Chris Stapleton-Harper

Experience

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  Centek

  Aug 2008 - May 2010

  Systems and Database Developer
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  Civica

  May 2010 - Jul 2011

  Product Support Analyst

  Provide support to fleet management software

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  Quad Logic Systems Ltd

  Aug 2011 - Jan 2018

  IT Support & Software Developer

  Skills:* Java 8* RMI* JDBC* Jenkins* JavaFX/SwingDevelopment of solutions to integrate between CatDV Media Asset Management software and various archive systems such as Archiware, Quantum StorNext, Atempo Digital Archive, Space and XenData.-- Research new methods and technologies for implementation or to improve testing/packaging-- Create user manuals for solutions -- Test solutions using different versions of CatDV/Archive system along with various formats and namesLiase with customers to develop and implement bespoke solutions.Provide support to customers for both the software integration as well as general IT support. Show less

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  Clarks

  Feb 2018 - Aug 2019

  Software Developer

  Skills:* Java 8* SAP Hybris* HTML/CSS/JavascriptPart of the core development team for the major Payment Service Provider project and the Omni fulfillment phase 2.Helped to diagnose and fix issues affecting the production system.Created a developer setup script that reduces the amount of time to get local environments setup ready for development in a consistent way.Contributed to the automated test script suite to fix minor issues and increase the test coverage.

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  Landmark Information

  Aug 2019 - Jul 2022

  Software Engineer

  Met Office - ClientSkills: * Java 8 * HTML/CSS/JavascriptHelped to improve SEO page rankings.Worked on Bloomreach CMS integration with the website and back-end services.Helped to improve page CLS performance to ensure a good search ranking.Planned and coordinated deployments to the LIVE environment.Investigated automating page performance testing to tie in with PR quality checks.FloodRE - ClientSkills:* Java 8* Angular 1* DropwizardWorked on the FloodRE website providing new features (e.g. Zendesk support system integration) and bug fixes.The site combines a containerised microservice DropWizard backend with Angular front end. Assisted QA with both manual testing and automating of existing tests using Docker on a Jenkins worker node.Updated and improved existing end-to-end tests.Liaised with Infrastructure/Security with regards to automating the testing and for new features.Reduced overall full build time by 2/3 by using parallelisation of the modules and tests.Helped to create a standardised VM for developer use for multi-project use. Able to now create a new VM fully setup for development in under 30 minutes.Improved developer oriented documentation to reduce errors and time required to get development environment up and running.Helped to setup AWS Lambda with API Gateway and corresponding build pipelines. Show less

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  CACI Ltd

  Jul 2022 - now

  Senior Software Engineer

  * Java* React JS* Ansible* Kubernetes* Cucumber/gherkin