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Clare in a few words
Versatile AWS CLOUD DEVOPS ENGINEER and FULL STACK DEVELOPER with a strong commercial focus and over 25 years’ experience in the requirements capture, design, development, test, integration, support and project management of enterprise-scale applications in the Finance, Government, Telecommunications, Internet and eCommerce industries.
AWS Certified Dev Ops Engineer - Professional
AWS Certified Developer - Associate
Oracle Certified Professional - Java SE 11 & 7 Programmer II
Frameworks: Spring/SpringBoot, Node.js, FastAPI/NumPy/Pandas, Spring MVC, Java EE, Java 11 Module
AWS: Cloud Full VPC config, EC2, ECS/EKS, ECR/Docker, Lambda/Layers, Step Functions, EventBridge, S3, CloudFront/API Gateway/VPC Link, IAM/Cognito/oauth2, ElasticCache/Redis Cache, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudFormation/SAM/Terraform/JSON/YAML, CloudWatch/CloudTrail, Athena, Route 53, Bastion, X-Ray
Middleware/Back End: JBoss EAP, Apache Tomcat, Message-driven (JMS), Session and Entity Beans (EJB), Web services (REST/SOAP/XML), Java NIO/Sockets/ByteBuffers, Drools, JBPM, JPA/Hibernate, HTTPS/SSL, XML/XSLT, RabbitMQ, Camunda, Kafka
Front End: HTML, CSS, Typescript, JavaScript, Angular, Jinja, JQuery, Servlets/JSP, Freemarker, JasperReports, Web scraping technologies
Languages: Java, Python, Groovy, VB, Delphi, Omnis, P4, numerous others
OS: Linux (Ubuntu and Oracle), Windows Server, Bash and Powershell scripting
Database: MySQL, PostgresSQL, MariaDB, DynamoDB, Oracle, SQLServer, Aurora
Continuous Integration: GitLab CI, Circle CI, Ansible, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline, Sonar, GOCD
Orchestration: ECS, Kubernetes, Camunda/Kafka
Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry, Splunk, OhDear, Datadog
Design, Test & Deployment Tools: Pytest, Unittest, JMeter, Postman, JUnit, EasyMock, Mockito, Selenium, Cucumber, ANT, Ansible, Gradle, Maven, Git, Subversion, SQL Developer, SOAPUI, IntelliJ, Eclipse, Visual Studio Code
Third-Party App Integrations: SAP, Shopify/GraphQL,Yotpo, Klaviyo, Deposco, Salsify
Experience
- Coty International (AE)Platform Software Engineer – AWSLUXURY GOODSApril 2023 - June 2024 (1 year and 2 months)Responsible for the design, development and configuration of a wide range of AWS-hosted back-office/platform support services - including a greenfield global loyalty program - for the e-Commerce platform of a global beauty company.
- CloudFormation/SAM configuration of a wide range of AWS resources
- Development of microservices and Lambda functions using mainly Python
- Configuration of orchestration and monitoring tools to support rollout
- Integration with third-party e-Commerce systems including Shopify, Yotpo, Klaviyo, Deposco and Salsify
- Bash/Python scripting to support continuous integration/maintenance
- Greenfield and Brownfield solutions
AWS: CloudFormation/SAM/JSON/YAML, VPC/Route 53, ECS, ECR/Docker, EC2, Lambda/Layers, S3, IAM/Cognito/oauth2, ElastiCache/Redis Cache, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager, RDS/PostgresSQL, DynamoDB, Systems ManagerOther: Python/FastAPI/NumPy/Pandas, Shopify API/GraphQL, Jinja, Bash Scripting, REST, Swagger, Pytest, Unittest, GitLab CI, Circle CI, Sentry, OhDear - CrederaGovernment (DWP Digital) Data Transformation Project on AWSDIGITAL & ITMay 2021 - February 2023 (1 year and 10 months)London, UKResponsible for the design, development and configuration of data transformation services using Hashicorp Vault hosted on AWS Cloud for a major Government project.
- Terraform configuration of a wide range of AWS resources
- Development of container microservices using Java
- Development of Lambda functions using Node.js and Python
- Configuration of orchestration and monitoring tools to support rollout
- Bash/Python scripting to support continuous integration/maintenance
- Greenfield and Brownfield solutions
AWS: Terraform/JSON/YAML, VPC/Route 53, EKS, ECR/Docker, EC2, Lambda, S3, IAM, ElastiCache/Redis Cache, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager, RDS/MySQL, DynamoDB, Systems ManagerOther: HashiCorp Vault, Prometheus/Grafana, Splunk, SpringBoot, Java 8/11, Node.js, Python, Bash Scripting, REST, Swagger, Mockito, JMeter, GitLab CI, Maven - BTWireless Account Manager (AWS Migration) and Site Build Automation Projects at BT WifiTELECOMMUNICATIONSFebruary 2019 - October 2020 (1 year and 8 months)Ipswich, England, United KingdomResponsible for the design and delivery of the first AWS implementation project for BTWifi.
- Phase 1 - Migrated business-critical SpringBoot application from on-prem onto AWS
- Phase 2 - Created new Lambda microservices application on AWS
- Included upgrade from Java 8 to Java 11
- Configured AWS CloudFormation YAML/JSON and BT Pipeline Terraform templates
- Trained permanent members of staff on AWS
AWS: CloudFormation/JSON/YAML, ECS/EKS (Kubernetes), Docker, EC2, Lambda, S3, API Gateway/VPC Link, IAM, Cognito, JWT Authorisation, RDS Aurora, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Athena, VPC, Route 53, X-RayOther: SpringBoot, Java 8/11, Node.js, Python, Groovy, Bash Scripting, REST, Swagger, Ansible, Gradle, EasyMock, Mockito, JMeter, Postman, Jenkins, Bamboo, Camunda, Kafka, Sentry
1 recommendation
VG
Vivien Giraud recommend Clare
11/11/2024
Working with Clare was a real privilege. She’s skilled and brings a level of care and attention to every project that’s rare to find. As Senior Python/AWS developers, we handled some high-stakes, complex applications together, and Clare was always a steady hand, finding effective solutions and implementing them seamlessly.
She’s proactive, reliable, and has a great way of tackling challenges calmly and efficiently. Clare is someone you can truly count on, and any team would be lucky to have her expertise and positive attitude.
She’s proactive, reliable, and has a great way of tackling challenges calmly and efficiently. Clare is someone you can truly count on, and any team would be lucky to have her expertise and positive attitude.
Education
- BSc, Technology and Business Studies (Computer Science with Marketing)University of Strathclyde1991BSc, Technology and Business Studies (Computer Science with Marketing)
- Postgraduate Diploma in Human Resource Management, Human Resources Management and ServicesNapier University1993Postgraduate Diploma in Human Resource Management, Human Resources Management and Services
Certifications
- AWS DevOps ProfessionalAWS2021
- Java 11 Oracle Certified ProfessionalOracle2020