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Delivery focused full stack engineer, specialising in highly available distributed systems and cloud based infrastructure and automation, with comprehensive web development skills and experience. Strong business orientation with leadership experience, excellent communication skills, and innovation in competitive environments.Engineer @ From February 2015 to Present (9 months) London, United KingdomEngineer @ Building a new digital bank and financial services platform. Joined as a founding engineer, designed and implemented the core platform, along with infrastructure automation and tooling including a continuous integration pipeline and distributed tracing system. - Development of a new micro-service platform, written from scratch in Go and Ruby. - Encapsulation of services in Docker containers with Apache Mesos and Marathon. - RabbitMQ and NSQ for scalable synchronous and asynchronous message delivery. - Development of an open source Distributed Tracing system - Phosphor (https://phosphor.io) - Integration with numerous external systems and protocols including SOAP. From November 2014 to February 2015 (4 months) LondonTechnical Lead, Platform @ Making taxi heaven. For passengers and drivers. Nice. - Worked with a wide range of technologies, including PHP, Ruby, Go, MySQL, Cassandra, Redis, Memcached, RabbitMQ, NSQ, Zookeeper, Docker and numerous AWS services. - Migration from single region PHP/MySQL application to a PHP based Service Oriented Architecture using Cassandra, running on AWS across three continents. - Member of R&D team which re-platformed Hailo to a Go based microservice architecture - Technical Lead of the Platform team, responsible for the platform Hailo runs on, covering architecture, infrastructure design and automation, and tooling for Hailo’s developers. - Design and development of highly available, high throughput services in Go to replace Hailo’s existing PHP and Java infrastructure; including a highly available distributed geo-spacial search engine which tracked drivers in realtime, zoning services for geolocation, and generation of globally unique 64 bit IDs. - Development of highly automated infrastructure on AWS, using Puppet, and bespoke tooling in Ruby and Go; highest contributor to the Go AWS client library. Built tooling that allowed developers to quickly create new environments for testing. - API design & implementation in both JSON over HTTP, and Protocol Buffers over RPC. - Worked on open source Boxen project, creating Puppet modules with custom providers to bootstrap local development environments and laptops for new starters - Spoke about Hailo’s approach to microservice architectures at conferences and meetups in London, France, Russia, and Lithuania. From June 2012 to November 2014 (2 years 6 months) London, United KingdomInstructor (Contract) @ Taught the Back-End Web Development course at General Assembly, London. This was a part time course which taught Ruby on Rails to non developers, helping them towards building their own web applications over a 10 week period. Teaching this programme helped me develop my communication and presentation skills. From June 2014 to October 2014 (5 months) LondonSystems Engineer (Contract) @ Droplet is a secure mobile commerce platform which integrates cashless payment with customised mobile marketing. Worked with the Droplet team on a contract basis; building their Ruby on Rails based API, and building secure, scalable, infrastructure with Amazon Web Services prior to their launch - using EC2, VPC, Network ACLs, RDS and a number of other services. From April 2012 to July 2012 (4 months) Web Team Lead @ Vax is the UK’s best-selling floor care brand and is part of the global TTI Floorcare group. In my role as Web Team Lead I was responsible for development and maintenance of TTIs portfolio of web systems within Europe, the Middle East and Asia. - Consolidated a wide portfolio of custom PHP4 based websites onto a single Magento Enterprise based platform, migrating legacy dedicated server infrastructure to Rackspace Cloud and AWS; using highly available Nginx web proxies for SSL termination and Rackspace Cloud Load Balancers to progressively migrate traffic between two data centres with zero downtime. - Custom integrations for numerous external systems including Microsoft Dynamics (ERP) for stock levels, customer credit limits and order fulfilment; Snap Fulfil (Warehouse management) for order status and tracking codes; and Heat CSM (Helpdesk / Call Centre) for warranty registrations and claims. - Introduction of automated infrastructure management and provisioning using Rackspace Cloud, AWS, Puppet, and automated deployment with Capistrano. - Led a team of 5 developers, consisting of both permanent and contract staff at a range of skill levels, using agile project and team management skills. From May 2011 to June 2012 (1 year 2 months) BirminghamDevelopment Lead @ Wider Plan is an award-winning provider of employee benefits and administration services, including childcare vouchers, and a number of other payroll salary sacrifice schemes. - Led a team of 14, with responsibilities including architecture design, infrastructure management and recruitment, while actively contributing to development. - Redeveloped a number of internal systems to modernise bespoke PHP4 code into Kohana3 (PHP5 MVC framework) applications. Increasing reliability, and improving security to modern standards, while decomposing applications towards a Service Oriented Architecture with internal APIs. This involved the full development lifecycle, from requirements analysis to delivery, using agile development practices. - Development of bespoke financial applications in PHP and Visual Basic with MySQL, including security fixes, architectural optimisation as the organisation scaled, and introduction of development best practices. From July 2008 to May 2011 (2 years 11 months) RedditchBSc, Chemistry @ University of Leicester From 2005 to 2008 Matt Heath is skilled in: Git, Golang, PHP, Ruby, Agile Methodologies, Web Development, Linux System..., Amazon Web Services..., Distributed Systems, High Availability, Muffins, Dog Walking, Go, HTML 5, JavaScript, Capistrano, CSS3, OOP, Puppet, Cassandra, RabbitMQ, MVC, CSS, Subversion, Ruby on Rails, Symfony2, Automation, TDD, Cloud Computing, NSQ, Zookeeper, Project Management, Scrum, AJAX, Continuous Integration, Kohana, jQuery, Design Patterns, Scalability, Databases, Mobile Devices, Front-end, Linux, MySQL, Salesforce.com, E-commerce, SOA, Integration, System Architecture, HTML5