Chris Stapleton-Harper

Chris Stapleton-Harper

Systems and Database Developer

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Software Developer

  • Education

    • Weymouth College

      2002 - 2004
      NVQ 3 Installing & Supporting IT
    • Weymouth College

      2000 - 2002
      Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Studies
    • University of Plymouth

      2004 - 2008
      BSC (Honours) Computer Systems and Networks

      Activities and Societies: UPPS Paintball

  • Experience

    • Centek

      Aug 2008 - May 2010
      Systems and Database Developer
    • Civica

      May 2010 - Jul 2011
      Product Support Analyst

      Provide support to fleet management software

    • 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

    • 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.

    • 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

    • CACI Ltd

      Jul 2022 - now
      Senior Software Engineer

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

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