Self-taught developer with 4+ years experience in .NET. Strong interest in best practices, automated testing and high-quality documentation. 1st class honours degree in English from the University of York (2015 - 2018).

Experience

DB Cargo UK - Technical Advancement Specialist (2022 - Present)

Promotion to a new role focused on modernising a legacy solution. Some achievements:

  • Upgrading 100+ intertwined .NET Framework projects to .NET Core

  • Crafting a comprehensive developer documentation portal from scratch

  • Transitioning a Windows server backend to cloud-native services hosted on AWS Fargate using Docker

  • Moving developer teams from an on-prem TFS installation to Azure DevOps

  • Implementing OpenTelemetry to reduce monthly cloud spend by 10%+

  • Automating and standardising our build-test-deploy cycle across apps and environments

  • Curating and leading a training and upskilling course for other developers

  • Creating bespoke tooling to suit development and business needs

DB Cargo UK - Junior Developer (2021 - 2022)

Hands-on C# development with a large business-critical microservices platform. Technology used: ASP.NET (classic and Core), Winforms, SQL Server, MSMQ, Team Foundation Server, Git.

Gained ‘real-world’ experience debugging a distributed system; personally resolved expensive (£100k+/day) business incidents and outages. Specified, architected, implemented and deployed successful new projects with similar projected business value.

Also trained in OutSystems, a low-code platform, and the UI automation suite Leapwork.

Freelance copywriting (2019 - 2021)

Content creation, copywriting, editing for domestic and international clients.

Topics included technology, marketing, science.