darrenmatthews
Senior Full Stack Engineer
Experience: 8 years
Yearly salary: $80,000
Hourly rate: $0
Nationality: 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Residency: 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Experience
Software Consultant
EQUAL EXPERTS (HMPO) 2022 - 2024
Accelerated Public Service: Contributed to a high-impact project modernising UK Passport Service, significantly reducing processing times from months to weeks. Technical Expertise: Utilised Java, Spring, Camunda/BPMN, Kubernetes, and React to develop key components of digital transformation. Collaborative Success: Collaborated with multiple cross-functional teams to migrate legacy systems to a streamlined, automated workflow. Prioritised Service Delivery: Supported development of priority service, ensuring expedited passport processing for urgent cases.
Software Engineer
CITRIX 2018 - 2022
Stepped into Leadership: Took on role of defacto Architect and Lead Engineer to drive development of a modular Continuous Localisation Delivery platform. Significant Savings: Content localisation times reduced from months to hours. AI-Driven Efficiency: Integrated ML-driven quality assessment workflows to significantly reduce manual effort and ensured consistent quality standards. Global Impact: Successfully localised over 27 million source words across 5+ key languages. Team Empowerment: Championed a 'You Build It, You Run It' culture, fostering ownership and accountability within the team. Technical Proficiency: Leveraged Java 11+, MongoDB, Docker, Kubernetes, React, Azure, and Okapi Frameworks to build scalable and reliable solutions.
Skills
backend
ci-cd
devops
flutter
front-end
full-stack
gcp
git
javascript
mongo
node
react
react-native
terraform
typescript
java
english