resume.json

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    "name": "Lee Oades",
    "label": "Senior Software Developer",
    "image": "https://avatars2.githubusercontent.com/u/2321091?s=800",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "phone": "+44 (0)7946 233 130",
    "url": "https://leeoades.github.io/",
    "summary": "Professional software developer with extensive experience. Reliable, self-motivated, positive can-do attitude, team player and friendly chap.\nContracting since 2008, clients range from large financial corporations to the games industry, charities and start-ups.\nPassionate about producing beautiful, well-tested, maintainable code, adhering to best practices and industry standard design patterns, using an Agile and iterative approach.\nExcellent business and client facing communication skills. Talented academic (1st Class Honours degree in Mathematics with Computer Science) with systematic problem-solving abilities.\n",
    "location": {
      "city": "Amesbury",
      "region": "Wiltshire",
      "countryCode": "UK"
    },
    "profiles": [
      {
        "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/leeoades/",
        "username": "leeoades",
        "network": "linkedin"
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  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "The University of Southampton",
      "url": "https://www.southampton.ac.uk/",
      "area": "Mathematics with Computer Science",
      "studyType": "Bachelor of Science with Honours",
      "startDate": "1993-09-01",
      "endDate": "1996-07-01",
      "score": "1st Class Honours Degree"
    }
  ],
  "references": [
    {
      "reference": "I've had the pleasure of working with Lee on a couple of occasions in the past decade, both long term consultant hires, and cannot recommend highly enough his skills and the way that he delivers them into teams and projects.\nWhen you hire Lee you're hiring much more than a professional, experienced, trusted and battle-hardened software developer.\nAs well as the high quality outputs that you'd expect from a consultant developer like Lee, he also adds his abilities to generate, foster and maintain high levels of enthusiasm and collaboration in any team that he joins.\n",
      "name": "Dale Titcombe, Head of IT, BCS, The Charter Institute for IT",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dale-titcombe-mbcs-citp-bbaab098/"
    },
    {
      "reference": "I have worked with Lee for many years, crossing several contracts / projects and I cannot rate him highly enough.\nLee has been instrumental in revolutionising our ways of working and has never let me down when it comes to delivering quality product. He's also completely autonomous and finds ways of filling gaps even between tasks.\n",
      "name": "Ken Maes, Application Development Manager, BCS, The Charter Institute for IT",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ken-maes-7511a011/"
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  "skills": [
    {
      "keywords": [
        "C# v12",
        ".Net 8",
        "Multithreading",
        "ASP.Net Core APIs",
        "TDD / Unit Testing in XUnit",
        "Moq / FakeItEasy",
        "BDD Specflow",
        "DI",
        "SOLID"
      ],
      "level": "Master",
      "name": "Coding"
    },
    {
      "keywords": [
        "WPF",
        "Kafka",
        "Microsoft Orleans",
        "gRPC",
        "RX",
        "SQL",
        "Terraform",
        "GIT",
        "Docker Containers",
        "Jira",
        "Team City / Octopus",
        "Kibana / DataDog"
      ],
      "level": "Advanced",
      "name": "Tech + Tools"
    },
    {
      "keywords": [
        "Lambda",
        "Step Functions",
        "SNS",
        "SQS",
        "DynamoDB",
        "API Gateway",
        "EC2",
        "S3",
        "MySql",
        "FTP",
        "CloudWatch"
      ],
      "level": "Advanced",
      "name": "AWS"
    }
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  "work": [
    {
      "name": "Starlizard",
      "description": "Leading sports analysis and betting platform provider.",
      "url": "https://starlizard.com/",
      "location": "London + remote",
      "position": "Backend Cloud Developer",
      "startDate": "2022-07-04",
      "endDate": "2024-12-01",
      "highlights": [
        "Developed features for a complex, asynchronous, low latency, event sourced / event driven betting platform. Handled bet execution, pricing, liability, market behaviour automation, sport event simulation, load testing.",
        "Actor architecture using Microsoft Orleans. Subscriptions to Kafka streams. gRPC streams and Swagger end points. Persistence to MySql and DynamoDB. High test coverage using XUnit and Specflow tests.",
        "Utilised many technologies and tools: Docker, K3D, Tilt, Kubernetes, MySql, Kowl, RedPanda, OpenLens, Helm, Kibana, DataDog, plus many AWS services"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "eCommonSense (Merchant Systems Group Limited) / ECI Software Solutions",
      "description": "ECommerce solution for the builders merchant industry. eCommonSense aquired by ECI Software Solutions in Oct 2021",
      "url": "https://www.ecommonsense.com/",
      "location": "remote",
      "position": "Lead Integration Platform Developer",
      "startDate": "2020-11-02",
      "endDate": "2022-06-30",
      "highlights": [
        "Built a middleware layer between our front end Magento system and numerous Builders Merchant ERP systems.",
        "Thin vertical slice components to better isolate feature implementations. Use of Mediatr for clean code separation.",
        "Event driven architecture within AWS - API Gateways, SNS, SQS, Lambdas, MySql",
        "Architecture declared and deployed through Terraform."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "BCS",
      "description": "The Chartered Institute for IT",
      "url": "https://www.bcs.org/",
      "location": "Swindon",
      "position": "Senior Software Developer",
      "startDate": "2019-09-01",
      "endDate": "2020-08-31",
      "highlights": [
