Art O Cathain

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ABOUT ART O CATHAIN

A hands-on technical architect specializing in modern cloud delivery. AWS certified. Experience across a range of industries in both product development and consultancy.Specialist in Java/JVM and Node/JS tech stacks, but flexible and agnostic. Experienced and battle-tested in serverless, container, and virtual-machine based deployments. A strong advocate of deployment automation using infrastructure-as-code tooling such as Terraform, Cloudformation, Ansible, etc.Using a detailed understanding of modern cloud offerings in Iaas, PaaS, and SaaS, adopts appropriate architecture that optimises for cost, security, availability, developer experience, performance, and other non-functional requirements. Prefers to grow the architecture along with the application, as requirements are discovered and refined. However, also understands the importance of setting early principles and guardrails to enhance confidence and prevent costly surprises. Takes a big-picture approach to architecture when necessary, stepping back to consider business processes, governance, compliance, and risk.Comfortable when embedded in a development team: performing and coaching while designing, developing, reviewing, and testing code.Well-versed in agile approaches (Scrum, XP) and able to adapt these to fit in with client culture, while pushing for continuous process improvement.A confident and trustworthy communicator, who negotiates difficult conversations with both tact and integrity. Has repeatedly won the confidence of senior client stakeholders.Experienced in bid assistance and business development.