Pushing forward with new ways to orchestrate our deployments with our group.

  • Maintaining existing structured product software solutions

  • Java, Kotlin, SpringBoot, BPMN

• Senior Java Contractor, BSKYB

  Jan, 2018 - May, 20184 months

  • Engineering new customer flows within the online video platform authentication system
  • High emphasis on monitoring and scalablity

  • Java, Dropwizzard, Ratpack, Kubernetes

• Senior Java Contractor, Delta Capita

  Jun, 2017 - Dec, 20176 months

  Automated reporting system to replace manual workflows for the supply chain finance system with third parties.

• Senior Java Contractor, Credit Suisse

  May, 2016 - May, 20171 year

  Develop a new application to generate and manage the lifecycle for KID (Key Information Documents) for Credit Suisse's structured products.

  • Kotlin

• Technical Lead, GFT for Deutsche Bank

  Jan, 2016 - May, 20164 months

  Working alongside DB employees in Romania to meet a deadline for a new counterparty management app within the bank. Working cross concerns to get the software delivered

  • React

• Senior Java Contractor, Credit Suisse

  Nov, 2014 - Dec, 20151 year 1 month

  Develop a new application for pricing parameters, the application acts as a rule repository and executor for rules written by business users, with high traffic expectations

  • Kotlin

  • Angular

• CTO, FightMe

  Jan, 2013 - Oct, 20141 year 9 months

  Leading a small team to develop the FightMe web, ios and androids apps. Hands on developing the front and backends for the site

  • NodeJS

  • Angular

• Contractor, Wiley

  Jun, 2012 - Dec, 20126 months

  Develop the Cochrane Search app for public use, that queries across years of medical research publications stored in a marklogic database

  • Backbone

  • Spring

  • MarkLogic

• Contractor, BSKYB

  Jun, 2011 - May, 201211 months

  Develop support applications for Sky broadband's roll out of FTTC products. Used by the customer support teams within sky.

  • Utterly Idle/Totally Lazy (Functional Java libraries) Rest

• Senior Developer, Yazino

  Jul, 2010 - May, 201110 months

  MMO Online Casino

  • Gigaspaces in memory grid framework

  • RabbitMQ

  • CHEF

• Java Developer, BSKYB

  Jun, 2009 - Jun, 20101 year 1 month

  Extend SkyID online login portal with new services and features

  • Grails

• Java Developer, Temenos

  Jun, 2007 - May, 20102 years 11 months

  Develop core components used by wealth management system

• E-Business Application Developer, CERN

  Jun, 2004 - May, 20072 years 11 months

• E-Business Application Developer Technical Student, CERN

  Sep, 2002 - Aug, 200311 months

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