James Bradshaw

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ABOUT JAMES BRADSHAW

I am an experienced Software Engineer / Developer, expert at delivering complex software solutions across the full software development lifecycle, for enterprise, small business, government and digital agencies. I have operated as an Independent Contractor (via Grey Metis Ltd) since 2009, having completed contracts for leading organisations RAPP Group, Contron, Help Me Park, Impendium Systems, Wasabi Design and the UK Government Valuation Office Agency.I have strong technical skills with the ability to bridge the gap between business and technical teams to dynamically translate commercial requirements into best-in-class software solutions. I also have an extensive experience of designing, building and deploying web-based applications with ASP.NET, MVC and Web AP; and architecting/developing high performance distributed C#.NET systems with SQL Server delivering linear scalability to support business growth. My software development expertise allows me to analyse existing code and trouble shoot complex software applications to rapidly deliver bugfix solutions quickly and efficiently to maintain business-critical applications and systems.My career successes include having developed and delivered a new case worker application in Azure to manage business rates and a business critical solution in ASP.Net, MVC to ensure availability of Housing Benefit for the Valuation Office Agency. I have also developed back-end services for a new website at Mercedes Benz to enable their customers to purchase vehicles across all UK dealerships.Specialities:Software Engineering/Full Software Development Lifecycle/C#.NET Core /.Net Framework/ASP.NET, MVC, Web API/Requirements Capture/Stakeholder Management/Developing Web-Based Applications/System & Software Architecture/Team Leadership/Microservice Architecture/Continuous Integration & Deployment/Problem Solving/Reporting Dashboards/Agile, Scrum, Kanban & Waterfall/Azure & AWS Cloud Services/TDD, BDD, SOLID & SOA