Experience
2023 — Now
2023 — Now
London, United Kingdom
Major Projects:
• Successfully led a team of four acting as the project lead and lead engineer to deliver a reliable and high efficiency micro-service from scratch in the Open Banking space within six weeks of design sign-off for a time sensitive project
• Development of a Confirmation of Payee (COP) solution in the OpenBanking product space in line with PAYUK standards
• Development, maintenance and supporting our Payment Initiation (PISP) and Variable Recurring Payments (VRP) offerings
• Development, maintenance and supporting our Faster Payment (FPS) and CHAPS software solutions
D2D:
• Write clean, testable code to enable for scalable and high efficiency applications
• Create and present architectural designs to the architecture team
• Conduct daily reviews of merge requests submitted by peers
• Mentoring new team members and supporting/unblocking teammates where and when required
• The “Agile Champion” of the team. Promoting and ensuring agile best practises and organising ceremonies
• Support internal and external queries relating to our Faster Payments, Confirmation of Payee, Verification of Payee, CHAPS where remediation or business/technical domain knowledge is required
Tech/Process Stack: Java 17, Spring Boot, Rest APIs, Agile, Kanban, Event driven microservices, JPA, Gradle, Liquibase, Postgres SQL, AWS, HSM, Tyk, Cucumber, JUnit, Spring Test, RabbitMQ, Terraform
2019 — 2023
2019 — 2023
London, United Kingdom
Full Stack Engineer in an agile/scrum environment as part of the development team of the company's flagship product 'LiveDataset';
• Responsible for implementing new functionality/features, fulfilling changing requests as well as maintenance and support of the software
• Also the team’s POC for DevOps, have driven migrations of servers & repositories and supporting the end to end lifecycle of the application
2015 — 2016
2015 — 2016
Uxbridge, Middlesex
During my internship as part of my university placement here, I have been exposed to Agile software development with SCRUM. The projects I have worked on include:
• Implementing security user stories in Java for an Android application.
• Developing an ASP.NET MVC application in .NET (C#) and SQL.
• Automation testing a web application with UAT scenarios using Java and Selenium.
• Creating prototypes of an iOS application (BLE related) and a Xamarin Windows application.
• Arranging and documenting the set-up stages of Canon's MEAP Web applications.
Education
University of Southampton
Masters
University of Hertfordshire
Bachelor of Science (BSc)
Beaumont School
New Lilly Model High School