I’m a Senior Software Engineer with 25+ years of commercial experience. I’ve built a strong 💪 track record delivering scalable, high-performance solutions across 🏢 on-prem, hybrid, and cloud environments, with a focus on mid-tier and backend development.
Good communication and collaboration are important to me ❤️ I enjoy mentoring, helping teams work smoothly together and consistently supporting the delivery of successful projects.
I have known Jonny personally for over 5 years. He is a very experienced Software Engineer and extremely diligent in his work and work practices. I would highly recommend Jonny his knowledge in the industry is fantastic with a can do attitude - a real smart individual. Additionally he is very security minded and has worked on payment platforms that have been at the core of our organisation.
Jonny is an excellent and versatile developer, willing to go the extra mile to achieve the right result. He's passionate about technology in many forms and brings that drive and enthusiasm to everything he does. He's well rounded and diligent and can be relied upon to ask the tough questions where required. I'd be happy to have Jonny on my team whatever the challenge.
Jonny has been instrumental in ensuring that our payment technology systems incorporate the required regulatory controls. Rather than seeing compliance as a hindrance, he embraces the requirements and comes up with practical, workable solutions. He is passionate about what he does and isn't afraid to ask searching questions to ensure he fully understands the challenge in order to provide the right solution.
Jonny is a passionate .NET Developer, who takes pride in delivery, and who keeps his skills up-to-date by working on a wide variety of projects and attending industry events. Jonny takes ownership, and cares deeply about his work.
Jonny, is a superbly knowledgable programmer. Heavily relied upon for advice and help. He was always willing and able, with a keen sense of humour and a ready smile. He is a joy to work with, it been my pleasure to know him.
I have worked with Jonny on multiple different projects and have always been impressed by his strong work ethic and technical knowledge. He is passionate about the work he does, often coming up with excellent solutions to problems and he is always willing to help other developers when asked upon. A really top person to be around and it's been fantastic to know him not just as a colleague but a friend.
Jonny's tenacity and drive to ensure that best practice is achieved going forward with focus on the user journey while ensuring compliance is achieved all touch points along the user journey. He provides not only a direction but also a light touch when necessary. He is a legend.
I’m a Senior Software Engineer 🤓 with over 25 years of .NET experience, and I love keeping up with the latest tech.
To stay hands-on, I run a home lab outside of work where I experiment with Docker, VMs, and a load of Linux servers. It’s a great way to explore new tools and to keep up with modern development, infrastructure, and deployment practices.
With all the recent privacy breaches 🚫 and data harvesting by big tech and governments, I’ve set up our home network to be more secure 🔐 NetAlertX monitors the network and connected devices. I host my own DNS server, Unbound; with DNS over HTTPS (DoH), I run PiHole which blocks 🙅 ads, malware, outbound telemetry and tracking.
I have also built and run a WireGuard VPN which ensures we can enjoy an encrypted tunnel back home to use our apps, whilst enjoying secure, ad-free browsing 🌎️ when we’re out on friends’ or public Wi-Fi. OK, the local pub's Wi-Fi.
Much to my wife's disapproval 🙄 this all runs in two server cabinets at home.
I have file servers, docker hosts, VPN's, ad-blockers, DNS servers, a home automation server, an image server and backup clients running in my Home Lab as well as an email platform (Mail Grid) and an SMS platform (SMS Grid) running in a DC in London. I use Uptime Kuma to monitor these services and notify ⚡️ me via Discord and SMS when a service goes down, then again when it comes back up.
Provides the family with secure internet and local app access on public wifi, routing traffic via my Ad/Malware Blocker.
Ad, malware, telemetry blocking and DoH DNS resolution, for increased home internet privacy and malware protection.
My internal Docker host is a dev/home environment for projects. Any external apps run on my bare metal Docker Host in a DC, in London.
I brought a 2012 Mac Mini back to life with Linux, this now sits on my network as a Samba share for all our phones and laptops.
Immich is an open source Google Photos alternative providing all the features (and more!) from Google Photos, on your private cloud!
Scancraft is a WinForms App that connects and manages the Uniden UBC125XLT series radio scanners to listen to and record local radio communications.
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I've been working my magic as a Senior Software Engineer for over 4,448 days. I specialise in designing and developing custom software 💾 solutions on the .NET stack - including MVC, Blazor, and MAUI for clients across a variety of sectors and organisation sizes.
My responsibilities involve translating complex business requirements into robust, scalable 📈 applications that meet each customer’s unique needs. At present, I am concentrating on a single product that has the potential to significantly impact the UK housing market; building out the entire platform 💪 including the database, a RESTful API stack, the customer facing web site and a dedicated admin site with dashboards.
I am a one-man-team at present or if you're a manager 👨💼 you may say "At this time, I am the sole resource assigned to this initiative".
For obvious reasons I cannot discuss the project 🙊 until it is offically launched later this year!
My role here was working on a large dev team. developing voice and messaging solutions for contact centres ☎️ in the public and private sectors using cloud telephony, AI, Chat Bots, NLP; building omni-channel solutions connecting clients and businesses globally. Solutions used by many companies and government agencies that we use every day.
Developing scalable, secure, and high-performance Azure cloud solution 💳️ Prepaid Card Platform, I built a shiny new API stack to deliver their FSCA regulated Mastercard product. This was a beast! I also contributed to a successful team in building an Employee Benefits Platform in .NET Core and MVC, running On-Prem and in AWS.
Working with the the companies Senior Software Engineer to create a customised CMS using MVC. This standalone platform was a large, well-planned project, enabling royalty-free 😁 publishing and full customisation of any website with any content without the need for third party web dev tools.
Joining an existing team, I helped with the development and the maintenance of the company’s flagship NATS (National Air Traffic Services) ✈️ endorsed aircraft GPS navigation products enabling pilots to adhere to NOTAMs, aviation regulations and safely navigate restricted UK air space.
As a Delphi and .NET Engineer, I wrote traffic planning solutions 🚛 for major players in the road haulage industry. Managing load and route planning, facilitating EDI and ETL interfaces for load distribution across the UK and EU.
I met someone very special ❤️ whilst working here.
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