Maintainer and Contributor

Bachelor’s Degree

Large scale rewrite of legacy invoicing/timesheet system into horizontally-scalable microservices.

• Designed and developed scalable and RESTful microservices, along with shared packages, libraries and utilities, and a high-throughput API Gateway to serve our product to the Angular, iOS, and Android apps.
• Shared ownership of system architecture, infrastructure, continuous integration, testing, deployment.
• Wrote ETLs to extract noisy data from legacy systems, sanitise, transform it, and load into new systems.

Tech: Go, Python, Javascript, MySQL, Docker, AWS, Terraform, Prometheus/Grafana, Kibana (ELK), Jenkins
            

    
    

    
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Software Engineer

• Wrote an internal jobs system in AngularJS with a PHP driven JSON REST API and Bootstrap front-end.
• Created WordPress and Magento themes, plugins, interactive web applications with AngularJS, and static websites based on existing designs and specifications.

Tech: PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript, MySQL

Web Developer

• Quorum Blockchain - Distributed Ledger and smart contract proof-of-concepts.
• Virtual Account Management - Prototyping and greenfield development.

Tech: Java, Javascript, Quorum/Ethereum Blockchain, Kafka, Oracle DB, Jenkins, Go

• Developed, maintained, and supported legacy software in an agile team for client-facing products.
• Gained experience of working in a team using Scrum, formal code-review and testing processes.

Tech: PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript, MySQL

PHP Developer

• Created and maintained bespoke WordPress theme and plugins for clients.
• Gained remote working skills by utilising JIRA and GitHub.

Tech: PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript, MySQL

WordPress Developer

Senior Software Engineer

Developing Sync Gateway which manages access control and data synchronisation between the backend database and mobile database products.

Designed and implemented impactful features:
• Delta Sync
• Inter-Sync Gateway Replication
• Channel Access Revocation
• Centralised Persistent Config
• Scopes and Collections

Gained expertise in areas of database design, distributed systems, and replication:
• Multiversion concurrency control techniques
• Replication protocol design

Misc. duties:
• Improved supportability and reliability of product through enhancements and tooling
• Performance analysis, profiling, and optimisations
• Codebase improvements and implemented various test frameworks
• Developed comprehensive CI pipelines (Jenkins and GitHub Actions)
• Technical reviews of design proposals and product requirements across Couchbase
• Mentored junior engineers
• Created and presented technical support training
• Presented at Couchbase Connect 2021 and Engineering show and tells

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Principal Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer at Couchbase

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