About me
I am a Software engineer with 18 years experience.
I have a passion for system design / architecture and bringing those designs to life using
agile processes, test / behaviour driven development to produce customer focused solutions.
I have experience of leading teams and mentoring team members in best practices and approaches.
I work well as a member of a team or individually, communicating with both my peers,
managers and stakeholders.
Please see my profiles below.
Skills
Languages
5 star - ★★★★★
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PHP
<?php
$yearsExperience = 16;
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JavaScript
const yearsExperience = 18;
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SQL
SELECT years_experience FROM skills WHERE language = 'SQL';
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years_experience
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18
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HTML
<dl>
<dt>Years of experience</dt>
<dd>18</dd>
</dl>
Frameworks
5 star - ★★★★★
3 star - ★★★☆☆
Infrastructure
5 star - ★★★★★
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MySQL
SELECT years_experience FROM skills WHERE infrastructure = 'MySQL';
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years_experience
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18
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Postgres
SELECT years_experience FROM skills WHERE infrastructure = 'Postgres';
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years_experience
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6
4 star - ★★★★☆
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Elasticsearch
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RabbitMQ
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Docker
3 star - ★★★☆☆
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MSSQL
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Varnish HTTP Cache
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Nginx
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Rancher
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Kubernetes
Tooling
5 star - ★★★★★
4 star - ★★★★☆
APIs
5 star - ★★★★★
3 star - ★★★☆☆
Methodologies
5 star - ★★★★★
4 star - ★★★☆☆
Industry Knowledge
5 star - ★★★★★
Featured posts
January 22, 2021
When I first started with VictoriaPlum.com (or VictoriaPlumb.com as they were known then) in September 2012,
there was myself and Jon Coates as members of the IT team, that covered everything from development, hosting
and infrastructure. Hosting was...
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