David Young

Joined a new scrum team and played an integral role in building and architecting a new microservice compliance solution for PayTech’s payment systems. This solution enabled real-time fraud and money laundering detection, required to meet their compliance obligations.

• Implemented a high performance low latency message driven data transformation / adapter services
• Collaborated with external partners to design external facing data collection Rest API
• Integrated the Featurespace ARIC events API
• Worked closely with platform engineers to configure build pipelines using Maven and AWS CodePipeline
• Mentored Junior developers

Java 17, Spring Boot, Docker, AWS (ECS, SQS, S3), Postgres, Terraform, Jenkins, Bitbucket

Joined an existing fully remote scrum team developing new microservice APIs for handling customer baskets in an existing e-commerce web application.

• Led on the development of the basket migration feature - enabling seamless migration of customer data from the live legacy system
• Introduced Junit 5 features improving maintainability of unit tests whilst improving test coverage
• Mentored junior team members through code reviews and pairing sessions
• Worked closely with QA engineers to triage bugs

Java 11, Spring Boot, MySQL, Docker, AWS (ECS, Secrets Manager), NodeJS, Jenkins, K8s, Github

Led a new fully remote, scrum team composed of permanent staff and offshore contractors, building from the ground up, an event driven microservice framework and UIs for curating data and supporting ML data pipelines.

• Worked closely with product owners and architects on the overall design of the framework, ensuring a robust application and enabling future reuse across the business.
• Designed and oversaw the development of micro-frontend UIs for actioning data curation tasks.
• Designed and co-developed a new CI/CD pipeline ensuring deployed code was fully tested and exceeded required quality standards - integrating with tools such as SonarQube and Contrast
• Mentored junior team members through code reviews ensuring that the application code, business logic and tests were to the highest standards.

Java 11, Spring Boot, React, Kafka, RDS / Postgres, Docker, AWS (EKS, S3, CloudFront, WAF), Jenkins, Spinnaker, Cypress

Blackcat was an agile software development consultancy, serving both large and small organisations, providing expert software delivery teams producing cutting edge custom technology solutions. I was involved in numerous and varied projects.

Blackcat ceased trading January 2021.

Project - Elsevier - Open Access (4 months)

I joined an existing scrum team on a long running project involving the development of several key public facing web applications. I worked on the development of new application features including updating the existing UI flows, replacing legacy code and integration involving Elsevier’s internal payment and invoicing systems. I worked closely with product owners and technical leads to drive improvements to customer user journeys and expand available payment options driving an increase in market share in the Chinese market. I left the project as Blackcat ended its operations, and was immediately hired in a permanent tech lead role in another division of the business.

Java 11, Spring Boot, ReactJs, Bootstrap, AWS Cloud Formation, Postgres, Jenkins, Serenity

Project - Proagrica MDM (8 months)

Myself and a small team of Blackcat consultants started a greenfield project tasked with designing a taxonomy and data lake for storing CRM and product catalogue data. I was primarily involved in the UX design and development of a new single page web application for identifying and maintaining links between similar customer products. I was also responsible for developing REST APIs providing the application data layer for the data lake. This project provided a strong foundation for future data lake backed services providing potentially transformational new business capabilities.

ReactJs, Material UI, Java 11, Spring Boot, K8s, AWS, Jenkins

Project - Elsevier PPE (18 months)

I was the technical lead of a large scrum team assigned with the task of developing a UI and associated services for compiling articles into journals - the first part of a programme of work to modernise the systems involved in journal production. The solution introduced a new microservice architecture and a new React based single page web application. Deployment was via a new continuous delivery pipeline - a first for Elsevier. I worked closely with the product owner and solution architect to lead the design of the technical solution. The foundational work we produced for this project has provided the foundation for several further projects, and has significantly reduced the burden of journal issue compilation for journal managers, reducing time to publication and providing significant cost savings for Elsevier.

Java 11, Spring Boot, ReactJs, Redux, Pact, K8s, MongoDB, Serenity

Project - Informed 360 (6 months)

I was a member of a small scrum team delivering an innovative compliance web application product for a small startup. I was involved in developing new functionality for user stories, optimisation of AWS deployment infrastructure and development of the CI/CD pipeline.

Java 8, Spring Boot, ReactJs, Redux, Terraform, Docker, AWS

Project - Deb Group (9 months)

I was taken on to support a lone internal developer in completing, improving and productionising an Internet-Of-Things Spring Boot backed dashboard web application. My work included web application development - implementing dashboard widgets & charting, the dockerization & deployment of the application in the cloud and also the development of a CI pipeline

Java 8, Spring Boot, Backbone JS, D3.js, Docker, AWS

Project - Thomson Reuters - Regulatory Intelligence (2 years, 10 months)

Initially Joined a scrum team working to add new features to a single page web application written in Java and Dojo UI.

• Became Scrum Master / Tech Lead a Team working on XSLT document transformations.
• Designed and Implemented a solution for on-the-fly pagination of large XML documents.
• Designed and built a test data generation framework

Java 8, Spring, XML, XSLT, Dojo, Gatling / Scala, Dojo, ELK stack