CTO at Skyscanner
London, Greater London, United Kingdom
Skrill
VP IT Solutions Delivery
February 2014 to Present
London, United Kingdom
RightScale
Sr. Director Software Development
July 2011 to January 2014
Santa Barbara, California Area
VeriSign (Symantec)
Engineering Director
March 2010 to July 2011
San Francisco Bay Area
VeriSign
Snr Development Manager
March 2008 to March 2010
San Francisco Bay Area
VeriSign
Development Manager
June 2006 to March 2008
Cape Town Area, South Africa
Verisign
Engineering Team Lead
January 2005 to May 2006
Cape Town Area, South Africa
Thawte World of Trust - A VeriSign Company
Snr Software Engineer
March 2004 to January 2005
Cape Town Area, South Africa
Synapp
Snr Software Engineer and Systems Architect
July 2002 to March 2004
Cape Town Area, South Africa
Saudi Telecoms
Consultant
March 2002 to June 2002
Saudi Arabia
iTouch Labs
Software Engineer
June 2000 to March 2002
Cape Town Area, South Africa
MJVNet
Jnr Engineer and Tech Support Lead
October 1998 to June 2000
Bloemfontein Area, South Africa
What company does George Goodyer work for?
George Goodyer works for Skrill
What is George Goodyer's role at Skrill?
George Goodyer is VP IT Solutions Delivery
What industry does George Goodyer work in?
George Goodyer works in the Computer Software industry.
Who are George Goodyer's colleagues?
George Goodyer's colleagues are Scott Tierney, Rene Argento, Andres Moritan, Jason Flegel, Rachelle Yee, Jim Tan, Chirag Gupta, Filip Filipov, Jose Alonso, and Carles Barrobés
📖 Summary
Strong technical background with exposure to all facets of the software development life cycle, hands on implementation and design with a focus on software as a service. Experienced in both fortune 500 and start-up organizations, managing distributed workforces and process requirements at different levels of maturity. Solving business needs in both the context of real-time e-commerce and cloud based performance and volume orientated problem spaces. A technical business partner that can participate in product life cycle and customer communications. Ultimately solving technical problems, keeping my hands dirty and always coding, leading teams in the pursuit of quality products is my passion and enjoying the journey is key... Specialties: • Java based enterprise level e-commerce solutions. • High availability, scale and throughput solutions. • Linux operating systems and Open Source usage • Technical leadership • Agile methodologies ( ScrumMaster, TDD, CI )VP IT Solutions Delivery @ From February 2014 to Present (1 year 11 months) London, United KingdomSr. Director Software Development @ Responsible for the development and maintenance of the RightScale multi-cloud core, api and dashboard components. * Day to day management of the production support team and several development teams, distributed across 3 continents. * Standardized the agile workflow across teams and their dependencies in order to gain uniform insights in order to continue optimizing and measure successes. * Ongoing enhancements of development best practices and metrics. * Successfully initiated and continue to manage a near sourcing initiative. * Manage the Capitalized Labor for the engineering organization and interface directly with the auditors as needed. * Took advantages of prior Capitalized Labor experience and the desire to remaining hands on in terms of development to write tooling that automates the process as much as possible, evidence can be generated on demand for any range requested. * Successfully transitioning the engineering organizations processes to include the needed in order to obtain SSAE-16 certification.(Level 1 completed) * Again developed a suite of tools that audit the SSAE-16 lifecycle in an ongoing fashion in order to ensure our success. * Being part of a very talented team which is solving complex problems across multiple cloud providers, I have learnt a great deal about "Cloud", the capabilities, complexities and feature sets. * Being a cloud management system, the scaling needs and volumes associated with RightScale has supplied great opportunities to participate in the supporting architectures required. Clouds: * Amazon Web Services * Datapipe Stratosphere * Google Compute Engine * HP Cloud * IDC Frontier * Logicworks * Rackspace Cloud * Softlayer Cloudlayer * Windows Azure * Cloudstack * Openstack * Eucalyptus Technologies (briefly): * Ruby * Rails * Rest * Java (jetty, storm, json-lib, jerichohtml, jersey, jenkins ...) * AMQP * Backbone.js * nojs From July 2011 to January 2014 (2 years 7 months) Santa Barbara, California AreaEngineering Director @ Responsible for the development and maintenance on the SSL core and retail product lines. (recognizing $100M dollars of revenue annually) • Day to day management of first line management, and front-end and back-end engineers of varied calibers. • Enforce best practices in software development, change management and architecture. • Work with the broader engineering organization on architectural and technical solution to ensure that we find synergies where possible and ensure we retain a well balanced ecosystem. • Converse with the product organization on product requirements, prioritization, trade-offs and deliverable's. • Present engineering and process topics to a number of forums. • Understanding scale and performance with services that see in excess of 3B requests per day. Technology Stack: • Application Server: JBoss • Database: