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CapitaCloud Architecture and Engineering Lead
Jun. 2021 - Apr. 2022London, England, United KingdomHelping customers succeed with cloud technologies.
Depotnet LtdCTO at DepotNET Ltd
Aug. 2020 - Jun. 2021Warwickshire, England, United KingdomManaging development and architecture of DepotNET's products. Initial focus on platform monitoring, scaling, security and test automation.
Bridgetech GroupChief Delivery Officer
Sep. 2019Southampton, England, United KingdomArchitecting and developing business applications using serverless technologies. We won an award!
http://awards.insurancetimes.co.uk/tech-awards-20/winners/
Capgemini Financial ServicesPlatform Engineering Lead
Jan. 2018 - Aug. 2020London, United KingdomI am techical lead for a two pizza DevOps team. We are responsible for deploying an existing insurance application stack across 7 greenfield AWS environments, and supporting over 300 AWS Workspaces. I have lead on environment strategy and code management. I have developed several AWS Lambda applications, including an SES bot that automates password resets and workstation reboots. I worked on a digital security platform at a bank. I supported an Agile team as they made the transition from feature-focussed development to delivering into production. In practice this meant a lot of time worrying about certificates, load balancers, firewalls and Linux access rights. I enjoyed learning about Centrify. There was limited opportunities for automation, but I did sneak in some work with Venafi for self-service against the bank's internal CA. I advised an API program at a bank. I thought about what makes good REST APIs, and how to deliver them safely and quickly. There are interesting parallels with PaaS in terms of the impact on Operations and GRC.
Red Hound LimitedDirector
Sep. 2014 - May. 2016London, United KingdomI was co-founding director acting as CTO and CFO, with lashings of HR. I lead technical direction and creation of continuous delivery pipeline for Red Hound's Test Intelligence product, using Docker, Docker Compose, Jenkins and Selenium.
Dell EMCAdvisory Consultant
Jun. 2014 - Jan. 2018London, United KingdomI worked as a platform architect on Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) implementations of Pivotal Cloud Foundry. I spent quite a bit of time thinking about how to harden the platform to meet needs of banking and manufacturing customers. Topics include end-to-end encryption, mutual TLS, container identity and multi-site deployments. I contributed various tools on these topics here: https://github.com/bendalby82 Previously I worked on Pivotal's real-time intelligence for telecommunications solution. Technologies include GemFire, HDFS, SQLFire, Reactor, Spring Integration, Spring Boot, Spring Batch. Extensive experience in automating deployment, backup and monitoring of distributed applications using Bash on Red Hat Linux.
RBSJava Application Developer
Feb. 2013 - May. 2014London, United KingdomI designed and developed an application to profile FpML trades. This was part of a cross-asset control program to improving trade booking standards. The project started with interest rate swaps, before moving into foreign exchange. The application was built using Spring Integration, and provided real-time feedback on trade characteristics using complex rule sets. There was a large amount to learn on this project; tuning Spring for concurrency and implementing a REST API were particular highlights.
Kingfisher IT ServicesBusiness Analyst
Nov. 2012 - Jan. 2013Chandlers Ford, HampshireI developed service contracts between ATG and SAP, as part of KITS' migration to service-oriented architecture. I brought XML expertise and technical depth to my team, and enjoyed the shuttle diplomacy involved in winning agreement between multiple third party suppliers. I learned about SAP's order status flow in some detail, and worked with the most complex schema I have ever seen - OAGIS. Also learnt quite a lot about VAT treatment of invoices.
NYSE EuronextBusiness Analyst
Jun. 2012 - Oct. 2012London, United KingdomI helped IT Operations plan support for NYSE's new derivatives clearing house. I brought consulting experience to the team, structuring approaches, plans and documentation. It was a career higlight to witness the level of skill and professionalism involved in supporting market infrastructure. Particular work streams included creating an RFP for a business activity monitoring system, creating requirements documentation for the exhange's SWIFT implmentation, and assembling Operations' documentation for the FSA.
