Experience

Placecube

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• DevOps Engineer

  • Jul 2021 - Present



Keyloop

• United Kingdom
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior devops engineer

  • Mar 2021 - Jun 2021



Symbox, a 10Pearls Company

• United Kingdom
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technical Architect

  • Jan 2014 - Mar 2021

  Symbox develop a market leading Business Process Management platform for the telecoms and media sector, clients include: Vodafone, MTN, Ooredoo, Red Bee Media & AMC networks. ● Establish and manage the entire software development process and tooling ● Embed DevOps ecosystem and workflow ● Lead the transition of SCVC from SVN to GIT and Gitlab ● Oversee the entire migration of cloud server infrastructure from Rackspace to AWS ● Demonstrate strong technical knowledge by adopting RDS for both MySQL & Oracle Symbox BPM deployments ● Incorporation of Terraform and Ansible IAC for cloud infrastructure management and provisioning, as well as Prometheus and Grafana for ops monitoring and alerting ● Integrated ELK stack for centralised log collection, compliance and monitoring ● Stabilised and bundled Perl CPAN dependencies ● Continuous integration with tooling for building, packaging and deploying ● Containerised deployments of the Symbox BPM platform with Docker and Kubernetes deployed in EKS ● Promote compliance to all set standards, such as GDPR, ISO 27001 and PCI ● Play a key role in scrum meetings and agile ceremonies – sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives, refinement and reviews ● Maintain legacy procedural Perl codebase, while migrating the BPM platform to MVC & REST utilising the Java/Scala Play framework, addition of ESB services utilising Apache Camel, and adding Azure AD SSO with SAML. Integration of Logi BI into the Symbox BPM platform adding reporting and analytics capabilities Show less



Semantico

• Brighton, United Kingdom

• Senior software engineer & DevOps

  • Feb 2012 - Jan 2014

  ● Worked within an agile scrum framework in fortnightly sprints, tasked with maintaining and developing the companies enterprise access management software SAMS (Sematico access management software) to access digitised academic papers and books used in the scholarly space, the software is written in OO Mod_perl handlers using HTML:MASON templates ● Oversaw the development and management of code in SVN and continuous integration with Jenkins, automatic test builds are used to maintain software integrity, releases are managed with puppet, RPMS are built for production servers and deployed by the sysadmins out-of-hours ● Assigned to the Java platform to power the customer facing websites, implemented in Spring MVC deployed in a JBOSS web container, the front end websites use Solr for full-text indexing of scholarly content Show less



David Byng umbrella consulting

• Contract Perl Developer

  • Apr 2010 - Jan 2012

  Provided Perl contracting for several companies, including BBC world service, Host Europe (123 reg), Venda, PhotoBox & Jobsite Provided Perl contracting for several companies, including BBC world service, Host Europe (123 reg), Venda, PhotoBox & Jobsite



CV-Library

• United Kingdom
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Sep 2008 - Mar 2010

  ● Focused on the maintenance and development of the job board web site, adding modern technologies, such as JSON Autonomously ordered and installed server hardware, built the red hat OS, installing Perl and CPAN libraries, configuring Apache, MySQL and Postfix through to optimising the library of existing Perl code & modules and creating web 2.0 widgets for the web front end ● Converted the web platform of a business acquisition, from ASP.Net to the same LAMP stack used to build CV-Library. ● Focused on the maintenance and development of the job board web site, adding modern technologies, such as JSON Autonomously ordered and installed server hardware, built the red hat OS, installing Perl and CPAN libraries, configuring Apache, MySQL and Postfix through to optimising the library of existing Perl code & modules and creating web 2.0 widgets for the web front end ● Converted the web platform of a business acquisition, from ASP.Net to the same LAMP stack used to build CV-Library.



BBC

• United Kingdom
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 700 & Above Employee

• Mobile Software Engineer

  • Sep 2007 - Aug 2008

  ● Played a key role in numerous key developments within the BBC mobile team, including delivering various web 2.0 platforms for BBC Mobile ● Designed and built an Apache 2 module, written in C, to facilitate device detection. This module uses the MySQL API to query a database with a device user-agent and populate the Apache environment table with device capabilities ● The environment variables were available for additional server-side scripting to optimise the user journey through the BBC mobile site ● Assigned to the client side developer from the BBC iPlayer team to deliver mobile iPlayer for Apple iPhone and Nokia N95 & N96 using JSON, worked with Siemens technology to install streaming media servers to serve 3GP, H.264 and MPEG4 programme streams to the capable devices based on the device detection module ● Worked collaboratively to build a mobile live TV trial taking broadcast feeds and transcoding to 3GP, H.264 and MPEG4 streams for 3G and WIFI capable devices, using the BBC automated programme support service ● Created a Template Toolkit episode guide pages to display now and next information for channels to be used in the trial Show less