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Jenis Thomas, APIs Developer in London, United Kingdom
Jenis Thomas

APIs Developer in London, United Kingdom

Member since March 7, 2019
Jenis is a MuleSoft engineer who is passionate about advocating and delivering reusable APIs and integration with a high level of automation in testing and DevOps tooling. He has over a decade of experience using MuleSoft and providing technical leadership to high profile organizations in the UK and over 16 years of experience in building application integrations using various toolsets.
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Experience

Location

London, United Kingdom

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Amazon Web Services (AWS), ELK (Elastic Stack), Linux, Docker, Splunk, Azure, AWS, MuleSoft

The most amazing...

...thing I set up was a MuleSoft platform in Hybrid mode along with DevOps tooling, Docker, and ELK. Delivered APIs for two programs valued at £45 million.

Employment

  • Lead MuleSoft Architect

    2018 - PRESENT
    British Petrolium, United Kingdom
    • Architected, designed, and developed large MuleSoft integration programs for various parts of an oil and gas business. Some of them involved very high thru-puts and low response time. Provided design and code review for MuleSoft APIs.
    • Worked with various program stakeholders (program managers, scrum masters, solution architects, security architects, and MuleSoft development teams) to ensure a seamless MuleSoft delivery as part of the program.
    • Defined API architecture patterns. Defined MuleSoft development standards and reusable artifacts. Designed a CI/CD pipeline. Provided design and code review for various MuleSoft programs. Set up custom policies.
    • Managed MuleSoft customer success engagement as part of MuleSoft C4E and the API design review board. Led vendor engagements on interviewing MuleSoft developers and reviewing contracts.
    • Managed performance tuning of MuleSoft APIs, and advocated to decrease licensing cost. Championed automated API regression testing and DevOps to improve speed to market.
    Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), ActiveMQ, Splunk, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, AWS, Azure, Anypoint Studio, MuleSoft

  • MuleSoft Architect | Enterprise Integration Architect

    2016 - 2018
    House of Fraser, United Kingdom
    • Architected, designed, and developed large MuleSoft multimillion integration programs that involved relating the ePoS and warehouse management systems. Set up a MuleSoft DevOPs team to deliver the APIs and integrations.
    • Set up and chaired the C4E team. Designed and implemented the MuleSoft platform in hybrid mode (data center and in Azure). Designed and implemented a CI/CD platform using Jenkins and Docker and a log aggregation platform using ELK.
    • Provided technical leadership to critical programs by recruiting and running a MuleSoft team to deliver these time-critical programs. Reviewed design and code, and provided inputs to performance tuning. Developed reusable artifacts.
    • Provided support and advice to CTO and directors for the successful integration of the MuleSoft platform and delivery of time-critical programs. Owned the technical relationship with MuleSoft, managing licence, leveraging architects.
    • Provided integration roadmap and vision. Integrated the architecture in the architecture review board.
    Technologies: ActiveMQ, ELK (Elastic Stack), Docker, Jenkins, Azure, Anypoint Studio, MuleSoft

  • MuleSoft Architect

    2016 - 2016
    Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, United Kingdom
    • Developed critical business to business APIs. Provided performance tuning of existing APIs that resulted in savings of 4vCore.
    • Provided technical leadership of an existing team of developers to improve the capabilities.
    • Provided API architecture vision and roadmap for the CTO. Improved engagement with the MuleSoft customer success team.
    Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Push Notification Service (AWS SNS), Amazon SQS, Splunk, Jenkins, AWS, Anypoint Studio, MuleSoft

  • Lead MuleSoft Developer

    2011 - 2016
    BGL Group, United Kingdom
    • Started and led a MuleSoft development team to expose API services out of critical midrange systems. Recruited Java developers and trained them on MuleSoft.
    • Migrated MuleSoft 2.x application to the MuleSoft 3.x platform.
    • Advocated API driven service architecture and Scrum-based agile delivery for APIs.
    Technologies: Bamboo, iSeries, ActiveMQ, Java, MuleSoft

  • Integration Consultant

    2006 - 2011
    Swiss Re, Switzerland / UK / USA
    • Designed and developed various APIs, ESB applications, reusable integration components for insurance, and reinsurance applications.
    • Contributed as part of the application integration team, which resulted from the sale of GE Insurance Solutions to SwissRe.
    • Acted as the technical lead for a pool of 15-25 integration delivery team members.
    Technologies: TIBCO, webMethods, IBM WCM, MuleSoft, Java

  • Integration Lead

    2003 - 2006
    GE Insurance Solution, United States / Banaglore
    • Designed and developed various APIs, ESB applications, reusable integration components for insurance, and reinsurance applications.
    • Acted as the technical lead, delivering integration components for GE Insurance Solution projects.
    • Worked with the GE six sigma team to identify and deliver any savings using application integration.
    Technologies: TIBCO, EMC Documentum, Java

Experience

  • Customer Management (Development)
    https://bitbucket.org/thomas_jenis/custmanagement/

    The project demonstrates the correct usage and standards to be used for a production-grade application. This involves standard dependency management, central logging framework, environment based property management, etc.

Skills

  • Languages

    Java

  • Tools

    Anypoint Studio, Git, ActiveMQ, Amazon SQS, AWS Push Notification Service (AWS SNS), Bamboo, IBM WCM, Jenkins, Splunk, ELK (Elastic Stack)

  • Platforms

    MuleSoft, Linux, webMethods, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Docker

  • Other

    APIs, iSeries, TIBCO, EMC Documentum, AWS

  • Paradigms

    Agile Software Development, Automated Testing, Azure DevOps

Education

  • Course in Data Science: Data to Insights
    2017 - 2017
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge, MA, USA
  • Course in Cybersecurity: Technology, Application and Policy
    2017 - 2017
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge, MA, USA
  • Course in Internet of Things: Roadmap to a Connected World
    2017 - 2017
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge, MA, USA
  • Course in Tackling the Challenges of Big Data
    2014 - 2014
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge, MA, USA
  • Master's degree in Computer Applications
    2000 - 2003
    Bangalore University - Banagalore, India

Certifications

  • Sun Certified Java Professional
    MAY 2003 - PRESENT
    Sun Microsystems

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