Stuart Klette

London, United Kingdom

Member since July 27, 2016

Having come from an engineering and mathematics background, Stuart gained his stripes on the commodities trading floor at BP then WCAPRA. Currently, he works as the CTO of a startup with a varied portfolio including a number of joint ventures and client projects. He's worked on a wide range of development from large database development to the web to standards-based integrations and machine learning-based methods in the image recognition arena.

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Portfolio

Evolve IT
C#, .NET Core, ASP, EF, React, TypeScript, F#, C++, OpenCV, Node.js, MongoDB...
WCAPRA
C#, ASP, SPML, SQL, WPF, LDAP, Active Directory
BP
C#, SQL, WPF, Silverlight, Excel, VB, WCF, Rx, DevExpress, FIX, TFS

Experience

C#, 9 years
SQL, 8 years
MongoDB, 3 years
Docker, 3 years
Nginx, 3 years
ASP.NET Core, 3 years
TypeScript, 1 year
React.js, 1 year

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Git, Bash, Windows, VSCode, Visual Studio Review

The most amazing...

...thing I've built was a global energy map—displaying tens of thousands of interactive energy assets on a map, showing e.g. ships, offshore meetings.

Employment

CTO
Evolve IT
2015 - PRESENT
- Developed the Fit Vault app: a health rewards mobile and web application.
- Developed an image recognition system for the Whizzky mobile app.
- Supervised the transition of the Wine Wizard site to a new hosting and development stack.
- Centralized an OAuth2 and OpenID multi-tenant service for serving a number of client applications.
- Supported Fuel Forecourt in the monitoring and provision system for tracking tank levels and more.
Technologies: C#, .NET Core, ASP, EF, React, TypeScript, F#, C++, OpenCV, Node.js, MongoDB, Docker, Ansible, Nginx,
Developer
WCAPRA
2014 - 2015
- Developed an SPML provisioning integration layer, to support a large (~200,000 users) migration to cloud-based email with split active directory responsibilities (cloud vs local).
- Built a working prototype to provide pre-emptive notifications and remedy option during work-station lockouts across a large distributed active directory domain.
- Supported and tuned (the performance) of an end-to-end ASP Web Forms application for managing the expected demand and provisioning of IT equipment.
Technologies: C#, ASP, SPML, SQL, WPF, LDAP, Active Directory
Front Office Developer
BP
2010 - 2014
- Developed a trade blotter for automated capture of oil trades and subsequent integrations with existing volatility and pricing and exchange and FIX endpoints.
- Developed an automated and integrated reporting tool to meet the Dodd-Frank requirement for EMIR, primarily reporting to the ICE Exchange.
- Developed a trading simulator as a tool for teaching and assessing trading ability.
- Initiated and implemented an ASP.NET front-end continuous-integration portal which connected TFS and Jenkins for the automated deployment of click-once applications.
- Developed the Silverlight client for a global energy map, displaying tens of thousands of interactive energy assets on a map, showing ships, offshore meetings, trading routes, and more.
- Supported a biofuels end-to-end application that was meant to assist operators and enable tighter trading by recording certification status and providing trading information based on biofuel certification systems, predominantly German.
- Developed and supported large Excel pricing sheets, used as primary trading tools.
- Supported all manners of trading related software and Excel trading sheets on the floor.
Technologies: C#, SQL, WPF, Silverlight, Excel, VB, WCF, Rx, DevExpress, FIX, TFS

Experience

Fit Vault (Development)
http://www.fitvault.co.za
A health rewards mobile and web app which connects users to gyms and rewards them for healthy activities.
Whizzky Image Recognition (Development)
http://www.whizzky.net
An image recognition solution for our Whizzky mobile app.
F# Akka.NET Distributed Email Service (Development)
A distributed emailing service; albeit this is still a POC project, it is actively used in production and is very stable (so far no downtime).

Skills

Languages
C#, T-SQL, SQL, TypeScript, JavaScript, F#, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), VB.NET
Frameworks
ASP.NET Core, Entity Core, WPF, Silverlight, Rx, OAuth2, Windows Communication Framework (WCF), Knockout.js, Actionhero.js, Express.js, Caliburn.Micro, ASP
Platforms
Docker, Xamarin
Libraries/APIs
React.js, Node.js, ReactiveX, OpenCV
Tools
Git, Autofac, Excel 2016, Shell, Ansible, Nginx, Prism
Storage
MySQL, MongoDB
Paradigms
Financial Information Exchange (FIX) Protocol
Other
Identity Server, EF6 Code First, DevExpress, Akka.NET

Education

Bachelor's degree with honors in Electrical Engineering
University of the Witwatersrand - Johannesburg, South Africa
2001 - 2006

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