Uleska ceased operations and was dissolved. Uleska developed an application security automation and orchestration platform to enable security teams to scale up their application security programs while increasing the effectiveness of their efforts.

Upon joining Uleska I became one of the more senior members of the development team, planning and working on new features and shaping the future of the service. By working in such a small team I was able to provide value both through my development work, my assisting and mentoring of others and through proposing, championing and implementing new product ideas to make our service stand out in our sector.

For example, I proposed the idea of implementing “Toolkits” as a way to differentiate ourselves from our competitors and to better meet the needs of our customers. This has proved attractive to customers and I was able to develop and implement it alongside the team.

I worked as a full-stack developer. For back-end development, the tool stack included Java (using the Spring framework and Junit/Mockito), Python and PostgreSQL, for front-end development I used ReactJs (with Jest and Enzyme for testing), HTML and CSS. I also worked on deploying and managing the infrastructure of our service on AWS using Docker and Kubernetes.

At Signifyd I worked as a developer within the Review Tools & Services (RTS) team. My primary role was to develop and maintain back-end microservices which provide stakeholders with the tools and services they need to review and understand risk factors surrounding fraud on any given order.

As part of this role, I worked with technologies such as Java (with Play! framework), AWS (DynamoDB, Kinesis), Elasticsearch, Docker, Kubernetes, gRPC, MySQL and bash scripts.

One major project I worked on during this time was a complete restructuring of the company’s Elasticsearch cluster, used for storing and searching millions of cases to be reviewed for potential issues of fraud, greatly reducing daily running costs.

Operating as one of the more senior developers in my team I developed new features for the “WorkSmart” SAAS application, an automated testing system for Workday, to meet our Product Roadmap alongside resolving critical customer bugs. My work dealt with automation using Java, Selenium and PostgreSQL, I also worked on a variety of front-end tasks using ReactJS, HTML and CSS.

My role demanded strong research and problem-solving skills as well as the determination to achieve results.

As an integral part of a scrum team, I organised meetings, hosted sprint ceremonies and actively contributed to product meetings where I identified priorities and developed schedules.

I supported the development of new staff at all levels through onboarding, using a wiki that I developed as well as giving presentations and training to new members of the team such as University Graduates.

As a developer, I acted as the primary point of contact for my team during busy maintenance windows and feature releases. I coordinated with management and customer services teams to ensure the smooth rollout of new features or address and fix changes made by Workday in an ever-changing environment that would affect our platform in time-critical scenarios. This helped ensure a high level of customer satisfaction.