I'm Ian, a passionate software developer with 17 years of experience, primarily in Scala, although I enjoy working across a broad range of languages and technologies. I've contributed to open-source projects, spoken at industry conferences, and led training workshops at previous roles. I'm currently seeking a new challenge with a team that shares my enthusiasm for building great software.
Senior member of a team that owned several high traffic services
Built services from the ground up as part of a company-wide replatform
Authored architectural design proposals and worked with other teams to get them approved and successfully implemented
Designed and deployed production AWS infrastructure
Scala, cats, AWS, Git, Docker, gatling, typescript, cdk, terraform
Note: This period includes a four month sabbatical to spend time with family
Designed and implemented performant, high throughput, APIs for Disney+
Functional programming style using cats with tagless final encoding
Designed and deployed production AWS infrastructure
Scala, cats, AWS, DynamoDB, Git, Docker, gatling, terrform
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
Scala, Play, Kubenetes, Docker, Git, 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
Scala, cats, AWS, DynamoDB, Git, Docker, gatling
Senior Java Developer building new features for Barclaycard Payment Solutions
Integrated Pay By Bank App into Barclaycard's payment gateway
Built support for Oracle Simphony point-of-sale into Barclaycard's payment gateway
Became a certfied SAFe practioner
Provided a beginners Git workshop to aid in a SVN to Git migrarion
Java, Oracle 12c, Git
Note: This period includes a four month sabbatical to spend time with family
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
Progressed over an eight year period from Junior Developer, Senior Developer and finally to one of four Principal Developers in a 300 strong IT team
Build software to serve thousands of req/sec on sale days
Introduced Scala and instigated the company move to microservices
Committer to the popular akka-http library
Ran Scala workshops for a total of 80+ employees
Active member of the Net-A-Porter techblog
Scala, Akka, Spray, Gatling, Git, AWS
Software analysis of black box recorder data for trains and ships
Presented lessons learned whilst building the Net-A-Poter RESTful Product API in Scala and Spray
Presented our use of the Actor Per Request model for the Wish List API at Net-A-Porter
A day of running a workshop for groups of 13-14 year old students, with the aim of getting them excited about working in technology!
Demoed the Net-A-Porter GoogleTV App in a booth decked out to look like a living room
scala-uri was a small Scala library for working with URIs. It was used by hundreds open source projects on github, including The Guardian on their homepage!