Experience · Roles & Leadership · 2026 → 1994

Thirty-two years.
A series of escalating roles.

From cloud-ready fintech back to the telecom foundations — seven roles, five industries, two continents, newest first.

2023–2026

BNY Mellon · Manchester — UK

Senior Java Full-Stack Developer

Fintech, cloud-ready. Designed the Client Onboarding Platform — migrating legacy monoliths into Java 17 / Spring Boot 3 microservices, orchestrated with Camunda 7 and Kafka — plus generative-AI design tooling that cut prototyping cycles by 50%.

Monolith → microservicesarchitecture
−50%prototyping cycles
Java 17Spring Boot 3Angular 17ReactCamunda 7KafkaDockerGitLab CI
2022–2023

Redscan Cyber Security · London — UK

Senior Associate

Security platforms, rebuilt. Led the redesign of CyberOps and SimplyCyber — designing 80+ Angular Material components, interactive jsPlumb workflow diagrams and Node.js backends, with payments integrated end to end.

80+Angular Material components
2platforms rebuilt
Angular 13Angular MaterialTypeScriptNode.jsExpressAWSAuth0
2021

Connexone · Manchester — UK

Senior Full Stack Developer

Speed at 15 million a day. Built full-stack features for an omnichannel CXM platform processing 15M+ customer interactions daily across WhatsApp, Messenger, Telegram and Twitter.

15M/daycustomer interactions
4social channels
Node.jsExpressReactRedux ToolkitTypeScriptPostgreSQLRabbitMQAWS
2019–2021

Tracsis · Derby & Leeds — UK

Lead Developer → Senior Software Engineer

Rail, traffic, and leadership. Led a team of six engineers building the TLT real-time traffic platform — adopted by 20+ enterprise customers — and shipped the UK rail Passenger Information System on .NET Core, Blazor, Angular and GCP Pub/Sub.

20+enterprise customers
+50%customer engagement
6engineers led
Java 8Spring CloudGraphQLRedisHazelcastC# / .NETGCP
2008–2019

Wise Tech IT — China

Technical Director

Director of velocity. Ran $10M+ of concurrent projects across the full SDLC, architected the DevStudio auto code-generation framework that tripled engineering productivity, and launched a React Native + Spring Boot community group-buy platform.

300%+engineering productivity
$10M+project portfolio
$13M+direct company profit
Spring BootReact NativeC#SQL ServerJenkinsDocker
1994–2008

Enterprise Software · Multiple Firms — China

Principal Architect / R&D Manager

Billing that could not fail. Started as a software engineer in telecom and rose to lead R&D departments of 15–25 engineers. Architected the Telecom BOSS billing & operations platform in C++/Pro*C and J2EE, deployed across 30+ Chinese cities.

$100M+revenue generated
30+cities deployed
100%client satisfaction
C++Pro*CJ2EEOracle 10gWebLogicSOA
Credentials

The paperwork behind the journey.

M.S. Software Engineering

South China University of Technology · 2004

Excellent Postgraduate Honor Certificate

Outstanding postgraduate academic performance

B.S. Computer Science

Kunming University of Technology · 1994

IBM Certified System Administrator

WebSphere Application Server ND V6.0

IBM Certified Database Administrator

DB2 Universal Database V8.1

IID Certified System Integration PM

Project & delivery management