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Senior Backend Engineer & Senior Security Specialist
Responsible for security across various entities within the company, handling Bug Bounty submissions, maintaining and improving the platform code and researching into, reporting & patching vulnerabilities.
Worked with the CISO to improve security across the company.
Discovered & patched multiple security vulnerabilities in the platform.
Worked on a new safe dating toolset during a Hackathon which came 2nd place.
Senior Backend Engineer & Senior Security Specialist
Led a team of 8 & Responsible for architecting, building and maintaining a scalablable microservices platform built on Laravel, using Terraform & Kubernetes in GCP as a migration from a monolithic Magento setup.
Mentoring development team on PHP 7.4 and Laravel frameworks to enhance platform stability
Won Google-judged hackathon for the best use of Google Cloud Platform with AI and machine learning.
Streamlined backend infrastructure through deployment of containerisation & monorepo setup, with improved CI/CD pipelines resulting in improved system reliability and reduced time between deployment cycles
Maintained the open source PHP package for Prometheus, implemented Prometheus across all microservices & implemented grafana dashboards for monitoring and alerting.
Note: Company laid off all senior engineers in 2020 at the start of the COVID pandemic, leading to the end of my contract.
Contract Senior PHP Engineer
Working on a large insurance project using CQRS and Event sourcing patterns, Symfony, and node.js to the internal processes for clients in the Lloyds of London insurance market among others. I was responsible for leading a team of 4 engineers and mentoring them on best practices.
Mentoring new developers to have joined since my Army deployment
Implementing new Monorepo setup for the project to improve development efficiency
Implermenting new modular architecture for the project to improve maintainability and scalability for rapid builds for new clients.
Contract Security Consultant
Advising on best practices, training staff on cyber, human and physical attack vectors; Securing existing products & infrastructure, auditing security practices and processes and advising & implementing new security processes and methodologies.
Contract Senior PHP Developer
Working to create innovative products for various clients including the full development of SexyFoxy.nl. I created the stack which included Laravel 5, Vue.js, Webpack (among other technologies) and setup the server infrastructure, CI and CD processes.
Implemented full i18n and l10n support for the platform, allowing for easy translation and localization.
Built full CI/CD processes using Gitlab to deployment efficiency.
Led 2 engineering teams on insurance projects using CQRS and Event sourcing patterns, Symfony, and node.js to the internal processes for clients in the Lloyds of London insurance market among others.
Implemented project management processes, improving team agility and development lifecycle.
Introduced continuous integration and automated testing, optimizing development efficiency.
Achieved measurable improvements in system performance, reducing analyst workload.
Won Awards for our CQRS + Event sourcing architecture, enhancing system performance and scalability.
Served as a Lance Bombardier in the British Army, specializing in air defence operations, teaching & leadership. Demonstrated strong teamwork and communication skills while working in high-pressure environments. Developed a keen understanding of discipline, responsibility, and commitment to excellence.