Resume This resume is made with CVwizard . com . Basic information Name Dan Rathbone Website infinityworks . com Personal Statement I am a pragmatic full - stack engineer with a background in software engineering totalling 11 years commercial experience . I have worked with many different technologies through the years , giving me a broad skillset , and I am comfortable working at any stage of the product lifecycle . Over the last 4 years I have worked mainly on software performance and infrastructure automation for high traffic applications . I have experience of leading and managing teams in small and large organisations ( 5 - 50 , 000 employees ) and have experience of introducing best practice into teams and turning them around . I always like to bring a bit of fun to wherever I work and thrive amongst like - minded people . Work experience Apr 2012 - Mar 2014 Lead Software Performance Engineer Sky Betting & Gaming I was responsible for ensuring that all SkyBet systems were 'fast' . This involved working across the entire tech stack , from tweaking the Linux kernel to CSS selectors and everything in between . It also involved working across the entire product life - cycle , from designing systems for performance and building proof - of - concepts up - front , through to in - life performance monitoring and capacity planning . I line managed a team of performance engineers working across the entire business . With the help of my team I managed to embed a performance focussed culture where performance is seen as an essential success factor in everything the company builds . Sky Bet under went significant growth in traffic during my tenure and the team made many significant improvements despite this . Delivering performance improvements earned the team the trust and respect of people across the business . I was heavily involved in a project to rebuild the SkyBet mobile site during which we managed to achieve an order of magnitude increase in performance over our desktop site . In order to achieve this I helped the team build a performance - focussed codebase called 'tiny' . In addition to performance gains tiny has enabled the development teams to deliver products quicker and more easily . The mobile product we delivered went on to win an industry award as best mobile sports betting site . During my last 6 months at Sky I helped run an infrastructure project that aimed to automate the build and deployment of all SkyBet infrastructure using tools such as Chef and Salt Stack . I was part of a multi - disciplinary team made up of colleagues from infrastructure , ops , dev - ops and software engineering . My role was to bring some engineering best practice in the form of source control , unit testing , continuous integration etc , and embed these in the team .
This resume is made with CVwizard . com . Jul 2010 - Apr 2012 Principal Software Engineer Orange Digital I was responsible for the technical strategy , architecture and quality of systems developed by a 30 + strong team of technical staff . I was tasked with crafting innovative system designs to deliver quality and value to the organisation , whilst ensuring our deliverables met long term strategic goals . To ensure the whole team were adhering to best practices I would regularly coach and mentor people , hold technical workshops and act as a technical authority . I usually helped out in areas where knowledge in the team was lacking or where we were working on something totally new . I always led by example , never afraid to get my hands dirty ! For example i helped introduce scrum as a way to improve the predictability of our projects . I proposed , championed and delivered an innovative solution to improve the hosting capabilities of Orange Digital by migrating to AWS . This allowed the company to reduce costs , increase quality and stability and gave us a chance to modernise our software stack . Mar 2007 - Jul 2010 Analyst Programmer Orange I was responsible for developing services and enablers for the Orange web and mobile portals . This covered a range of technologies which include PHP , MySQL , Apache , Linux , XML , XSLT , Javascript , CSS and HTML . I was involved with all phases of the software lifecycle from requirements gathering through to live support and also spend time providing guidance to other team members . Oct 2003 - Mar 2007 Programmer Terrapin Internet My work was primarily focussed on developing web applications for the facilities management industry . This involved working with large blue - chip companies ( 3M , Esso , Toyota ) in the UK , USA and Canada . The web apps were built using a propriety server side language called ‘ TerrapinScript ’ that was based upon javascript , used a MySQL database and also extensive client side functionality in JS and CSS . In addition to web applications I also developed Windows applications aimed at the home user and small business markets . These used a variety of technologies including C + + , C , MFC , Win32 , COM , TCP/IP and provided implementations of many internet communication protocols such as HTTP , POP3 , SMTP and FTP . Education Oct 1999 - Jun 2003 Electronic Engineering with Music Technology Systems University of York The course combined a degree in electronic engineering with extra modules on contemporary music technology systems . I achieved an MEng with a grade of 2 : 1. The course had a large software element to it and this is where I fell in love with software engineering . Notably I completed some large projects using Java and C + + working in a team and independently . 1997 - 1999 A Levels Salt Grammar School Maths : A Further Maths : A Physics : A Music : C
This resume is made with CVwizard . com . 1994 - 1997 GCSE Salt Grammar School 4 x A* , 1 x A , 3 x B , 1 xC Community I have given talks at conferences such as Velocity EU and PHPNW to several hundred delegates . I attend local user groups such as Leeds PHP and Leeds DevOps and have given talks at some of them . I have submitted work to several open source projects such as Chef , and also maintain the odd small project myself on Github . I tweet and blog ( although not as often as I would like ! ) about tech matters that I think people would find valuable I am about to have an article about PHP performance published in Net Magazine Key Skills • Software Engineering • High - traffic web - based systems development • Performance engineering • DevOps • Team leadership • Public speaking • Mobile web development Technologies • Backend • PHP • Ruby • Python • Bash • Go • OS • RHEL/CentOS • Debian/Ubuntu • Arch linux • Database • MySQL • MongoDB • Riak • Redis • Memcache • Infrastructure • AWS • VMWare • Ansible • Chef • SaltStack • Puppet • Cobbler • Frontend coding • Javascript
This resume is made with CVwizard . com . • CSS • Tools • Webpagetest • JMeter • Git • Jenkins • KCachegrind • Splunk • Grafana/Graphite Links Twitter : @ thetrilemma Blog : http : //trilemma . technology GitHub : https : //github . com/rathers Interests Besides all things techie I enjoy racquet sports , running , cars , DIY and I have an unhealthy obsession with heavy guitar music !