Hey, nice to meet you!
I've been intrigued by technology for as long as I remember. I started immersing into the world of programming since I was 16 through an awesome online tutorial. With my curiosity still not satisfied, I took the following 2 years to study a range of IT topics on my spare time, including networking, security, databases, and Windows Server administration.
PS: The quote at the beginning of this page was borrowed from one of my favourite bands: Scar Symmetry.
Experience
Here's some of what I've worked on over the years at the different companies I've worked for. This is, of course, not exhaustive, and I have also used other technologies on personal projects, so if you have any questions feel free to drop me an email.
- Design, plan, and implement an Azure Governance strategy for the company following Microsoft's CAF and WAF. This plan included establishing platform services (centralization of connectivity, management and identity), standardization of practices such as monitoring, cost management, and other areas.
- Plan and execute a complete migration of Azure workloads in accordance with the designed Azure Governance strategy, creating automation for all workloads.
- Introduce Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Azure Bicep, along with CI/CD pipelines and relevant architecture documentation.
- Architect and lead the implementation of shared services and infrastructure to facilitate development and maintenance for product teams and reduce overall costs.
- Work as the architect for several product teams using varied technologies, focusing on the many cloud aspects and the teams' knowledge.
- Act as technical point of contact for customers looking for specialized SaaS deployments.
- Analyse, plan, and implement a DevSecOps programme (SAST/SCA/DAST) and a Service Management programme.
- Developed highly scalable solutions using containerized ASP.NET Core microservices.
- Designed and implemented several architectures using NServiceBus and AWS Lambdas, backed by SQS queues/SNS topics and SQL/NoSQL databases.
- Developed multiple UI application features using Angular and NgRx, with testing at the unit, integration and end-to-end layers.
- Established multiple patterns within the clan and the wider tribe, such as for logging, middleware and Lambdas.
- Facilitated Agile retrospectives and provided several technical talks to the team, to demonstrate advanced C# features as well as automation and innovation introduced to the product.
- Participated in an agile CFT clan of 16 engineers along with Product and UX, applying Lean and Kanban.
- Participated in the development of over 15 solutions using C#, ASP.NET Core, .NET, and Angular 4+, both in Scrum teams with Test-Driven Development and traditional teams.
- Company leader for technical implementations using Azure services and different design patterns, including the use of Azure SQL and Azure Table Storage.
- Coached and trained junior developers in multiple Microsoft technologies.
- Architected the first public mobile application in the company and executed the project by managing 7 engineers using Xamarin, ASP.NET Core, Identity Server, RabbitMQ and Angular 7.
- Led multiple teams in different environments, gaining their trust through a technical standpoint.
- Proactively developed over 50 tools using C# and .NET to reduce time to solve tickets, one of them earning our team an award for reducing the time to solve a ticket from 2-hours to a couple of minutes.
- Participated in multiple teams to develop over 15 desktop and web applications using .NET technologies and provided training for 4 new hires in C# and .NET technologies.
Education
I am currently studying a series of Business Management courses at The Open University.
- Business management: marketing principles and practice (Grade 2 Pass, 2024)
- Business management: improving organisational practice (Distinction, 2024)
- Business management: people management and leadership (Distinction, 2024)
- Business management: fundamentals of management accounting (Distinction, 2024)
- Business management: project management (Distinction, 2024-2025)
- Business management: financial accounting for non-financial roles (Grade 2 Pass, 2024-2025)
I also completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Technology Management at The Open University in 2022-2023. I achieved this by completing these modules:
Certifications
The following are the certifications I've done over the years:
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (2023-2026)
- Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert (2023-2026)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Cosmos DB Developer Specialty (2023-2026)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate (2022-2026)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (2022-2026)
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (2021-2024)
- Microsoft Exam 483: Programming in C# (2018)