Alec Bickerton

Unisys is a US based technology company. I work in the Public team, producing solutions to support the activities of the Police and Security services. I'm responsible for multiple mature applications that must be extended and maintained. Since joining Unisys, I have helped drive the modernisation of legacy products and pushed for the adoption of 'state of the art' development process including TDD and CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Solution architecture
• Pre-Sales support
• Design & implementation of line of business applications
• Application modernisation

Noteworthy

• Introduced cloud concepts (Kubernetes, containers, Helm, 12 Factor App etc...) to the development team
• Introduced an industry standard development process utilising unit-testing, static analysis tools and CI/CD pipelines.
• Java
• Spring-Boot
• Software Architecture
• Microservices
• Kafka
• DevSecOps
• REST
• PostgreSQL
• Test Driven Development
• Waterfall (SDLC)
• Law Enforcement

The Natwest Group is the largest Banking group in the UK. My role was within Natwest services, which was responsible for the providing technical solutions to support the Digital Lending group.

My primary responsibility was to provide the APIs used in offering mortgage products. I left this role as I felt it did not align with my career goals.

Responsibilities

• Solution architecture
• Design & implementation of line of business applications

Formally UPC, was a cable operator and third largest telecommunications operator in Switzerland. I worked as a Senior Software Engineer within the OSS Service Delivery team. I acted as application owner for a number of systems built using Java, Spring-Boot and other supporting technologies e.g. Elasticsearch and Vaadin etc...

Noteworthy

• Implemented an incident dashboard using streaming architecture on the Confluent stack
• Java
• Spring-Boot
• Apache Kafka
• Elasticsearch
• gRPC
• Software Architecture
• Microservices
• Agile
• Bash
• Messaging
• REST
• Vaadin
• PKI
• Test Driven Development

Ringier is one of the largest publishing houses in Switzerland. They’re brands include some of the largest publications in Switzerland e.g. Blick, Blick am Abend and Cash.

In this role, I supported the CMS team as a Microservice developer.

EPAM is a software consultancy. I was placed within a global financial institution in Opfikon. Here I worked on multiple projects for both the Wealth management and investment banking businesses. These were in the areas of e-banking and their global order management platforms.

Sunrise is the second largest telecommunications operator in Switzerland. The EAI portals team provided back-office applications to manage client provisioning. Primarily, I was responsible for keeping these applications running. I was involved with solutions related to contract administration, provisioning of Fiber connections to residential customers, abuse desk and lawful interception.