Proactive, agile, analytical engineer with a strong commitment to software craftsmanship. Maximises software quality, empowering the team to swiftly deliver business value. Identifies valuable features, supporting product development which keeps ticket standards high to achieve tangible market impact. Supports coworkers through increases to technology efficiency, enabling the swift development of new features to match the pace of business decisions. Creates technological frameworks that solve problems so engineers can focus on developing business facing changes. Guides collaborative discussion to focus on tangible company goals and direct customer impact. When I’m not maximising software quality and empowering teams to deliver business value, I enjoy a variety of leisure activities. I play a number of different videogames, mostly those that allow me to master and optimize a logical system, like Path of Exile or Factorio. I like to organise D&D nights for my friends, preparing narrative challenges for them to overcome. I also make open source software contributions, which you can find at _Website not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_

Vivian Welsh

Proactive, agile, analytical engineer with a strong commitment to software craftsmanship. Maximises software quality, empowering the team to swiftly deliver business value. Identifies valuable features, supporting product development which keeps ticket standards high to achieve tangible market impact. Supports coworkers through increases to technology efficiency, enabling the swift development of new features to match the pace of business decisions. Creates technological frameworks that solve problems so engineers can focus on developing business facing changes. Guides collaborative discussion to focus on tangible company goals and direct customer impact. When I’m not maximising software quality and empowering teams to deliver business value, I enjoy a variety of leisure activities. I play a number of different videogames, mostly those that allow me to master and optimize a logical system, like Path of Exile or Factorio. I like to organise D&D nights for my friends, preparing narrative challenges for them to overcome. I also make open source software contributions, which you can find at _Website not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_

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Proactive, agile, analytical engineer with a strong commitment to software craftsmanship. Maximises software quality, empowering the team to swiftly deliver business value. Identifies valuable features, supporting product development which keeps ticket standards high to achieve tangible market impact. Supports coworkers through increases to technology efficiency, enabling the swift development of new features to match the pace of business decisions. Creates technological frameworks that solve problems so engineers can focus on developing business facing changes. Guides collaborative discussion to focus on tangible company goals and direct customer impact.

When I’m not maximising software quality and empowering teams to deliver business value, I enjoy a variety of leisure activities. I play a number of different videogames, mostly those that allow me to master and optimize a logical system, like Path of Exile or Factorio. I like to organise D&D nights for my friends, preparing narrative challenges for them to overcome. I also make open source software contributions, which you can find at Website not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup

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Work Experience

Software Engineer at American Express
September 1, 2020 - May 1, 2024
Invoice matching and enrichment – Business travel accounts: Overhauled the security of intra-service caching solution to align with new regulatory requirements, safeguarding against potential breaches and regulatory penalties. Mentored 2 engineers in spring and cloud native engineering, highlighting issues to pay attention to during code reviews and explaining systematic considerations for high throughput applications. Installed a new automated test system with JUnit and Github actions to ensure that additions to the matching and enrichment systems maintained existing business functionality. Data import and export – Spearheaded the first filetype for our data ingestion gateway, setting the standard for other engineers and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration within the team as we iterated together upon my original design. Overhauled our data ingress system to a functional paradigm, which kept data flowing to legacy systems while allowing access to distrib
Technology Graduate Engineer at American Express
September 1, 2019 - September 1, 2020
Education and Enablement – Application Security: Reduced the enterprise's exposure to potential cyber attack by creating tests for bdd-security, a tool which maintains the security of many Amex applications. Helped develop the security champions programme, a user group for engineers to discuss security and promote integration of security concerns into development. Supported a security Capture The Flag (CTF) training simulation, to teach engineers without security knowledge how their applications may be hacked. Select and Redeem — Loyalty Redemptions automated a common quality assurance task, saving many cumulative hours of development time, and reducing engineer frustration with test processes. Introduced a new architecture for my team's back-end Java services, which has the capacity to reduce the amount of work to support future features by 33%. Improved performance of a Java service by 2 seconds per request, enabling a responsive user experience along the primary customer journey

Education

BSc (Honours) – Computer science for multimedia application at University of Sussex
January 11, 2030 - May 30, 2026

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Software & Internet, Financial Services