Oct 2022 – Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

• Maintained the Confluent Hub for Partner and Open Source Kafka Connectors
• Rewrote technical verification guidelines for Kafka native integrations & connectors
• Verified 3rd party Kafka Tiered Storage solutions
• Technical lead in verifying partner kafka integrations per the Connect with Confluent program
• Contributed to Confluent open source projects
• Presented at Apache Kafka meetups
• Organised social events and activities for a fully remote team as a Site Ambassador

Dec 2021 – Oct 2022 · 10 mos · Belfast Metropolitan Area

• Belfast site coordinator for ongoing ISO27k certification work across all teams.
• Developed internal tooling for Influenster sampling campaigns.
• Developed a real time member search pipeline which extracted data from several legacy monoliths
• Developed a new project and APIs to allow sampling campaigns to accurately track inventory in real time.
• Ran on call rota for uptime of the Influenster application and websites.

Aug 2021 – Nov 2021 · 3 mos · Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

• Developed home insurance improvements to give better rates for consumers.
• Founding member of DevEx ; tasked to improve API observability enhancements and improve developer tooling.

Jan 2021 – Jul 2021 · 6 mos

Sep 2015 – Jan 2021 · 5 yrs 4 mos

• Software Engineer

May 2012 – Jun 2012 · 1 mo · Belfast

• ICT Migration managed across domains involving six sites across the UK, USA and Africa. Short term contract.

Sep 2011 – Aug 2015 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Belfast

• Java Developer
• SharePoint 2013 Implementation
• ISO20K Foundation Auditor
• Jenkins Cloudbees Certified
• Atlassian Suite Administrator

Mar 2010 – Sep 2010 · 6 mos

• Role involved:
• Business improvement project to review and update quality and calibration procedures for Metrology tools.
• Use of Sigma Six methodology in a live environment. Performing gage studies upon measurement tools
• Submission of reports about tool performance and ensure assigned toolset are performing within specified limits.
• Maintenance of hardware and software related to the operation of a 4 point probe.
• Creation of scripts in JMP6 to query Oracle databases and sort information into statistical formats.
• Creation of production process recipes for use in measurement.

Oct 2007 – Sep 2008 · 11 mos

• Role involved:
• Working as part of a busy 2nd line support team undertaking both team and individual support activities for NI Water IT technical and end user community
• Solving and troubleshooting variety IT/Server based problems.
• Completing backup of all servers on a daily basis.
• Researching new bespoke software solutions to assist users in its operation.
• Management and maintenance of asset inventory system
• Quality assurance of asset register
• Check in and compatibility configuration of new equipment for use in the NI Water network.
• Desktop deployment and distribution of new equipment.
• Management of several third party licenses and issuing of SSL Certificates.
• Creation of images builds for departments deployments
• Individual ownership and management of several large project tasks

May 2004 – Oct 2007 · 3 yrs 5 mos

• Newspaper And Magazines - Role involved:
• Organising the daily stock control of the Newspapers and Magazines deliveries.
• Merchandising to preset plans issued by head office. .
• Customer Service and Supplier liaison
• Supporting others in my department and in store as necessary.
• Production of the in store training guide for my department.