NewedgeConsultant
Jan. 2010 - Dec. 2011Working as part of transatlantic consulting team to develop a global distributed messaging system, which on-boarded multiple legacy systems based on SQL stored procedures and batch jobs to a bespoke enterprise integration platform based on FIX 5.0 SP2. Examined STP trade flow in detail for two exchanges (EUREX and CME), and at a high level for LCH, producing analyst materials as follows:
- High level: trade flow diagrams, validated with head of clearing
- Mid level: message mapping specifications, consumed by developers implementing adapters to systems such as GMI and ClearVision
- Low level: test databases and tools, used in reconciling field-level details of new trade flow with legacy trade flows Involved in all aspects of project, particularly coordination and planning of multiple work streams, and definition of deliverables. Acting as Scrum master for UK development team, building relationships with sponsors, and ensuring key deliverables and demos meet expectations. Took particular ownership for defining and modeling the business rules engine, which governed how trades were enriched and routed across the trade flow. As the project progressed, moved to more specialized role, analysing production data feeds in detail to validate migration from current to future trade flow was complete and correct. Challenges included:
- Maintaining integrity of FIX shared vocabulary under pressure of various in-house systems demanding point-to-point transmission of ‘magic’ field and values
- On-boarding new team members and systems to complex middleware system
- Managing scope as data-level testing revealed many detailed exceptions to the general trade flow rules
- Migrating EUREX 13 trade confirmation stream to FIX (the protocols are not similar)
- Understanding and trying to replicate the behavior of vendor-specific trade-flow functionality, particularly Clearvision’s Carte Blanche rules
- Untangling complex logic in GMI trade loads
Peek TrafficSenior Software Engineer
Feb. 2009 - Aug. 2009Maintained large windows application that configured traffic control systems. Application made extensive use of XML and XSLT, and I was able to make recommendations to streamline these files. Although application was build on top of .NET library, it did not use ADO.NET or conventional WinForms, so I had to get up to speed quickly with a great deal of proprietary architecture. Took initiative to restructure Visual Studio solution and version numbering.
B R Dalby ConsultingConsultant
Aug. 2008 - Sep. 2017Analysing, designing and delivering bespoke integration systems. Recent projects include:
- PCI DSS bridge between magazine publisher and multiple third party payment processors
- REST API to expose civil engineering management system to suppliers
- Spring Integration pipeline to synchronise content between two third parties
ABN AmroDeveloper
Mar. 2005 - Mar. 2008London, United KingdomWorked with Enterprise Architect to develop asynchronous message broker. Initial brief was to query SalesForce for bulk emails and deliver them via a third party email marketing company's FTP interface. Second release included web service allowing any system to push messages into the queue, and query engine for an SQL database. Created Software Architecture Document and worked closely with DBA to define database tables and stored procedures. Worked iteratively with Research Production team to develop an HTML format for research that could be delivered safely to clients with diverse mail readers. Designed a reusable web application that allowed users to edit the format in a WYSIWYG environment, whilst preserving cross-platform standards. Acted as technical expert in area of HTML email. Worked closely with the Head of Client Subscriptions and the Head of Research Production to launch the first version of the HTML Alert product. Developed layout, authoring tool and workflow iteratively through over forty versions, maintaining confidence of users throughout. Liaised with external email vendor to create message delivery mechanism.
EC1M LimitedDirector
Nov. 2004 - Mar. 2007Providing leadership and direction to the company, also concentrating on marketing and partnerships.
Dalby McLeanPartner
Mar. 2003 - Sep. 2009Partner taking active role in operational management, raising finance and trading decisions.
EvolutionSenior Consultant
Nov. 1998 - Oct. 2004Project manager, senior consultant, senior developer, staff manager; worked primarily in Equity Research, also experience in Fund Management and Private Equity
Jobstream GroupConsultant
Jan. 1995 - Dec. 1998Built financial reporting system in Excel that automatically generated financial accounts in bulk for service companies and trusts.
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