Myles McDonnell

Built and led a team of engineers delivering products on the 90POE Open Ocean Studio platform.

Golang | DDD | Docker | GItHub Actions | Postgres | Kafka | K8S | GraphQL | gRPC

Hands on technical consultancy across multiple projects.

Lead Platform Engineer - Online Gaming

• Design and implement cloud-based infrastructure for container-based RPC microservice (AWS Fargate) and event stream (Kafka - AWS MSK) based marketing platform, including IaC automated infrastructure mutation (Terraform + Terraform Enterprise) and application deployment pipelines (GoCD + Terraform for AWS Fargate deployment + Kafka GitOps for queue management)

Software Engineer - Media Streaming

• Development of dynamic media encoding pipeline utilising AWS Lambda (Golang) and AWS Elastic Transcoder.

Technical Lead - Residential Property Lettings

• Bootstrapped and led a small development team for a UK-based property technology startup. Golang, AWS Fargate, NATS, ConcourseCI, OpenAPI.

Bootstrapped and led a team responsible for developing a suite of Go micro-services that provide the backbone of an ambitious start-up in the maritime shipping domain.

• Established development process, tooling, testing strategy, and CI/CD platform, which at my departure from the project was running 100's of builds daily across an EC2 6 node Concourse cluster

• Implemented a cryptographically secure token-based distributed authorisation architecture

An incredibly challenging yet rewarding assignment. See references from C-level management at the footer of this page.

Golang | Kafka | Micro-services | AWS | K8S | Terraform | Docker | Vault | ConcourseCI | gRPC | GraphQL

Led a team building various micro service based components as part of strategy to migrate away from a monolithic architecture (Oracle)

Micro-services | Golang | AWS (Lambda/Kinesis/Dynamo/RDS) | Terraform, ConcourseCI | Grafana | Elastic Search

Built and led a development team of 7 from the ground up. Tasked primarily with developing a European-wide multi-language medical professional community site and marketing platform.

AWS, Mesos | Docker | Terraform | Micro-services, | Golang | Elastic Search | Kibana, MongoDB | PostGres (AWS RDS) | Redis (AWS Elasticache) | CircleCI

• Upgrade run-time tech stack to the latest versions of .NET and IIS. Also, implement new CI tooling, development, and release processes.
• Iterative migration of several hundred ASP.NET applications from IIS6 to IIS8 clusters using HAProxy on Linux.
• Implementation of SQL session state to enable failover.
• Migration from SVN to GitLab, including staff classroom-based training.
• NuGet packaging of internal component dependencies published to the internal ProGet server.
• Introduction of TeamCity for Continuous Integration.
• Design of release process using WebDeploy packages.
• Implementation of http://Syncthing.net for low latency decentralized content synchronization across web cluster.
• Implementation of load testing infrastructure using http://locust.io on AWS.

NET, C# | WebDeploy | GitLab | TeamCity | ProGet | HAProxy | Docker | Syncthing | Locust (Load Testing) | Python

Development of various middleware components (using Erlang and Riak) to further enable the ever-growing transaction volumes at Bet365.

.NET C# | MongoDB | RabbitMQ

.NET C# | MSSQL

Various freelance software development projects using the .NET stack.

Various development projects across shared infrastructure (Authentication, PKI, LDAP) and front office systems (Credit Derivatives, Equity Lending).