Thomas Lever

Developer @Sage

Currently, I am a developer on the Sage Taxation online project (Sage Corporation Tax Online / Sage Personal Tax online). day to day I implement compliance and calculations using the following technologies: • Ruby • Ruby On Rails • Javascript • MySQL • Compliance DSL • Rspec / Capybara / Cucumber (for TDD and BDD testing) In the past year, I was a developer on the Sage Live Project, this uses the Salesforce technology stack (Java ‘apex’ for server side, ‘lightning experience for frontend’ – HTML5, CSS and Javascript) From having a tough start in Newcastle learning the Sage Live application. This included: • The Salesforce domain itself • Apex programming (for backend programming and especially for the API calls) • Salesforce Lightning components • Visualforce (for older UI) • Aura web framework • JavaScript (for controllers, helper functions and heavy debugging of it) • HTML5 • CSS • Git • Jira • Secure server-side programming. • Test-driven development • Unit testing • SOQL • SQL • Java programming and Java annotations All this in 16 weeks from knowing nothing about the platform, domain and the programming languages themselves to being able to securely program, write production code, build up relationships and deliver a tough project in a short space of time. I have supported myself through this process by learning Salesforce Apex by going through related plural sight courses in my spare time.