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Work Experience

• Senior Contractor, HSBC

  May, 2025 - Dec, 20257 months

  • Collaborated with teams across the globe to deliver a system to provide quotes to an external vendor.
  • Spearheaded a custom functional and monitoring toolkit that identified bottlenecks pre-launch, ensuring 100% stability during the go-live phase.

  • Microservices

  • Kotlin / Ktor

  • Java / Spring / SpringBoot

• Senior Contractor, CitiBank (through Juxt)

  Jan, 2022 - Apr, 20253 years 2 months

  • Modernized legacy data system by replacing a high-scale key-value database with a scalable microservices suite deployed via Kubernetes.
  • Eliminated long-standing technical debt by migrating time-dependent legacy systems to a cloud-native internal banking platform, all while growth on the existing platform was continuing to grow.

  • Kubernetes

  • Microservices

  • Kotlin / HTTP4k

  • Clojure

• Senior Contractor, HSBC (through TekSystems)

  Apr, 2021 - Jan, 20229 months

  Expanded the Prime Brokerage platform’s capabilities to support U.S. Arranged Financing, enabling the business to capture new market share within North American jurisdictions.

  • Hazelcast

  • Microservices

  • Java

  • Spring / SpringBoot

• Senior Contractor, Delta Capita

  Apr, 2020 - Mar, 20211 year

  Engineered a library of shared services and UI components, enabling rapid prototyping and reducing development cycles for new client requirements.

  • Serverless Message Driven architecture (Amazon Lambda, Amazon SQS)

  • S3 immutable storage for business data.

  • Angular / React monorepo using nx.js to combine the components into one platform user interface.

  • NodeJS express apps that function as the lambda code

  • Javascript, Typescript, ExpressJS, Angular, RXJS

• Senior Java Contractor, Credit Suisse

  Jun, 2018 - Mar, 20201 year 10 months

  Developed the workflow based structured product lifecycle orchestration app using Flowable from scratch. (BPMN)

  • Provided the orchestration that tied the individual micro services into a system for documenting, costing and selling structued products.

  • Built the new system product store for capturing product state.

  • Pushing forward with new ways to test and coordinate microservices within our group.

  • Pushing forward with new ways to orchestrate our deployments with our group.

  • Maintaining existing structured product software solutions

  • Java, Kotlin, SpringBoot, BPMN

• Senior Java Contractor, BSKYB

  Jan, 2018 - May, 20184 months

  • Engineering new customer flows within the online video platform authentication system
  • High emphasis on monitoring and scalablity

  • Java, Dropwizzard, Ratpack, Kubernetes

• Senior Java Contractor, Delta Capita

  Jun, 2017 - Dec, 20176 months

  Automated reporting system to replace manual workflows for the supply chain finance system with third parties.

• Senior Java Contractor, Credit Suisse

  May, 2016 - May, 20171 year

  Develop a new application to generate and manage the lifecycle for KID (Key Information Documents) for Credit Suisse's structured products.

  • Kotlin

• Technical Lead, GFT for Deutsche Bank

  Jan, 2016 - May, 20164 months

  Working alongside DB employees in Romania to meet a deadline for a new counterparty management app within the bank. Working cross concerns to get the software delivered

  • React

• Senior Java Contractor, Credit Suisse

  Nov, 2014 - Dec, 20151 year 1 month

  Develop a new application for pricing parameters, the application acts as a rule repository and executor for rules written by business users, with high traffic expectations

  • Kotlin

  • Angular

• CTO, FightMe

  Jan, 2013 - Oct, 20141 year 9 months

  Leading a small team to develop the FightMe web, ios and androids apps. Hands on developing the front and backends for the site

  • NodeJS

  • Angular

• Contractor, Wiley

  Jun, 2012 - Dec, 20126 months

  Develop the Cochrane Search app for public use, that queries across years of medical research publications stored in a marklogic database

  • Backbone

  • Spring

  • MarkLogic

• Contractor, BSKYB

  Jun, 2011 - May, 201211 months

  Develop support applications for Sky broadband's roll out of FTTC products. Used by the customer support teams within sky.

  • Utterly Idle/Totally Lazy (Functional Java libraries) Rest

• Senior Developer, Yazino

  Jul, 2010 - May, 201110 months

  MMO Online Casino

  • Gigaspaces in memory grid framework

  • RabbitMQ

  • CHEF

• Java Developer, BSKYB

  Jun, 2009 - Jun, 20101 year 1 month

  Extend SkyID online login portal with new services and features

  • Grails

• Java Developer, Temenos

  Jun, 2007 - May, 20102 years 11 months

  Develop core components used by wealth management system

• E-Business Application Developer, CERN

  Jun, 2004 - May, 20072 years 11 months

• E-Business Application Developer Technical Student, CERN

  Sep, 2002 - Aug, 200311 months

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