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I am a passionate software engineer eager to learn & try out cutting edge technologies within the industry. I have many years of experience coding, debugging & testing in a variety of languages, most notably Java & Hadoop. I love to find out how different industries use technology to solve solutions & am excited to be part of these innovations that help improve peoples' lives.Software Engineer @ From June 2015 to Present (7 months) London, United KingdomPrinciple Software Engineer, Advanced Marketing Solutions @ - Currently engineering lead in a team of 15 engineers working on Yahoo Gemini reporting, a system to provide advertisers & publishers with detailed information about their campaigns & properties via a UI & an API. Work to drive new revenue by enhancing existing features, implementing new features and incident resolution & reduction. Software stack primarily including Java, Hadoop, Hive, Oracle. About 50% of my time is spent leading, mentoring & ensuring deadlines are met, the other 50% is coding. - Drive the team to move towards a faster, more robust development model with full continuous delivery. - During my time at the company have led a team of 25 engineers to develop a highly-scalable reporting system for self-service users for Yahoo Gemini to support both native & search advertising with an annual run-rate of >$500M (the system I continue to develop). Developed this system from scratch in 3-months. During this time lived on assignment in the USA & acted as the bridge between California & London - working in ‘startup-like conditions’ for much of the time. As the technical lead, led the team (half in USA, half in London), drove deadlines, allocated work, collaborated with product, developed code where necessary. - Developed a keyword forecasting system using trend-based analysis to give advertisers insights into the effects of changing their bid for given keywords. - Developed a native forecasting system using trend-based analysis to give advertisers insights into the effects of changing their bid on their campaigns. From October 2011 to May 2015 (3 years 8 months) London, United KingdomWebsphere MQ Performance Analyst @ - Worked to maintain and improve the performance of JMS, base MQ and the MQI features of Websphere MQ by working closely with the development team, benchmarking and profiling the product in customer-like scenarios. - Designed and wrote MQTT smarter planet applications in Java and C to interface with the newly released MQ Telemetry product. Simulated large numbers of light-weight pervasive devices on Linux and Windows. From April 2010 to September 2011 (1 year 6 months) Java Service Consultant @ - Investigated and resolved complex technical issues arising from unexpected behaviour of the IBM JVM. High pressure client-facing role, often working with dissatisfied customers and under tight time constraints to resolve business critical issues, working overtime when necessary. From August 2005 to March 2010 (4 years 8 months) CICS Software Tester @ - Developed and executed automated tests for the new Web Service items introduced in CICS TS V3.1. - Worked closely with other testers and developers to resolve bugs in a timely fashion. - Wrote tests in C, Java and Cobol. Developed interaction tests with Websphere Application Server. - Published a CICS Web Services how-to article on the IBM Develop-erworks site. - Standardized documentation and coding for tests to ensure quality for entry into regression bucket. - Wrote and maintained a regression test suite lookup service using Apache Tomcat. From September 2003 to July 2005 (1 year 11 months) 2:1, Computer Science @ University of York From 1999 to 2003 Watford Grammar School From 1992 to 1999 Oliver Fenton is skilled in: Java, Software Development, Web Services, Linux, Tomcat, Scrum, Eclipse, JavaScript, C, IBM AIX, AIX, WebSphere MQ, Agile Methodologies, Unix, SQL