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• Staff Backend Software Engineer, Signal Ocean

  Sep, 2022 - Present

  A Rich Mix of Shipping, Computing, and Scientific Endeavor. Signal Ocean empowers data-driven decision-making for charterers, brokers, and owners. Seamlessly integrate proprietary commercial information with a wide range of curated data for unparalleled situational awareness and a competitive edge. https://www.thesignalgroup.com

  • Led the initiative to enhance security and streamline configuration management across all development teams by championing the adoption of Azure App Configuration and Azure Key Vault, designed the implementation strategy, and oversaw the deployment process, resulting in improved efficiency, security, and collaboration company-wide.

  • Spearheaded the initiative to update existing Service Fabric actors and services to utilize Managed Identity authentication, enhancing system security and simplifying identity management across the cloud infrastructure.

  • Developed a custom refactoring tool utilizing Roslyn API to automate the migration of projects from Newtonsoft.Json to System.Text.Json, significantly enhancing performance.

  • Led the design and development of key data acquisition and processing projects, significantly contributing to their success and innovation.

• Senior Software Engineer, Tycoon

  Jul, 2021 - Jul, 20221 year

  Crypto trading on autopilot.

  • Took over the product from the remote-based development team and oversaw the building of a new development team

  • Architected a redesign of the solution from a monolith to a scalable, cloud-based, microservices solution

  • Migrated CI/CD from simple GitHub scripts to Azure DevOps solution based on infrastructure-as-code (Bicep) and containers with multi-stage releases

  • Developed the shared nuget libraries used by all other developers simplifying and automating framework interactions including; Azure Active Directory (AAD) authorization and authentication, service-to-service gRPC authorization and authentication using the AAD, Azure App Configuration with push-notifications, logging with integrated OpenTelemetry distributed tracing

• Senior Backend Developer, BetPlanet

  Dec, 2020 - Jul, 20217 months

  BetPlanet is a new and ambitious sports betting and gambling company.

  • Worked directly with the CTO.

  • Pioneered the adoption of the Dapr framework

  • Responsible for the design, development, deployment and maintenance of several key projects.

• Backend Team Coordinator, Playtech

  Nov, 2016 - Dec, 20204 years 1 month

  World's largest online gaming software supplier traded on the London Stock Exchange Main Market, offering cutting-edge, value added solutions to the industry's leading operators

  • Design and develop a highly usable, and performant cross-platform microservices framework for high load environments built over gRPC and deployed to Kubernetes.

  • Created multiple development tools used by other developers in the company.

  • Contributed to multiple projects backend and frontend development.

• Senior Software Developer, Dexterity Solutions Ltd

  Jan, 2011 - Nov, 20165 years 10 months

  Technology consulting, software development and business solutions

  • Responsible for the full development cycle from analysis and specification to design and development to deployment and support.

  • Oversaw and delivered multiple mission-critical projects to clients from a wide range of industries, including pharmaceutical, shipping, financial, law and others.

• Software Developer, AccountsTech

  Aug, 2007 - Jan, 20113 years 5 months

  Development and maintenance of accounting and POS software

  • Development and maintenance of accounting and POS software

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