Ben Jefferies

Experience

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  Nominet

  Aug 2011 - Jul 2013

  Software Developer

  Whilst working at Nominet I was part of the growing ‘Operational Applications’ team. As a team we were responsible for the Nominet's core registry systems that enable the .uk domain registry.Aside from this I volunteered to be a member of the social committee helping to organise various corporate events suitable for all employees.Aspects of technological interest are: Java, Subversion, Spring Framework, Hibernate, Teamcity, Oracle DBMS, Maven, Ant, Intellij, Kanban, Swing, Elasticsearch, REST Show less

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  Gresham Tech

  Aug 2013 - Apr 2015

  Software Engineer

  Designing and developing scalable REST APIs and server side implementations for Clareti Transaction Control; a class-leading reconciliation system that provides financial institutions with real-time financial certainty in their transaction processing.Aspects of technological interest are: Java, Git, GitFlow, Spring Framework, Gigaspaces, Jenkins, Oracle DBMS, Maven, Eclipse, Kanban, REST

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  Anatwine

  Apr 2015 - Aug 2015

  Java Developer

  Anatwine is a leading integration platform integrating the world’s largest fashion brands to the largest fashion retailer. The platform is super flexible and can be easily integrated with using exposed APIs or in-house custom integration applications. Anatwine is hosted in AWS allowing them to leverage technologies such as S3, SQS, DynamoDB and scalable virtual instances.

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  Landmark Information Group

  Aug 2015 - Feb 2016

  Contract Java Developer

  Landmark Solutions is collaborating in a government initiated project called Floodre which is an insurance integration system for high flood risk properties. I collaborated in an agile team of 12 including developers, testers, BA’s and product owner. The outcome of the project was a maintainable, automatically tested and deployed array of microservices and web application.

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  ECHOSOFT CONSULTANCY LTD

  Aug 2015 - now

  Director
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  UKHO

  Feb 2016 - Aug 2016

  Contract Big Data Engineer

  The greenfield project I have been involved in enables UKHO to analyse their data to achieve further insights with the potential to provide additional products and services. The data harvested amounts to terabytes of sensory and geospatial data. Continuous delivery at the press of a button is a key aspect to enable fast iterations resulting in faster data analysis. Mentoring and upskilling other members of the team in technical and agile aspects. Researching technologies and performing presentations of research. Show less

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  Office for National Statistics

  Sept 2016 - Apr 2017

  Contract Software Engineer
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  Royal Bank of Scotland Business

  Apr 2017 - Oct 2017

  Contract Software Engineer

  Royal Bank of Scotland is currently redesigning its corporate and private banking platform. The corporate and banking application supports the UK’s largest businesses in making financial transactions. The web app is being rewritten as a single page application utilising modern designs with a scalable microservice architecture.

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  Office for National Statistics

  Nov 2017 - Sept 2018

  Contract Software Engineer

  Office of National Statistics produces official statistics for the UK. The project I have been working on is a survey application which is being used to ingest data for statistical analysis. The survey application is configurable via an authoring tool to allow easy on-boarding of new surveys. The application has been designed to be secure and scalable. Data is encrypted at rest and can only be decrypted when interacting with the user. The survey applications needs to scale to the size of the nation as it will host the next official Census in which the nation will complete the survey online. The application is completely open-source and can be found here https://github.com/ONSdigital/eq-survey-runner. Show less

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  ForgeRock

  Sept 2018 - Feb 2020

  Contract Open Banking Engineer

  Forgerock develops the reference sandbox implementation for Open Banking at https://directory.ob.forgerock.financial. This evolved into building a HA SaaS offering for banks to hit the PSD2 deadlines. We leveraged CI/CD best practices along with Kubernetes to deploy microservices, IAM and MongoDB. We supported the community that uses the sandbox via the official open banking slack channel. At Forgerock I’ve had a hybrid role DevOps/Developer role where I’ve been involved in building and maintaining GKE instances, monitoring, alerting, networking using terraform. We continuously deploy using CI/CD into integration clusters through to multi region, high availability, production clusters via promotion using blue/green deployments using helm, supported by Python scripts baked into docker images. When in development mode I’ve kept the software up to date with the OBIE specification, built a functional test suite in Kotlin and helped in making the software open source at https://github.com/OpenBankingToolkit/. Show less

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  Moneyhub

  Feb 2020 - May 2020

  Contract DevOps Engineer (Remote)

  Moneyhub runs a service to manage your finances. It also offers this product as a SaaS for businesses to help employees manage their finances. At Moneyhub I led the project to migrate their infrastructure to Kubernetes in AWS (EKS), putting in best practices such as GitOps to version their resources, GitSecOps to securely manage secrets, and CICD to automate infrastructure and software deployments.

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  Yoello

  May 2020 - Feb 2021

  Contract Software Engineer (Remote)

  Developing and building a financial payment app for Yoello using Serverless, Python, AWS stack for the backend. Typescript, React, React Native for the web and mobile apps.

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  Balu Technologies

  Oct 2020 - now

  Software/DevOps engineer
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  Sero

  Feb 2021 - Sept 2023

  Contract Software Engineer (Remote)

  Helping grow the software engineering team whilst guiding and advising on best working and technical practices. Building an IoT platform to scale to millions of telemetry event data coming from thousands of peripherals in homes. Controlling and optimising house control to focus on carbon efficiency and comfort. Developing and building apps to support transitioning homes to carbon zero.

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  VEV

  Sept 2023 - now

  Software/DevOps Engineer

  Led the transformation to a resilient, highly available Kubernetes environment governed by Infrastructure as Code (IaC), significantly improving its stability and scalability. Revitalised monitoring and alert mechanisms, enabling more preemptive identification and management of system issues. Facilitated a shift towards increased team agility and enhanced communication, streamlining project execution and collaboration. Engaging and driving re-architecture of the platform to enhance scalability and redundancy. Show less