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A passionate .NET developer with fifteen years' experience developing solutions for international markets.
.NET Developer, Architect, Team Lead, Project Lead, Business Analyst
Speaker, Coach, Workshop Leader, OSS Guru, Contributor to .NET Core
A passionate .NET developer with fifteen years' experience developing solutions for international markets.
Love being client facing and learning new business domains.
Passionate about requirements and stakeholder satisfaction.
Architecting scalable, resilient cloud solutions be that microservices, public RESTful APIs, asynchronous messaging/event-driven systems to traditional MVC/MVVM fronted by the latest Javascript frameworks.
And learn any new ingredients that might be needed.
Project-management skills including agile, kanban, sprint/release rituals, work breakdown and targeting.
A coach and mentor committed to the growth and development of team members.
And learning from my peers.
Architect and lead on the OSS resilience library Polly.
My community engagement and technical vision has taken the library to multi-million downloads.
Polly was accepted into the .NET Foundation autumn 2016 - one of only twenty-five non-Microsoft projects worldwide at the time.
Committer to ASP.NET Core, working directly with the ASP.NET Core team based in Seattle to integrate Polly into ASP.NET Core.
Experienced leading hackathons, workshops and speaking about OSS.
I am a member of the AppvNext consortium of developers, led by industry veteran Carl Franklin of Dot Net Rocks.
Ok, for the acronym fest:
Azure Compute (AppService, Functions, Durable Functions, Entity Functions), Storage (CosmosDB, Azure Storage, Azure Redis cache etc), Integration (Service Bus, Event Grid), Configuration and DevOps (ARM templates, AppInsights, Alerts, Metrics, Log Analytics, InfluxDB/Grafana, Monitor, Traffic Manager, API Management, App Configuration, Key Vault), Asp.Net Core, .Net Core/Standard, microservices, resilience in distributed systems/the cloud, Containers, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Web API, REST, RabbitMQ, Polly, Entity Framework, nHibernate, NPoco, SQLServer, MongoDB, Bootstrap, CSS, AJAX, React, JQuery, WPF/XAML, XML, XSLT, UAT, TDD, Moq, NUnit, XUnit, Fluent Assertions, Cake, Git, TFS, AppVeyor, TeamCity, dependency injection/IoC, SAML/SSO. All backed by strong OO design skills.
Based in south-west UK, within reach of London.
Happy in-house or remote - proven highly-effective remote worker.
Variously past and present I've been a commissioned and published travel photographer, field botanist, trained copy-editor/proofreader, pianist in a jazz band, and chair of a charity.
Full CV available to interested parties; or call +44/0 7913 629454 to talk.