Callum's work
About Callum
Profile/Experience:
- Highly capable head/principal architect with 10 years' experience in role
- Extensive e-commerce and fintech experience, including payment solutions
- Worked at start-ups and mature organisations
- Communicates at all levels from senior management to developers
- Leading multiple agile/scrum teams and solution architects
- Keen commercial awareness, prioritises business value
- Employs technology to support business objectives
- Rock solid engineering skills and excellent all round technical ability
- Deep, practical experience working at scale with high volume business transactions
- Full SDLC experience including operational support of a complete platform
- Skilled in designing, building and supporting internet facing, mission critical systems
Skills:
- Patterns: API-first platforms, micro-services, SOA, event driven architecture, messaging, REST, scalability, high volume, CQRS, event sourcing, eventual consistency & Brewer's CAP Theorem
- Tech: .NET, Windows Azure, SQL Server, MongoDB
Personality
- Self-starter, highly driven, strong work ethic, makes an impact, gets stuff done
- Strategic thinker
- Relentless focus on delivery
- Creative, passionate, enthusiastic
Please view the "Experience report from ASOS's Principal Architect for e-Commerce" recording (see below) for an insight into skills, thinking on architecture and what has been achieved at ASOS.
- Highly capable head/principal architect with 10 years' experience in role
- Extensive e-commerce and fintech experience, including payment solutions
- Worked at start-ups and mature organisations
- Communicates at all levels from senior management to developers
- Leading multiple agile/scrum teams and solution architects
- Keen commercial awareness, prioritises business value
- Employs technology to support business objectives
- Rock solid engineering skills and excellent all round technical ability
- Deep, practical experience working at scale with high volume business transactions
- Full SDLC experience including operational support of a complete platform
- Skilled in designing, building and supporting internet facing, mission critical systems
Skills:
- Patterns: API-first platforms, micro-services, SOA, event driven architecture, messaging, REST, scalability, high volume, CQRS, event sourcing, eventual consistency & Brewer's CAP Theorem
- Tech: .NET, Windows Azure, SQL Server, MongoDB
Personality
- Self-starter, highly driven, strong work ethic, makes an impact, gets stuff done
- Strategic thinker
- Relentless focus on delivery
- Creative, passionate, enthusiastic
Please view the "Experience report from ASOS's Principal Architect for e-Commerce" recording (see below) for an insight into skills, thinking on architecture and what has been achieved at ASOS.