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Working on a variety of technologies for government clients with security clearance.

Amoung the technologies used were: Angular 6, Java, Gitlab, Jenkins, Slack, AWS, Jira, Confluence, HTML5, SASS, React and Jive.

Working as a small member of a remote team, we developed solutions that meet the needs of users by considering the user at every step of the delivery process; from understanding the need to designing the solution and delivery.

We followed the Agile principles, agreeing and delivering on sprint commitments whilst ensuring that code is well-tested in development and using continuous integration to meet the agreed level of quality. Peer review was critical during the development process to ensure that our approach was consistent whilst developing.

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A shorter contract with Breakthrough saw me setting up new infrastructure in AWS for production and staging replacing older technologies with CentOS 7, Nginx and PHP-FPM running through a socket. MySQL was RDS, which was faster than a local instance after testing.

For the front end work, we used Yarn/Npm with gulp, lots of VueJS which was fun and put in various restrictions on the build for linting, codesniffing, etc.

I set up a Pipeline using GitHub and a Jenkins instance to allow the normal checks to occur before automatically deploying to staging when pull requests are merged into the master branch.

For the front end testing, we used Cucumber with Gherkin and a bunch of step definitions for use with Wordpress and Laravel projects.

Whilst setting this all up, I talked the team through the work and created documentation in Markdown so they were able to use it correctly after the contract ended

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Here I worked on a Symfony application which integrated with a Java Spring backend. We used Gulp to build the frontend templates, stylesheets and Javascript.

We used GitHub following GitHub Flow rules and Jenkins with Slack for our pipeline. Hubot was helpful with automating certain tasks and for providing pugs, of course.

Code coverage was set to fail builds at 80%, along with blocks for PHP Linting, Code sniffing, mess detection, etc.

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A second stint at WTG saw me take the lead of a security cleared project with a team of 6.

We migrated a legacy product over to Laravel and went with RequireJS to manage our front end rather than going for a full AngularJS site due to security and legacy browser concerns.

All PHP code was strictly PSR2 and PSR4 and we employed codesniffers with Git pre-commit hooks to ensure things were fully unit tested and up to standard.

For dependency management, we used composer out of the box from laravel and npm and gulp to manage the front end requirements.

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A smaller project with the start up "BandApp" saw me working with CSS3 and HTML5 to turn a PSD design into a fully responsive single page application compatible from mobile upwards.

At the time AngularJS was new to me and seemed a little buggy, so I built the app to respond to AJAX requests with my own libraries and jQuery plugins then uglified them together using RequireJS.

The backend was mainly CRUD spitting out JSON so didn't need too much attention. There was existing code written in CodeIgniter, so I went with that rather than migrating it all out into Laravel or Slim.

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Working on a security cleared project, I was employed to work in legacy code to help improve and introduce new features.

The biggest challenge faced was the dealing with the interdependent spaghetti code that you often find in projects that are 10 years old. To improve things, we introduced dependency management via composer and release management using Phing.

During my time here, I introduced new features such as enhanced security functionality to comply with new government standards to avoid DDOS and other attacks as well as advanced interest calculation code to deal with upcoming changes to legislation.

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Initially I was contracted for 3 months to redevelop the annotation student area written on the Sapphire framework, but my contract was extended a few times and I worked in different areas of the organisation.

Moodle 1.9 and 2.* was the main platform used within the O.U. and I got extensive exposure to it. One feature I created was for downloading courses in the correct XSLT format, having some of my code contributing to the Moodle codebase in Github.

I also did a short stint in the library creating a search indexer in Drupal for the storage of the BBC media in the O.U. archive.

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Working in Cambridge, I was employed to prepare a legacy learning product for McDonald's and Sainbury's for an upcoming government audit.

Using some Symfony components and an in house legacy framework, I had to systematically go through each part of the site and ensure compliance whilst also introducing new features to meet the customer's specification.

The biggest hurdle here was the use of a Window's server and MSSQL; the codebase was too old to introduce an ORM like Doctrine, so we made use of a customised active record factory with code lifted from CodeIgniter.

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Here I got my first introduction into a fully agile environment. Working in a team of 12 developers split up into two teams, we'd start each day with a stand up highlighting blockers and a weekly sprint retrospective to calculate velocity.

We used the Zend framework here which fired out JSON from a RESTful API which was consumed by a few different front end applications, including the main website, mobile apps and some third party applications.

One of the most interesting things we tried here was "Extreme programming", paired programming with one developer writing the unit tests and another writing the methods to pass them.

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I also do some freelance in between contracts and used to exclusively until 2010.

Our client list was extensive, but the highlights were customers such as Orange, T-Mobile, Tesco, Party Pieces, the NHS, the IET, Fish4, Swiftcover and many more smaller companies.

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Before 2007 I worked as the Principal developer for BMC Patrol at T-Mobile. Before that, a manager at ComputaCenter in their monitoring bridge and before that I was a systems administrator.