email: phil.mcclure@gmail.com

github: http://github.com/overture8

Employment

• Decide on technology and approach for backend development.
• Lead team on projects and prioritise accordingly
• Work on building out infrastructure with AWS, including VPN, EC2, Load Balancers, Cloudfront and Route53.
• Setup infrastructure monitoring, including: Sentry, AppSignal, Timber (logs),
• Define and implement approach for deploying/clustering Elixir apps across multiple servers
• Design and build recurring payment systems (including debit card payments and direct debit) which processed over £15,000 a week.
• Design and build fraud detection system.
• Design and build GraphQL API.
• Manage and mentor employees

• Decide on technology and approach to front end development.
• Lead team on projects and prioritise accordingly
• Design and build embeddable JavaScript widget
• Taking a declarative/functional approach to all of our projects

• Designed and implemented several RESTful APIs.
• Worked on several client-side Javascript apps using Ember.js and occasionally Meteor.js.
• Worked on several large Ruby on Rails applications.
• Worked on several open source Rubygem libraries.
• Configured AWS - EC2, S3.

• Lead on a Ruby based project
• Work on infrastructure related tasks
• Improve test coverage and setup deployment pipeline

• Helped automate the reporting process for hundreds of payrolls.
• Built desktop software to send online end-of-year tax returns.
• Built intranet application to automate internal employees workflow.

Education

I switched to Computer Science after the first year of study. The overall continuous assessment score for the year was 77%, which was on course for a 1:1 (First class degree).

My assignment scores for the second year were 100%, 91%, 89%, 95%, 79% leaving me with an overall continuous assessment score of 89%. This is well on course for a 1:1 (First class degree).

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