He cooks, he cleans, he writes lots of tests in lots of languages and sometimes makes them pass. He loves to learn stuff but not as much as he loves to be paid for doing it. Sounds too good to be true? He also collects laserdiscs.

Senior Software Developer @ Dual-role PHP & Java dev. Zend MVC PHP front-end, Spring web services to MySQL back-end. RESTful API in-between and a healthy dose of ActiveMQ smeared all over. Lead services developer on the latest Ecommerce integration team, and (way too) active in the recruitment process. A leader of men and all-round good-egg. From June 2012 to Present (3 years 7 months) Bristol, United KingdomJava Developer @ Design, implementation and maintenence of fund reporting software and high-availabilty & high-throughput transaction processing systems for major payment service provider. Key skills - PHP, Java, MySQL. Investigating, testing and replacing complex legacy systems. Key skills - Mockito, Eclipse. Design and implementation of integrations with acquiring banks. Key skills - ISO8583, Apacs30. From September 2010 to June 2012 (1 year 10 months) Bath, United KingdomGraduate Software Developer @ Development and maintenance of specialist signal-generation software. Key skills - C++, XML & Visual Basic. Design and implementation of new company wesite. Key skills - HTML, Javascript, CSS. Specification and implementation of TCL test suite for Airbus A370 fuel integration bench. Key skills - Tcl/Tk, Microsoft Office. From February 2009 to June 2010 (1 year 5 months) Bournemouth, United Kingdom

2:2, Computer Science @ Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd From 2002 to 2007 Poole Grammar School From 1996 to 2002 Gareth Jones is skilled in: Beer, Spring, MySQL, Java, Eclipse, REST, PHP, JavaScript, Git, Subversion, JIRA, Test-Driven Development, CSS, Linux, Scrum