        "Candidate registration system : Multiple independent, asynchronous .NET Core microservices, APIs, ASP.NET MVC websites and a Blazor client app deployed to AWS.",
        "Distributed, event driven architecture within AWS (SNS, SQS, Lambdas, DynamoDB).",
        "Cleanly built components utilising Mediatr, built using TDD, XUnit and mock builders.",
        "Also co-developed .NET Core web application to replace legacy system. Included simple isolated SPAs in Knockout and Typescript, dynamic creation of Excel and Word reports using business supplied templates, sending customised emails."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Nationwide",
      "description": "The world's largest building society",
      "url": "https://www.nationwide.co.uk/",
      "location": "Swindon",
      "position": "Senior Software Developer",
      "startDate": "2018-09-01",
      "endDate": "2019-08-31",
      "highlights": [
        "Developed .NET Core backend services for a new, large and complex distributed system for Mortgage Consultants to process new mortgage applications.",
        "Hosted in Docker containers using Kubernetes.",
        "Event driven architecture over Kafka. Storage in MongoDB.",
        "Integration with many existing legacy services."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "BCS",
      "description": "The Chartered Institute for IT",
      "url": "https://www.bcs.org/",
      "location": "Swindon",
      "position": "Senior Software Developer",
      "startDate": "2015-06-01",
      "endDate": "2018-08-31",
      "highlights": [
        "Built .NET Core ASP MVC url for exam invigilators - Knockout, Bootstrap, OAuth, SQL DB, deployed to Amazon AWS EC2",
        "Developed .NET image processing algorithms for detecting answer from a photo of an exam paper, eliminating lighting abnormalities / shadows and determining which circles were coloured in. High profile project request from CEO, concept to delivery in 3 months.",
        "Significantly improved customer experiences and replaced several tedious, internal, manual processes through automation. Used AWS Lambdas and Step Functions to integrate internal systems with 3rd party vendors, Salesforce APIs.",
        "Implemented a complete workflow for Salesforce development team – introduced source control, continuous integration, automated deployments, environment specific configuration. Provided training, documentation and support."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Royal Bank of Canada - Capital Markets",
      "description": "Global investment bank",
      "url": "https://www.rbc.com/",
      "location": "London",
      "position": "Analyst Developer",
      "startDate": "2013-07-01",
      "endDate": "2015-04-30",
      "highlights": [
        "Front Office FX application provides live + historical data for quote and deal blotters, dealer intervention, position display.",
        "WPF application.",
        "Low latency streaming (RV & Solace into RX)",
        "High unit test coverage and reduced regression costs through BDDs (nBehave)."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Royal Bank of Scotland",
      "description": "Major retail and commercial bank",
      "url": "https://rbs.co.uk",
      "location": "London",
      "position": "WPF Developer",
      "startDate": "2012-09-01",
      "endDate": "2013-07-31",
      "highlights": [
        "Back office P&L / Balance Sheet sign off application.",
        "Multithreaded WPF application making heavy use of RX for its multithreading, receiving of updates, UI interaction etc.",
        "Well-architected code and separation of concerns through MVVM, view-model first.",
        "TDD maintains very high test coverage (+90%)."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Trayport",
      "description": "Provides energy trading solutions for traders, brokers, and exchanges worldwide.",
      "url": "https://www.trayport.com/",
      "location": "London",
      "position": "Silverlight Developer",
      "startDate": "2012-01-01",
      "endDate": "2012-08-31",
      "highlights": [
        "Flagship Commodities Trading Platform",
        "Silverlight v5 multi-window out-of-browser application for traders providing live market prices.",
        "Written in C# and F#. Created new features within the application as well as maintaining it, refactoring and improving its architecture, stability and performance, plus troubleshooting and fixing issues.",
        "Autofac, MEF, RX, TDD, Moq, AgUnit, Silverlight Unit Testing Framework, SpecFlow, interop to C++ COM and Win32 components.",
        "Agile methodologies, pair programming, peer reviews. Provided technical support to team members."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "BNP Paribas",
      "description": "The largest French banking group and the largest bank in the Eurozone",
      "url": "https://group.bnpparibas/en/",
      "location": "London",
      "position": "Senior Developer",
      "startDate": "2010-08-01",
      "endDate": "2011-12-31",
      "highlights": [
        "Developed enhanced WPF application framework including layouts, state persistence, magnetic windows, cross-process communication and eventing, common controls and styling and more",
        "Live FX Trades blotter WPF windows application that displays live, filterable grids of FX trade data. TOC subscription service, communication using Protobuffers through RV layer, application used RX to throttle incoming data.",
        "Live FX Position monitor WPF app that displays live FX positions on animated bar charts. Data can be drilled into to display different cuts e.g. by currency pair, client sector, region etc. Windows service uses continuous queries onto Coherence database and MDX queries into OLAP Cube."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "interests": [
    {
      "name": "photography"
    },
    {
      "name": "retro tech, pixel art"
    },
    {
      "name": "acoustic guitar"
    },
    {
      "name": "poker, chess, board games"
    },
    {
      "name": "playing football"
    }
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