Kevin Corlett
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Marc Burton
Kevin is a truly influential technical lead, he completely transformed the engineering culture when he joined our team, introducing many of the practices of extreme programming, notably pair programming and test driven development. He was a passionate advocate for lean theory ensuring we lived agile values everyday and approached our work with the aim of delivering small, incremental value. He also instilled a DevOps culture leading our approach to automated testing, automated deployments and configuration as code enabling our team to achieve continuous delivery to production. As an engineer Kevin is easily the most informed and knowledgeable person I have worked with, his approach to architecture and system design have created incredibly elegant and pragmatic solutions and he has written some of the most inspired code I have ever seen. If you are looking for a CTO or Head of Engineering to transform your business and to lead with passion then you won't find a better candidate than Kevin.
Marc Burton
Kevin is a truly influential technical lead, he completely transformed the engineering culture when he joined our team, introducing many of the practices of extreme programming, notably pair programming and test driven development. He was a passionate advocate for lean theory ensuring we lived agile values everyday and approached our work with the aim of delivering small, incremental value. He also instilled a DevOps culture leading our approach to automated testing, automated deployments and configuration as code enabling our team to achieve continuous delivery to production. As an engineer Kevin is easily the most informed and knowledgeable person I have worked with, his approach to architecture and system design have created incredibly elegant and pragmatic solutions and he has written some of the most inspired code I have ever seen. If you are looking for a CTO or Head of Engineering to transform your business and to lead with passion then you won't find a better candidate than Kevin.
Marc Burton
Kevin is a truly influential technical lead, he completely transformed the engineering culture when he joined our team, introducing many of the practices of extreme programming, notably pair programming and test driven development. He was a passionate advocate for lean theory ensuring we lived agile values everyday and approached our work with the aim of delivering small, incremental value. He also instilled a DevOps culture leading our approach to automated testing, automated deployments and configuration as code enabling our team to achieve continuous delivery to production. As an engineer Kevin is easily the most informed and knowledgeable person I have worked with, his approach to architecture and system design have created incredibly elegant and pragmatic solutions and he has written some of the most inspired code I have ever seen. If you are looking for a CTO or Head of Engineering to transform your business and to lead with passion then you won't find a better candidate than Kevin.
Marc Burton
Kevin is a truly influential technical lead, he completely transformed the engineering culture when he joined our team, introducing many of the practices of extreme programming, notably pair programming and test driven development. He was a passionate advocate for lean theory ensuring we lived agile values everyday and approached our work with the aim of delivering small, incremental value. He also instilled a DevOps culture leading our approach to automated testing, automated deployments and configuration as code enabling our team to achieve continuous delivery to production. As an engineer Kevin is easily the most informed and knowledgeable person I have worked with, his approach to architecture and system design have created incredibly elegant and pragmatic solutions and he has written some of the most inspired code I have ever seen. If you are looking for a CTO or Head of Engineering to transform your business and to lead with passion then you won't find a better candidate than Kevin.
Experience
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Goji
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United Kingdom
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Financial Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Engineering Manager
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Jun 2022 - Present
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Kinetic
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United Kingdom
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Head of Development
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Mar 2016 - Jun 2022
Heading the software engineering function, delivering a multi-tenanted SaaS platform in AWS, incorporating technologies such as nodejs, .net core, ECS Fargate, Lambda, Kinesis, Keycloak. Heading the software engineering function, delivering a multi-tenanted SaaS platform in AWS, incorporating technologies such as nodejs, .net core, ECS Fargate, Lambda, Kinesis, Keycloak.
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National Energy Services (now SAVA)
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Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom
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Software Team Leader
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Jul 2014 - Mar 2016
I was responsible for a small development team, being involved in all aspects of the SDLC for that team from requirements gathering through to analysis and implementation. While at NES, I introduced many new technologies, tools and practices including TDD, JIRA, Confluence, sprint retrospectives, proper story breakdown and estimation, SOLID principles, continuous delivery, automated testing, AWS. I was responsible for a small development team, being involved in all aspects of the SDLC for that team from requirements gathering through to analysis and implementation. While at NES, I introduced many new technologies, tools and practices including TDD, JIRA, Confluence, sprint retrospectives, proper story breakdown and estimation, SOLID principles, continuous delivery, automated testing, AWS.
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easyJet
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United Kingdom
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Airlines and Aviation
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700 & Above Employee
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Development Team Lead
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Dec 2012 - Jul 2014
Starting as a senior developer in 2012, I was promoted to team lead in December 2013. I was responsible for feature development, website maintenance, line management, recruitment and evangelising agile best practice within my team. Starting as a senior developer in 2012, I was promoted to team lead in December 2013. I was responsible for feature development, website maintenance, line management, recruitment and evangelising agile best practice within my team.
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SISLive (Now NEP Connect)
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Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom
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Lead Developer
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Jun 2007 - Nov 2012
I was responsible for implementation of software to control mobile ground stations (news vans and flyaways) for the broadcast and IP markets. The software managed a suite of hardware components, autonomously establishing a satellite uplink, downloading the broadcast schedule, programming the encoder and receiver settings, and bringing up and down the transmission at the correct times and frequencies. The various hardware devices communicated on proprietary protocols using RS-232,RS-422,TCP/IP, HTTP, UDP, SNMP.
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EMI Music
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United States
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Musicians
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Developer
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Oct 2006 - Mar 2007
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Pelagon
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United Kingdom
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Lead Developer
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Jan 2001 - Oct 2006
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Dorset Software
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United Kingdom
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Analyst Programmer
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Aug 1998 - Jan 2001
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Education
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1995 - 1998
Imperial College London
BSc (Hons), Physics
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