Ian Forsey

Senior Scala Developer, Disney Streaming Services

March 2021 - June 2023

Senior Scala Developer working on Disney+

Highlights

• Scala, cats, AWS, DynamoDB, Git, Docker, gatling
• Designing and implementing performant, high throughput, RESTful APIs for Disney+
• Functional programming style using cats with tagless final encoding
• Designed and deployed production AWS infrastructure

Senior Scala Developer, Sky UK Limited

October 2020 - March 2021

Senior Scala Developer working on NOWTV

Highlights

• Scala, Play, Kubenetes, Docker, Git, gatling
• Identified and implemented various performance and fault tolerance improvements to a high throughput recomendations API
• Played an active role in shaping design decisions
• Created new production AWS infrastructure and took new services to prodution

Senior Scala Developer, Disney Streaming Services

November 2019 - June 2020

Senior Scala Developer working on Disney+

Highlights

• Scala, cats, AWS, DynamoDB, Git, Docker, gatling
• Designing and implementing performant, high throughput, RESTful APIs for Disney+
• Functional programming style using cats with tagless final encoding
• Designed and deployed production AWS infrastructure

Senior Software Engineer, Barclaycard

October 2018 - April 2019

Senior Java Developer building new features for Barclaycard Payment Solutions

Highlights

• Implementing new features for Barclaycard's Smartpay payment gateway
• Java, Oracle 12c, Git
• Became a certfied SAFe practioner

Senior Java Developer, Barclaycard

October 2017 - May 2018

Senior Java Developer building new features for Barclaycard Payment Solutions

Highlights

• Integrated Vocalink's Pay By Bank App into Barclaycard's ecommerce Smartpay payment gateway
• Built support for Oracle Simphony point-of-sale into Barclaycard's in-store Smartpay payment gateway
• Java, Oracle 11g, Git
• Provided a beginners Git workshop to aid in a SVN to Git migrarion

Senior Scala Developer, HMRC

February 2017 - July 2017

Senior Scala Developer in the Government Gateway team, supporting the sign-in pages

Highlights

• Added new user flows for Multi-Factor-Authentication
• Migrated Agent registration to HMRC's current platform
• Upgraded from Play 2.3 to 2.5 across ~10 microservices
• Scala, Play, MongoDB, Gatling, Git

Principal Developer, Net-A-Porter

November 2014 - January 2017

One of four Principal Developers in a 300 strong IT team. Working in a agile environment, shaping the technical direction of the Product Team by building available, scalable and fault tolerant applications that expose product data to the customer

Highlights

• Scala, Akka, Spray, Gatling, Git
• AWS EC2, Autoscaling, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, S3
• Successfully served thousands of req/sec from the Net-A-Porter RESTful product API on sale days
• Ran internal Scala workshops many times over the last two years for a total of 80+ people

Senior Developer, Net-A-Porter

December 2013 - November 2014

Member of the Product Team, building the Net-A-Porter product API

Highlights

• Scala, Akka, Spray, Solr
• Committer to the popular spray/akka-http library, contributing redirection support
• Active member of the Net-A-Porter techblog

Java Developer, Net-A-Porter

May 2010 - December 2013

Member of the Labs Team working on both long term project, as well as building prototypes and proof of concepts using a variety of different languages and technologies

Highlights

• Scala, Akka, Spray, MySql, Lift, Java, Spring
• Introduced Scala to the company
• Instigated the company move to a microservice architecture

Junior Java Developer, Net-A-Porter

December 2008 - May 2010

Worked on the release of theOutnet.com

Junior Java Developer, Avenca

June 2006 - July 2008

Software analysis of black box recorder data for trains and ships