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    <p>I am a senior/lead agile Java Developer with 10+ years of professional Java development with a strong focus on test and DevOps driven development. </p> <p>A technology entrepreneur, I co-founded and sold legal-tech start-up The Law Wizard. I like solving hard problems with simple and elegant solutions, and in particular building and deploying SaaS platforms.</p> <p><strong>Key Expertise:</strong></p> <ul> <li>10+ years professional experience with strong core Java development using JDK 5, 6, 7 and 8 with extensive exposure to JEE. A deep understanding of concurrency, multi-threading and multi-tenancy</li> <li>In-depth knowledge of many Java frameworks including Spring, Spring MVC, Spring Security, Spring Boot, Ehcache, Hibernate, DropWizard and Jersey;</li> <li>A strong focus on SOA design principles and understanding of Enterprise Integration Patterns, typically providing integration via REST web services JSON;</li> <li>Extensive experience of architecting, implementing and deploying public-facing web applications</li> <li>5+ years hands-on production experience of Cloud deployments with AWS using: EC2, SNS, RDS, SQS, EBS, VPC, Route 53 DNS, S3, CloudFront, ECS, Elastic BeanStalk, OpsWorks, Lambda, EFS;</li> <li>In-depth experience of containers with Docker and Docker Compose including production deployments;</li> <li>Deep understanding of DevOps and CI/CD principles as well as creating build pipelines with a particular focus on Jenkins, Docker and Terraform and Ansible.</li> <li>Enough scripting experience to be proficient (and sometimes dangerous) in Bash and Ruby;</li> <li>Agile enthusiast with good knowledge of Scrum, TDD, BDD, Pair Programming, story planning and mentoring junior team members. Well versed in requirement gathering from non-technical audiences;</li> <li>Deep understanding of tech start-ups inclusive of technology strategy, customer acquisition, sales, funding, marketing and general business administration;</li> </ul>
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