Oracle • Development languages: Java/Python/C/C++ • Technologies: Spring, Hibernate, J2EE, BouncyCastle, JMS, Quartz, Casandra, Hadoop • Operating System: Red Hat Linux • PKI and HSM's • AWS Managerial Responsibilities: • Product, project and customer interactions • SDLC practices and measurement • Annual audit processes • Responsible for the Core and Retail product suites for VeriSign and Thawte. Architecture inputs: • Programmatic Design • System level Design (Fail-over and scalability) • Localization • Performance and response times optimization Projects: • VeriSign Certificate Center (J2EE,JBOSS,Apache) • VeriSign Certificate Center Enterprise (J2EE,JBOSS,Apache) • VeriSign and Thawte Seal • OSCP • CRL • Time-stamping/Digital Notarization • ACS • CodeSigning/OFX/Brew/WLAN portal • Back office infrastructure • Trust Services • Ceritificate issuance and management engine • Thawte Certificate Center. • Integration API's Recognition • VeriSign Authentication Tech Symposium Awards 2010 • VeriSign Spot light Award 2010 • VeriSign FlyWheel Award 2010 From March 2010 to July 2011 (1 year 5 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSnr Development Manager @ In the role of Snr Development Manager, I transitioned the Cape Town teams management and recruited a new US based team remotely and managed the team and product delivery remotely. In August 2008 I relocated to the US and shortly after took on additional responsibility. Technology Stack: • Application Server: JBoss • Database: MySQL/Oracle • Development languages: Java/Python/C/C++ • Technologies: Spring, Hibernate, J2EE, BouncyCastle, JMS, Quartz • Operating System: Red Hat Linux Managerial Responsibilities: • Managed a team of 35 developers • The team was located in both South Africa and United States • Product, project and customer interactions • SDLC practices and measurement • Annual audit processes • Responsible for the Core and Retail product suites for VeriSign and Thawte. Architecture inputs: • Programmatic Design • System level Design (Fail-over and scalability) • Localization • Performance and response times optimization Projects: • VeriSign Certificate Center (J2EE,JBOSS,Apache) • VeriSign Certificate Center Enterprise (J2EE,JBOSS,Apache) • VeriSign and Thawte Seal • OSCP • CRL • Time-stamping/Digital Notarization • ACS • CodeSigning/OFX/Brew/WLAN portal • Back office infrastructure • Trust Services • Ceritificate issuance and management engine • Thawte Certificate Center • Integration API's Recognition: • VeriSign CTO Leadership Excellence Award 2008 • VeriSign Authentication Award of Excellence 2009 From March 2008 to March 2010 (2 years 1 month) San Francisco Bay AreaDevelopment Manager @ In the role of Development Manager, I remained physically located in Cape Town South Africa, reporting to the Engineering Director in Mountain View, California, US. This was valuable offshore experience both in the context in the context off product delivery but also as it related to working independently. Technology Stack: • Application Server:JBoss • Database:MySQL • Development languages:Java/Python/C/C++ • Technologies:Spring,Hibernate,J2EE,BouncyCastle,ActionScript • Operating System: Red Hat Linux Managerial Responsibilities: • Managed a team of 8-10 developers and 3/4 QA • Product,project and customer interactions • SDLC practices and measurement • Annual audit processes Architecture inputs: • Programmatic Design • System level Design (Fail-over and scalability) • Localization Projects: • Reseller Channel Customer/Internal facing (J2EE,Jboss,Apache) • Retail Channel (Pojo/Jboss,Apache/Hibernate/Spring) • Back Office Admin (Python CGI/Apache) • Referral Channel/Finance/Commissions (J2EE,Jboss,Apache) • Partner API's - RPC/REST/SOAP - (J2SDK/AXIS/Jboss/Apache) • Shockwave Integration Client - (ActionScript/XML) • Extended Validation • OCSP • CRL From June 2006 to March 2008 (1 year 10 months) Cape Town Area, South AfricaEngineering Team Lead @ In the role of Engineering Team Lead, I was physically located in Cape Town South Africa, reporting to the Engineering Director in Mountain View, California, US. This was valuable offshore experience both in the context in the context off product delivery but also as it related to working independently. Technology Stack: • Application Server:JBoss • Database:MySQL • Development languages:Java/Python/C/C++ • Technologies:Spring,Hibernate,J2EE,BouncyCastle,ActionScript Managerial Responsibilities: • Managed a team of 8-10 developers and 3/4 QA • Product,project and customer interactions • SDLC practices and measurement • Annual audit processes Architecture inputs: • Programmatic Design • System level Design (Fail-over and scalability) • Localization Projects: • Reseller Channel Customer/Internal facing (J2EE,Jboss,Apache) • Retail Channel (Pojo/Jboss,Apache/Hibernate/Spring) • Back Office Admin (Python CGI/Apache) • Referral Channel/Finance/Commissions (J2EE,Jboss,Apache) • Partner API's - RPC/REST/SOAP - (J2SDK/AXIS/Jboss/Apache) • Shockwave Integration Client - (ActionScript/XML) • Extended Validation • OCSP • CRL From January 2005 to May 2006 (1 year 5 months) Cape Town Area, South AfricaSnr Software Engineer @ Technology Stack: • Application Server:JBoss • Database:MySQL • Development languages:Java/Python/C/C++ • Technologies:Spring,Hibernate,J2EE,BouncyCastle,XSL/XSL/JSP • Operating System: Debian Linux Projects: • Reseller Channel Customer/Internal facing (J2EE,Jboss,Apache) • Retail Channel (Pojo/Jboss,Apache/Hibernate/Spring) • Back Office Admin (Python CGI/Apache) • Referral Channel/Finance/Commissions (J2EE,Jboss,Apache) • Email Templatization/Management - (J2SDK,Jboss,Apache) • Thawte retail migration to the VeriSign infrastructure (Soap,Jboss,Apache,Sprint,J2EE) • Thawte site seal Recognition • VeriSign Award of Excellence 2004 From March 2004 to January 2005 (11 months) Cape Town Area, South AfricaSnr Software Engineer and Systems Architect @ The role of a Systems architect included: • Interfacing with the user(s) and sponsor(s) and all other stakeholders in order to determine their (evolving) needs. • Generating the highest level of system requirements, based on the user's needs and other constraints such as cost and schedule. • Ensuring that this set of high level requirements is consistent, complete, correct, and operationally defined. • Partitioning large systems into (successive layers of) subsystems and components each of which can be handled by a single engineer or team of engineers or subordinate architect. • Ensuring that a maximally robust architecture is developed. In the role of Senior Software Engineer: • Full life-cycle application development • Designing, coding and debugging applications in various software languages. • Software analysis, code analysis, requirements analysis, software review, identification of code metrics, system risk analysis, software reliability analysis • Object-oriented Design and Analysis (OOA and OOD) • Software modeling and simulation • Front end graphical user interface design • Software testing and quality assurance • Performance tuning, improvement, balancing, usability, automation. • Support, maintain and document software functionality • Integrate software with existing systems • Evaluate and identify new technologies for implementation • Project Planning and Project Management • Maintain standards compliance • Implement localization or globalization of software Technology Stack: • Application Server:JBoss • Database:PostgreSQL • Development languages:J2EE/J2ME/J2SDK • Operating System: Debian Linux Projects: • Gaming Engine (J2SDK,J2EE,J2ME) • Forex trading System (J2SDK,J2EE) • Mobile instant Messaging (J2SDK,J2ME,J2EE,Jabber) • Point of sales systems (J2SDK,J2EE) From July 2002 to March 2004 (1 year 9 months) Cape Town Area, South AfricaConsultant @ • Full lifecycle application development • Designing, coding and debugging applications in various software languages. • Software analysis, code analysis, requirements analysis, software review, identification of code metrics, system risk analysis, software reliability analysis • Object-oriented Design and Analysis (OOA and OOD) • Software modeling and simulation • Front end graphical user interface design • Software testing and quality assurance • Performance tuning, improvement, balancing, usability, automation. • Support, maintain and document software functionality • Integrate software with existing systems • Evaluate and identify new technologies for implementation • Project Planning and Project Management • Maintain standards compliance • Implement localization or globalization of software Technology Stack: • Application Server:JRun • Database:Oracle • Development languages:J2EE/J2SDK • Operating System: Windows NT Project: • Portal and banking integrations- (J2SDK,J2EE,TIBCO messaging) From March 2002 to June 2002 (4 months) Saudi ArabiaSoftware Engineer @ In the role of Software Engineer: • Full lifecycle application development • Designing, coding and debugging applications in various software languages. • Software analysis, code analysis, requirements analysis, software review, identification of code metrics, system risk analysis, software reliability analysis • Object-oriented Design and Analysis (OOA and OOD) • Software modeling and simulation • Front end graphical user interface design • Software testing and quality assurance • Performance tuning, improvement, balancing, usability, automation. • Support, maintain and document software functionality • Integrate software with existing systems • Evaluate and identify new technologies for implementation • Maintain standards compliance Technology Stack: • Application Server:IBM WebSphere • Database:Sybase • Development languages:PHP/JAVA/XML/XSL • Operating System: Red Hat Linux Projects: • SMS chat (J2SDK/JSP) • SMS voting (J2SDK/JSP) • Content management System (Java) • In house Portal Framework (PHP, XSLT) • WEB/WAP mail (PHP) • Corporate Intranet (PHP) • Time tracking tool (J2SDK/JSP) From June 2000 to March 2002 (1 year 10 months) Cape Town Area, South AfricaJnr Engineer and Tech Support Lead @ In the role of Junior Engineer and Tech Support Lead: • Website development and maintenance • Technical support for customers via phone and email • Fundamental Unix systems administration • Scheduling and issue resolution with subordinate tech support staff. (5) Technology Stack: • Database:MSQL • Development languages:PHP/Shell/C • System administration: SCO Unix Projects: • ISP setup • MJVNet portal • Back Office tools From October 1998 to June 2000 (1 year 9 months) Bloemfontein Area, South Africa George Goodyer is skilled in: Certified Scrum Master CSM, Java, C, C++, PHP, High Performance Computing, Python, SDLC, J2ME, J2EE, J2EE Architecture, Web Services, Linux, Technical Leadership, Continuous Integration
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