I'm a full stack software engineer from Leeds, UK.

Currently a Staff Engineer at Ebury UK, working on their foreign exchange systems.

Previous roles include:

• Senior MTS (Member of Technical Staff), VMware
• Senior Software Engineer, Bitnami
• Senior Software Engineer, Canonical
• Software Engineer, Isotek Electronics (now CSS Isotek Ltd)
• Deutsche Bank (via Strategic Systems Solutions)
• Pollenation Internet (own company, web design/application consultancy

Preferred programming languages are Python, Go, and Node/JavaScript, but with experience of many other languages including C/C++, Java, Ruby, PHP, Erlang, etc.

Recent technologies include:

• Linux
• Go - HTTP APIs, CLIs, etc
• Node.js - Backend for Frontend (BFF), HTTP APIs, scripting, etc
• Python - Django, Flask, FastAPI, scripting, etc
• SQL
• JavaScript, HTML, CSS, etc
• React
• Kafka
• HTTP (JSON) APIs
• Hypermedia (aka REST) APIs
• gRPC
• GraphQL
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Terraform
• Observabililty - Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry, Kibana/ELK, OpenTelemetry, etc
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Databases - Postgres, Redis, MongoDB, Elastic
• Keycloak & OpenID Connect

Previous experience includes:

• C/C++, Java/J2EE, PHP, Erlang
• JavaScript - Angular, jQuery
• Mobile - Android, iOS
• OS/2, VxWorks
• UI - GTK+, OS/2 Presentation Manager, X11, Motif
• IBM DB/2, Oracle Database, MySQL/MariaDB, CouchDB
• Microsoft Azure