Software Engineering Manager

• Jul 2017 - Present

Developing agency banking services (BACS, Direct Debits, Faster Payments) for the card processing sector. Creating and maintaining web services and console applications using .NET technologies. Leading a scrum team and facilitating scrum ceremonies. Keeping track of on-going sprint work and helping facilitate any blockages within the team. Refactoring code to follow the SOLID principles. Added the use of dependency injection and mocking to create a suite of unit tests for developers to build on. Moved to GIT (Bitbucket) from an old version of TFS and managed migration of the code repositories. Setup a build and deployment server (TeamCity/Jenkins and Octopus Deploy). Implemented the concept of continuous integration and promoting between environments to maintain consistency. Educating and mentoring fellow developers to follow modern development practices. Work closely with the head of development to create coding standards and to enforce these standards. Technologies and tools used – .NET Core, ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET, SQL Server, Autofac, NSubstitute, NUnit, Jenkins, OctopusDeploy Show less

Lead Software Engineer

• Feb 2017 - May 2017

Leading a team of three developers to develop a content management system using Sitecore 8.2 for leading structural design company ARUP. Responsible for putting in place branching strategy and code reviews to ensure code quality is maintained. Managing developer’s workload in planning and estimation sessions. Taking part in stand-ups, planning and review sessions with the client. Leading a team of three developers to develop a content management system using Sitecore 8.2 for leading structural design company ARUP. Responsible for putting in place branching strategy and code reviews to ensure code quality is maintained. Managing developer’s workload in planning and estimation sessions. Taking part in stand-ups, planning and review sessions with the client.

Lead Software Engineer

• Sep 2015 - Feb 2017

Developing occupancy utilisation software that receives large amounts of data from a distributed network of IoT devices and processes raw data in real time to generate reports. Involved in architecture and development of the product. Also performing the role of a Scrum master. Leading the coding standards group to create a common set of coding standards that can be used across all development teams. Extensive use of Azure technologies to achieve technical solutions. Investigated and created proof of concepts to use IOT hub, Service bus, Active directory B2C and Stream analytics. Production application uses Azure App services, Azure storage accounts, Redis cache, Azure SQL databases, deploying by regions, auto scaling and application insights. Technologies and tools used - ASP.NET MVC, Web API, C#, Angular.js, Unity, Automapper, Dapper, SQL Server Azure, JS lint, gulp, .less, cassette, style cop, NUnit Show less

Senior Software Developer

• Sep 2013 - Aug 2015

Software Developer

• Dec 2012 - Sep 2013

Software Developer

• Apr 2011 - Dec 2012

Software Developer

• Mar 2008 - Apr 2011

Software Developer (Summer Placement)

• Apr 2007 - Aug 2007