about me
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CODER
I have been coding since I was a child. Believe me, that’s a long time!
SOLUTION DESIGN
I focus mainly on Cloud Solution Architecture nowadays but started my career with on Prem enterprise architecture.
INNOVATION
I am all about work smarter not harder. With modern toolsets and language capabilities it is always worth innovating the small wins that lead to massive wins down the line.
PROBLEM SOLVER
I’m probably at my happiest and most zen solving complex problems that are causing people headaches. I see each problem as a puzzle to be solved and I am addicted to puzzles.
Work Process
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IDEA
DESIGN
DEVELOP
TEST
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Previous Projects
Fun Fact
Father of 2 Bearded Dragons
Coding since 1985
20,000,000 Cups Of Coffee
Drives a bright yellow MINI
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WORK HISTORY
March 2020 – December 2020
Senior Full Stack Web Developer
The Planning Inspectorate
Protyping of a JSON “low code” web forms engine with workflow features for online appeals process
Sep 2015 – August 2019
Senior Full Stack Web Developer
SMBC Nikko Capital Markets Ltd
Delivering Capital Markets Risk Management solutions in the AML regulatory space. Solutions were web based workflow applications based on the full Microsoft Stack with with C#, ASP.Net Core and SQL Server. The front end libraries used were Angular2+ and React. Additional Microservices were delivered in Node.js and Python Flask. I implemented end to end continuous integration using Python3 and Buildbot.
July 2014 – Jun 2015
Senior Workflow Consultant
Postbank AG (Bonn, Germany)
Solely responsible for the system upgrade of their workflow system and the re-write of their full stack web based core workflows, using Microsoft Full stack and Oracle 11g. I delivered an end to end service, including very successful cutover planning and execution.
Mar 2014 – July 2014
Senior Analyst Developer – Workflow Systems
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
Full stack web and workflow development.
Feb 1997 – Mar 2014
Junior programmer in 1997 to Technical Team Leader in 2012.
Various permanent and contracting roles, please see CV download link at the bottom of this page for further information.
EDUCATION
1997
HNC Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Heriot-Watt University
1995
A Levels
Queensbury Sixth Form, Dunstable
Maths, Physics
1995
GCSES, 10 C and above.
Queensbury School, Dunstable
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Coding Skills
HTML5
CSS3
jQuery
C#
javascript
typescript
python3
Testing and CI Frameworks
NUnit
Jasmine
Buildbot
Jenkins
Travis
blog
A pattern for using modal dialogs in Laravel
Autocomplete Web Component
Web component development, the test first way.
contact
Let’s Socialize
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based in Los Angeles, USA
Tel : +123 456 78900
johndoe [at] gmail.com