Gurpreet Singh

• Commenced work at Berenberg in August 2018 as a contractor tasked with developing their new Equity Research portal (https://research.berenberg.com), leveraging a tech stack of PHP 7, Python 3, ReactJs, Oracle, Kubernetes, Azure App Proxy, KeyCloak, and Axway.
• Lead the addition of new features by integrating 3 additional microservices built in Flask & FastApi
• Started workign on project involving AI, which pushes published research, Bloomberg news, and internal Symphony group chat data into Google Vertex to produce morning emails for the sales team.
• Conducted regular code reviews of peer developers. Managed DevOps side of stack for new micrcoservices by using different namespace in kubenetes cluster and integrating Axway & KeyCloak for APIs
• Recently lead the migration of Bamboo builds from Docker to Podman.
• Worked with external agency to setup & conduct penetration testing of the client facing portal.

• I joined Essence as a Senior PHP Developer to work for TescoMobile to work on the BAU work stream. There were around 8 different projects where I have worked including writing 2 new microservices using Zend 2 & Doctrine.
• Worked on Silex (Symfony) to create a small info website to manage the transfer of old AngularJs TescoMobile to brand new Angular 5 one.
• Due to my keen interest and faith shown by project manager, I was given couple of weeks to learn TypeScript to fill up the role of FE developer. Integrated Wordpress API's build using Advcanced Custom Fields plugin to Angular FE.
• The production environment for TescoMobile is deployed in a load-balanced environment on AWS. There are separate auto-scaling groups for Varnish, Node server, WordPress & Zend applications.
  Key Skills: Zend 1, Zend 2, Apigility, WordPress, AngularJS, Angular 4, Angular 5, ngrx, Git, Node, PM2, nGinx,
  Apache, PHP 5.6, REST, SOAP, Varnish Cache, AWS (EC2, RDS, ELB, VPC, S3, S3FS, CodeDeploy, Auto Scaling)

• Healthcare Learning is an EdTech company dedicated to delivering eLearning for healthcare professionals. They provided online courses for Dentists across the UK as well as CPD management websites.
• The primary technologies at work are PHP and MySQL, along with various frameworks including Symfony2, Zend, and custom in-house frameworks.
• A significant part of the department's workload involves maintaining and upgrading numerous legacy systems.
• Many of the new websites utilize the Moodle CMS as a foundation for CPD course delivery.
• I also managed the migration of all production environments from RackSpace to AWS, coordinating around 20 distinct EC2 instances of various sizes and configurations.

Working at Tekriti, an IT consultancy based in India, I contributed to delivering comprehensive technological solutions. A highlight of my work was the revamp of a leading news channel's website (https://ndtv.com) in partnership with NBC Universal, utilizing MovableType CMS. Given the fast-paced nature of news, the project prioritized speed, achieving 99% cache efficiency for the website and media assets through Akamai CDN.

Technology stack involved PHP, Perl, MySql, Akamia CDN, nGinx.