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Graza Andersson
Senior Software / Platform Engineer

About

An experienced Software/Platform Engineer with a skill set spanning the entire lifecycle of software projects from concept through to retirement.

Work Experience

APS Group
Manchester
February 2020 – Present
Platform Engineer
Working as part of the centralised Platform Team, my responsibilities entailed ensuring that we have functioning CI/CD pipelines, Infra-as-Code: utilising Terraform for cloud and Ansible for on-premise infrastructure, cost optimisations, observability standards, governance, SSO including IdP integrations and ensuring the health and on-going maintenance of all deployed infrastructure including kubernetes clusters on EKS.
This role also allowed me to learn golang by working on custom Terraform providers, Steampipe plugins & more.
APS Group
Manchester
February 2013 – February 2020
Senior Software Engineer
Working as a senior within a small team, I took a more leading role in the architecture and system design of our in-house and external software as well as co-ordinating a large integration/unification with systems built by our Netherlands office.
This position also allowed me to introduce better practices such as TDD & containerised deployments (Docker) as well as showcase some research into others microservices, DDD, etc.
I was also fortunate enough that during the earlier part of this role I was able to assist in mentoring some of the more junior members of the team.
Equinox
Vancouver
August 2012 – January 2013
Software Developer
Working within a small team of 4, the main responsibilities for this role were the continued maintenance of legacy web applications with a focus on updating them to a newer MVC architecture.
This entailed working on the MVC site code, using Entity Framework to design and access databases and working in jQuery/KnockoutJS to enhance the client side, as well as designing some APIs.
APS Group
Manchester
October 2011 – July 2012
Software Developer
This role was mostly just a title change, in which I continued working on our 'simply suite' systems.
However, there was also some responsibility additions in looking into the next-gen of software, moving away from .Net WebForms and towards SPA/MVC based options with SOAP/REST based APIs.
APS Group
Manchester
April 2009 – October 2011
Systems Analyst & Developer
This was a varied role in which I reported to the Senior Developer team, my initial project was building a new rules engine based product for POS allocations for our retail clients.
After this initial solo project I became a part of the BAU team working on enhancing and maintenance of our software suite known colloquially as 'the simply suite', this included some integration projects as well as co-designing an automated reporting system.
APS Group
Manchester
August 2008 – April 2009
Project Manager
Working in both on-site and remote locations this role encompassed liaising with clients on how best to onboard into our digital systems via integrations and/or migrations as well as improving processes around how data is sent/received. Other responsibilities included but not limited to coordinating people to ensure that work could be carried out on time so as to ensure deadlines were met, as well as the requirements gathering and scoping of the tasks that needed to be completed.
APS Group
Manchester
January 2007 – August 2008
Data Analyst
Working within a small team responsible for maintaining the integrity of data held within systems as well as producing monthly consolidated invoices for clients, MI & KPIs. This role relied heavily on investigation and analysis skills.
Various
Lancaster
August 2005 – January 2007
Freelance Developer
After college I undertook numerous freelance development jobs focusing on PHP frameworks such as Kohana & CodeIgnitor as well as some VB6/C++ work.
However, this was to supplement my income while working other jobs such as bar staff and till operator.

Contact

Peak District UK
hello@graza.io
github
graza-io

Education

  • 2003 2005

    Lancaster & Morecambe College

    BTEC National Diploma

    Software Development (M/M/M), OCR Networking & ECDL

  • 2000 2003

    Ashton on Mersey School

    High School

    10x GCSEs

Skills

Frontend Intermediate
HTML SCSS / CSS Javascript / Typescript
Backend Senior
C# .Net Golang SQL / Relational DB NoSQL GraphDB API Serverless Microservices Distributed Systems TDD DDD
DevOps Senior
AWS Terraform Ansible Scripting Docker Kubernetes Security HELM

Interests

Spending Time With Family
Software Architecture & Development
Scenic Walks
Reading

References

Available on request.