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My passion for computing and software development began from a very young age; and throughout the course of subsequent decades, my eye for detail and can-do attitude have resulted in a deep wealth of knowledge and experience in programming effective, and sometimes intriguing solutions to a wide range of business opportunities.
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Key Skills
- C# / LINQ / EF
- Performant Code
- Html/CSS/JS
- AspNetCore/MVC
- WPF/XAML/MVVM
- SQL/DDL/DB Design
- API Design
- Data Analysis / BI
- Functional Paradigm
- TypeScript
- F#
- MSSQL/Postgres
- Git
- DevOps
- Azure Cloud
- Docker/TF
- Powershell
- Leadership
- Mentoring
- Line Management
- Security
- Privacy
- Accessibility
- Linux Admin
Senior Software Developer
Lexacom Limited
April 2024 - To Date
- Technical expert on everything .Net & WPF for the team, contributing significantly towards refactors & feature design work.
- Modernising DevOps employing Docker/Podman for the various infrastructure services implementing best practices for DockerFile/Compose authoring, laying foundation for Kubernetes scaling.
- Mentoring fellow teammates in C#/.Net, WPF & Avalonia, Security vulnerabilities, Node/Bun for JS/TS work.
- Performing peer code reviews and engaging in Agile ceremonies.
Senior Software Engineer
Capital Pilot Limited
Sep 2023 - Oct 2023
- Technical expert on everything .net for the team, leading design & implementation conversations for the next major revamp of the flagship.
- Performed broad spectrum clean-up refactors on the flagship product, paying technical debt built over the years while also delivering feature work.
- Led conversations focusing on improving UI & UX, as well as accessibility story for the flagship product.
- Received a glowing letter of recommendation for my work.
- Unfortunately, the company went in Administration (PDF), in my second month of appointment, resulting in the short engagement.
Contracting & Freelancing
Mav's Work
Jan 2022 - March 2024
- Leveraged my extensive network and expertise to work on diverse projects in freelancing capacity, continuously expanding my knowledge and skills.
- Mentored and served as a technical expert for Moon Prints, an eight-month project involving HTML5 Canvas powering the embedded art designer, enabling personalised print for consumers' needs.
- Performed IT & DevOps project work setting up everything online from scratch from domain purchase to setting up CI/CD web hosting (this cv is deployed via CD) to setting up DKIM/DMARC/SPF details for email flow.
- Invested in my professional growth by engaging in various latest technical developments such as Zig, Bun, ArrowJS, and Stric.
Business Applications Delivery Manager
Zenzero Solutions Ltd
Jun 2021 - Dec 2021
- Played an essential role in the company's strategic growth by leading investment decisions alongside the board.
- Coordinated and managed migration plans of legacy software to modern technology stacks(.Net/Power Platform) while mentoring team members on latest best practices.
- Facilitated expansion as team leader & line manager, ensuring high morale and cultivating individual growth amongst team members.
Development Manager
AWSM Technologies Ltd
Sep 2019 - May 2021
- Spearheaded a team of 26 developers (including 9 seniors) leading technically as well as line management, leveraging their combined capabilities to deliver a top-tier flagship payroll product.
- Key participant in board meetings during strategic decisions around future development and investment.
- Upskilled the team through ongoing detailed code reviews and regular training sessions. I'm particularly proud of having trained a graduate with a business focused degree, from the ground up, into a core team developer working on the flagship product.
- Fostered self-sufficiency and ownership within the team.
- Led various Agile meetings including Sprint planning, Daily stand-ups, Retrospectives.
Senior Developer
AWSM Technologies Ltd
Sep 2018 - Aug 2019
- Lead developer for flagship payroll product.
- Significantly boosted performance across all aspects of the flagship product.
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- Reduced the most used and data-rich page renders from 40+ to 0.64 seconds average through service code and Entity Framework query optimisations.
- Improved a second heavily used page's performance from 30 to 0.07 seconds on average.
- The biggest improvement was in a reporting page where the time to render thousands of results was brought down from 180 to 1.2 seconds on average.
- Performed expert refactorings across entire codebase (despite no tests or documentation) without fail. The achievement that I am most proud of, was an invoice rounding code standardisation that was successfully completed as 200,000 lines refactor involving both C# code & SQL strings interspersed in code with no test coverage.
Software Architect
Backbone (UK) Limited
Jun 2010 - Aug 2018
- Built full-stack automation projects from profile removals after user logouts to complex cloud infrastructure monitoring for billing & utilisation.
- Developed desktop apps (client facing & internal tools) using WPF following established best patterns & practices.
- Conducted data analysis yielding billing & utilisation reports with LINQPad and Excel Power Query (using M functions) from databases, CSV, XML, JSON & XLSX files as well as connecting O-Auth webservices.
- Technical lead on cyber security and privacy matters offering recommendations to keep the company compliant and safe with ever-changing cyber landscape.
Data Analyst / IT Administrator
Prevista Ltd
Feb 2008 - Jun 2009
- Designed key performance metric reports, enabling informed data-driven management decisions.
- Provided extensive technical support covering various aspects of network infrastructure, including MS Exchange, Blackberry Enterprise Server, Avaya phony, MSSQL Server and ISA Server.
- In-house expert for cyber security & Excel data analysis.
- Delivered essential upgrades to ensure company's systems and networks scale with ongoing growth.
Project Management Processes & Tools Engineer
NOKIA Telenetworks
May 2005 - Jan 2007
- Produced detailed reports for project management decisions using tailored Business Objects modules.
- Designed and optimised existing deployment processes to increase efficiency and meet very tight deadlines.
- Developed complex Excel 97 workbooks (using advanced formulae employing Indirect, Offset etc. ranges & SQL) to meet specific managerial requirements, including replicating pivot tables without VBA.
- Automated repetitive reporting tasks with VBA saving hundreds of person-hours the course of my employment.
- Developed Python solution for automated data entry, freeing up thousands of colleagues man-hours nationwide and significantly increasing accuracy of entries.
- Awarded Best Team Nationwide 2006 & Zonal Team Member of the Month Sep 2005.
Network Administrator
APIIT
Sep 2001 - Mar 2005
- Automated lab deployments to reduce downtimes for machines from days to 30 minutes per machine in a network of 500+ machines.
- Optimised network and computer systems, achieving a 20-30% performance increase across the board while slashing hardware requirements by 50% doubling the capacity.
- Migrated & consolidated Windows server to Linux boxes, leading to budget savings of 83% in licensing.
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