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  <h2>Work</h2>
  <p>Software developer, focused on building simple and scalable applications, with experience in a variety of languages, frameworks, and technologies.</p>

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    <li>Object oriented and functional programming languages</li>
    <li>Ruby, Clojure, Golang</li>
    <li>Software design and architecture</li>
    <li>Data processing, aggregation and delivery</li>
    <li>API development and scaling</li>
    <li>Amazon Web Services and product integration</li>
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  <h2>Current position</h2>
  <h3>Developer at uSwitch</h3>
  <p>Member of the platform team, delivering features to existing applications and building new platforms to support business growth. Products range from internal data aggregation and delivery to external customer facing APIs, using number of technologies and languages, including:</p>

  <ul>
    <li>Ruby</li>
    <li>Clojure</li>
    <li>Golang</li>
    <li>Docker</li>
    <li>Puppet</li>
    <li>Amazon Web Services</li>
    <li>Kafka</li>
    <li>Postgresql</li>
    <li>ElasticSearch</li>
    <li>Nginx &amp; Openresty</li>
    <li>API and platform software development</li>
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  <h2>Experience</h2>
  <h3>Lonely Planet (Travel Publisher) - Lead Developer</h3>
  <i>From Aug 2014 to Apr 2015 (9 months)</i>
  <p>Leading development teams and working independently. Responsible for overseeing quality and delivery of a range of software solutions with teams distributed across multiple timezones. Building upon and improving newly integrated practices, and continuing to encourage a DevOps philosophy across all technology teams.</p>
  <ul>
    <li>Ruby</li>
    <li>Rails</li>
    <li>Amazon Web Services</li>
    <li>OpenResty &amp; Nginx</li>
    <li>ElasticSearch</li>
    <li>Postgresql</li>
    <li>Chef</li>
    <li>API and platform software development</li>
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  <h3>Lonely Planet (Travel Publisher) - Software Developer</h3>
  <i>From Sept 2011 to Aug 2014 (3 years)</i>
  <p>Part of a growing team, taking requirements from the start of an idea and developing all aspects through to delivery. Integrating new practices to the company's software delivery processes, including continuous integration, continuous deployment, and infrastructure as code.</p>

  <h3>Global Personals (Dating Platform) - Web Developer</h3>
  <i>From Sept 2008 to Sept 2011 (3 years)</i>
  <p>Ruby on Rails and Ruby developer working on core applications for internal and external use. A mixture of maintaining existing systems (written in Ruby and other languages, such as ColdFusion) and creating new applications to support the growth and quality of service the business provides.</p>
  <ul>
    <li>Ruby</li>
    <li>Rails</li>
    <li>ColdFusion</li>
    <li>Full-stack development</li>
  </ul>

  <p>Read more experience on my <a href="https://github.com/marckysharky/curriculum_vitae" target="_blank">curriculum vitae.</a></p>
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