Senior Software Engineer - Looking to work within EV or Renewable Energy sectors
An adaptable and forward-thinking Senior Software Engineer with 14 years industry experience and a wide range of skills and knowledge. Experience of the product lifecycle from initial product inception and design through to scale manufacture.
Experienced in system and architecture design, software development and project and team management. Also experienced in all recent versions of Windows, MacOS and major Linux distros.
Areas of Strength
Architecture and System Design Software Development
People Management Team Motivation
Database Design Scalability Improvements
Supplier Liaising Procedure Composition
Personal Skills
Leadership Adaptable Articulate
Forward-thinking Dynamic Driven
Resourceful Confident Enthusiastic
EMPLOYER
Senior Software Engineer (October 2021 - June 2022)
Involved in the design, maintenance and improvement of the software platform the company uses to acquire power-usage data for a device from a smart-plug. This data is then processed to predict faults and give up-to-date information on the amount and type of power being used via the front-end app.
Responsibilities & Duties
Construct sprint planning and goals for the development team
System architecture design and improvement using various AWS Services
Infrastructure as Code design and configuration using AWS Cloudformation
API design using GraphQL deployed using AWS AppSync with database and AWS Lambda data sources
Data ingress and processing via AWS IoT Core and AWS Kinesis
Securing APIs and web applicatons using AWS Cognito
Deploying machine learning models using AWS SageMaker and EKS/Kubernetes
Serverless microservice design using AWS Lambda, AWS Glue and ECS with Docker containers
CI/CD pipeline design using Github Actions
Database design with PostgreSQL deployed on AWS Aurora clusters
Database API design using SQLAlchemy deployed on AWS Lambda
EMPLOYER
Senior Software Architect (April 2019 - October 2021)
Embedded Software Engineer (October 2017 - April 2019)
Involved in the design and manufacture of active ear defenders to protect the hearing of workers “in noise” while still keeping their environmental awareness.
Involved in the design, maintenance and improvement of both the front and back-end of the website, services, databases and system architecture used to store, analyse and display captured data.
Responsibilities & Duties
Engineering team management throughout the design and manufacture process, organising and hiring members of staff of various levels of experience
Project management using Trello, Asana and Jira, organising problem-solving meetings and doing risk assessment while working to Agile principles
System architecture design using AWS EC2 and RDS
Serverless microservice design using AWS Lambda and EKS/Kubernetes with Docker containers
CI/CD pipeline design using Github Actions and AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild
Infrastructure as Code design and configuration using Ansible and Terraform
Back-end software development and REST API design using Django, Flask and PHP for the inventory system and data analysis services
Database design with MariaDB, MySQL and PostgreSQL relational databases and MongoDB document store
Designing and creating production jigs with Python, Tkinter and PyQT for testing and manufacture
EMPLOYER
R&D Firmware Design Engineer (November 2008 - August 2017)
Involved in projects related to electronic smoke generation used to test that commercial smoke alarms conformed to legal regulations.
Responsibilities & Duties
Lead Firmware Design Engineer using Embedded C on NXP Kinetis M0+, Silicon Labs EFM8 and Microchip PIC18 microcontrollers
Lead Software Design Engineer using Visual C++ .Net for writing V&V testing software and firmware upgrade tools
Project Management on multiple projects using Redmine
Education and Qualifications
University (2002 - 2008)
• MSc Eng in Electronic, Computer and Communcations Engineering
• BEng (Hons) in Electronic and Computer Engineering
• MSc Eng in Electronic, Computer and Communications Engineering
• Towards Physics BSc
School (1995 - 2002)
A Levels in Computer Science, Maths and Physics
