Mathew Nicholls

• Leading a development team implementing the payments handling system of the new banking backend
• Implementing high level designs ( system communication, database structure etc )
• Mentoring junior developers ( through the business)
• Technology: AWS Lambda ( Full serverless arch), Serverless Stack (SST), DynamoDB, Go
• Note: Looking to leave due to company facing financial difficulties and severe risk of redundancies

• Worked with an international team migrating legacy systems / services to Go based services deployed to Kubernetes
• Performance of these services was critical due to the level of traffic ( use of caching, auto scaling, NoSql )
• Mentored both junior and mid level developers who were migrating from other languages to Go
• Reason for leaving: Company was liquidated / declared bankrupt

Started development of a Go based clinical management system that had previously been written in Clojure.

Reason for leaving: position became untenable due to mass resignations of various staff; company has recently ceased trading .

• Designed and Developed various microservices to ingest real-time sports data from various sources and broadcast to clients
• Services were written in a mixture of Java and Go
• Led the push to migrate the business area from legacy EC2 instances to Kubernetes based deployments, involved mentoring / training as well as stakeholder management
• Worked closely with the Platform Team to set up deployment pipelines using Github Actions, write Kubernetes deployment files , manage alerting ( Prometheus ) and implement infrastructure as code ( Terraform)
• Mentored junior developers
• For a brief took over Technical lead responsibilities due to staff absence

• Worked in a cloud based Java microservices environment for a nationally recognized brand.
• Worked with with Spring boot based microservices running in AWS with technical lead responsibilities as well as mentoring for clients permanent staff.
• Java 11 , AWS, terraform, docker, spring boot, spring cloud.

• Lead Greenfield redevelopment of patient mass messaging system
• Designed and implemented Java based microservices, using domain driven design
• Researched existing legacy PHP based system to understand system behavior's
• Implemented CI/CD processes ( Github Actions )
• Implemented Event Driven Architecture for some parts of the system
• Mentored other engineers
• Worked closely with CTO and CEO and gained exposure to explaining technical concepts to less technical individuals
• Tech Stack: Java, Microservices, AWS, Docker, PHP, RabbitMQ, React

Note: Company is Liquidated