With 15-years experience programming and building teams (more than half of which as a Product Director) I consider myself very fortunate to have seen notable success on multiple occasions with great colleagues, having a lot of fun along the way!
Successfully deployed government contracts related to antiterrorism, software running in police departments across the UK, live broadcasting, healthcare, finance, local authorities and some of the largest retail chains and telecommunications companies in the world - all with rapid return on investment for customers and developing valuable core I.P. and patent portfolio for my employers.
Topics covered in speeches:
* "From Python plights with actual Pirates to catching corrupt cops with C# - a technical retrospective to help improve your real-world coding skills"
* Practical .NET SOLID principles
* Improving InfoSec via Account-less security
* Take the business logic out of your code! (Separating Project from Product)
Countries speeches given in:
* UK
* Poland
* Qatar
Areas in speciality involve:
* Building engaging Compliance/Governance systems
* Producing secure software, passing independent penetrating testing
* Ethical, SOLID & iteratively improved code
* Interviewing techniques, growing teams
* Complex data pipelines
* Enterprise-grade scalability
* Software design and implementation
* Continuous Integration
* Business case 1st - driven strategy
* Test - driven development
* Presenting to large audiences
* Cloud technologies (PaaS, IaaS, SaaS)
* Docker and Containers
* Finding Zero Day vulnerabilities
Technologies used:
* Windows, macOS, RedHat Linux / CentOS
* SQL Server
* Docker & Kubernetes
* PostgreSQL
* NoSQL incl. elasticsearch
* .NET Framework/dotnet core
* Firewalls
* NIDS/NIPS
* Low-level TCP/IP
* MS Azure
* Google Cloud
* Android
* Jenkins Pipelines
* Groovy
* Qualys
