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Want my CV? Head over to my website: www.AbdullahAli.com or www.RailsRockstar.com In January 2015, after working and studying (both full time, at the same time) I graduated and ranked number 1 in my university, obtaining a first class degree with the highest overall average of 90.04%. I want to apply the same amount of diligence to my next role! What am I looking for in my next challenge? I enjoy working on Backend tasks, writing efficient code and I especially love learning and building different ways of writing secure APIs, working in-depth with AWS and I would love to gain more DevOps knowledge – anywhere where I can further my skillset!Ruby Developer @ Turning your Instagram photos into fridge magnets Writing clean, maintainable and efficient code using TDD Working in an Agile team, running the whole the backend system along with one other developer, participating in code reviews and working in all areas of the system to help figure out what is important Deploying to real servers (not Heroku, although I love Heroku!) following continuous deployments Using background jobs where needed (Sidekiq) on an AWS stack From July 2015 to Present (6 months) London, United KingdomRuby on Rails Developer @ UK’s biggest business insurance broker. Overhauling the company's main financial system tracking and payment consolidation. Agile development, weekly card grooming sessions, TDD: RSpec, Cucumber, Gherkin and Pair Programming. From February 2015 to July 2015 (6 months) Rails Contractor @ Working for my beloved university with the professors who used to teach me. Turned dissertation project into a research tool to be used by the center of Software Reliability and university professors for their on going research. Developed automated systems to gather and analyse software vulnerability data. Worked with various supervisors and professors on a frequent basis to ensure project requirements are met. From January 2014 to February 2015 (1 year 2 months) Rails Developer @ At the time, the main provider for SMS campaigns for the ITV channel (Britain's got Talent, Dickenson's and RedNose Day) Over 27 months commercial hands on experience developing Ruby On Rails experience. Hands on experienced in developing and maintaining versioned API’s, Mobile Payment, concurrent processing and Mobile/SMS Donation Systems. Agile Development, Test Driven Development, RSpec and frequent deployment to remote servers. An instrumental developer in JustTextGiving by Vodafone, a back-end and front-end development of concurrent queuing using Rails Resque and Upstart to monitor the queues with MySql and Redis databases. A key developer in daily development of new features and maintenance of some the company's most widely used payment solutions. From April 2012 to June 2014 (2 years 3 months) London, United KingdomConsultant Software Engineer @ The UK's leading activewear and sportswear clothing company exclusively for ladies. Primary responsibilities included formulating system concepts as well as designing code logic and implanting the checkout system. Acted as the project owner, formalising system requirements and communicated them between business analysts and an out sourced technology company. From January 2012 to April 2012 (4 months) London, United KingdomApplication Developer @ Hackney Council's main technology and IT department. Developed various systems using C# and .NET technologies - customising main councils system as well as console scripts for background jobs. Assist in maintaining test plans and reporting them to team leader. From February 2011 to January 2012 (1 year) London, United KingdomGame Developer @ A technology company that integrates charity campaigns in game using micro-payments. Developed and formalised the new system requirements that need to be captured in UML semantics. Developed the initial system prototypes using Unity3D in JavaScript and C#. From April 2010 to February 2011 (11 months) Bachelor of Science BSc (Hons), Computer Science with Games Technology, Class I (First - 90.04% overall average) @ City University London From 2010 to 2014 Master's Degree, Civil Engineering, Transfer to Computer Science @ UCL From 2009 to 2010 A Level, Mathematics, Graphics, IT, Art, A, A, A, B @ John Ruskin College From 2007 to 2009 A Level, Art, B @ Harris City Technology College From 2006 to 2007 GCSE @ Addington High School From 2003 to 2006 Abdullah Ali is skilled in: Programming, HTML, MySQL, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, Agile Methodologies, Java, Ruby, Git, OOP, C++, Unix, Copy & Paste, Stackoverflow