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    "name": "Graza Andersson",
    "label": "Senior Software / Platform Engineer",
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    "summary": "An experienced Software/Platform Engineer with a skill set spanning the entire lifecycle of software projects from concept through to retirement.",
    "website": "https://graza.io",
    "email": "hello@graza.io",
    "location": {
      "city": "Peak District",
      "countryCode": "UK"
    },
    "profiles": [
      {
        "url": "https://github.com/graza-io",
        "username": "graza-io",
        "network": "github"
      }
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  "education": [
    {
      "endDate": "2005-06",
      "startDate": "2003-09",
      "area": "Software Development (M/M/M), OCR Networking & ECDL",
      "studyType": "BTEC National Diploma",
      "institution": "Lancaster & Morecambe College"
    },
    {
      "endDate": "2003-06",
      "startDate": "2000-09",
      "area": "10x GCSEs",
      "studyType": "High School",
      "institution": "Ashton on Mersey School"
    }
  ],
  "references": [
    {
      "reference": "Available on request.",
      "name": "All References"
    }
  ],
  "skills": [
    {
      "keywords": ["HTML", "SCSS / CSS", "Javascript / Typescript"],
      "level": "Intermediate",
      "name": "Frontend"
    },
    {
      "keywords": ["C#", ".Net", "Golang", "SQL / Relational DB", "NoSQL", "GraphDB", "API", "Serverless", "Microservices", "Distributed Systems", "TDD", "DDD"],
      "level": "Senior",
      "name": "Backend"
    },
    {
      "keywords": ["AWS", "Terraform", "Ansible", "Scripting", "Docker", "Kubernetes", "Security", "HELM"],
      "level": "Senior",
      "name": "DevOps"
    }
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  "work": [
    {
      "summary": "Working as part of the centralised Platform Team, my responsibilities entailed ensuring that we have functioning CI/CD pipelines, Infra-as-Code: utilising Terraform for cloud and Ansible for on-premise infrastructure, cost optimisations, observability standards, governance, SSO including IdP integrations and ensuring the health and on-going maintenance of all deployed infrastructure including kubernetes clusters on EKS.</br>This role also allowed me to learn golang by working on custom Terraform providers, Steampipe plugins & more.",
      "website": "https://theapsgroup.com/",
      "name": "APS Group",
      "location": "Manchester",
      "position": "Platform Engineer",
      "startDate": "2020-02"
    },
    {
      "summary": "Working as a senior within a small team, I took a more leading role in the architecture and system design of our in-house and external software as well as co-ordinating a large integration/unification with systems built by our Netherlands office.</br>This position also allowed me to introduce better practices such as TDD & containerised deployments (Docker) as well as showcase some research into others microservices, DDD, etc.</br>I was also fortunate enough that during the earlier part of this role I was able to assist in mentoring some of the more junior members of the team.",
      "website": "https://theapsgroup.com/",
      "name": "APS Group",
      "location": "Manchester",
      "position": "Senior Software Engineer",
      "startDate": "2013-02",
      "endDate": "2020-02"
    },
    {
      "summary": "Working within a small team of 4, the main responsibilities for this role were the continued maintenance of legacy web applications with a focus on updating them to a newer MVC architecture.</br>This entailed working on the MVC site code, using Entity Framework to design and access databases and working in jQuery/KnockoutJS to enhance the client side, as well as designing some APIs.",
      "website": "",
      "name": "Equinox",
      "location": "Vancouver",
      "position": "Software Developer",
      "startDate": "2012-08",
      "endDate": "2013-01"
    },
    {
      "summary": "This role was mostly just a title change, in which I continued working on our 'simply suite' systems.</br>However, there was also some responsibility additions in looking into the next-gen of software, moving away from .Net WebForms and towards SPA/MVC based options with SOAP/REST based APIs.",
      "website": "https://theapsgroup.com/",
      "name": "APS Group",
      "location": "Manchester",
      "position": "Software Developer",
      "startDate": "2011-10",
      "endDate": "2012-07"
    },
    {
      "summary": "This was a varied role in which I reported to the Senior Developer team, my initial project was building a new rules engine based product for POS allocations for our retail clients.</br>After this initial solo project I became a part of the BAU team working on enhancing and maintenance of our software suite known colloquially as 'the simply suite', this included some integration projects as well as co-designing an automated reporting system.",
      "website": "https://theapsgroup.com/",
      "name": "APS Group",
      "location": "Manchester",
      "position": "Systems Analyst & Developer",
      "startDate": "2009-04",
      "endDate": "2011-10"
    },
    {
      "summary": "Working in both on-site and remote locations this role encompassed liaising with clients on how best to onboard into our digital systems via integrations and/or migrations as well as improving processes around how data is sent/received. Other responsibilities included but not limited to coordinating people to ensure that work could be carried out on time so as to ensure deadlines were met, as well as the requirements gathering and scoping of the tasks that needed to be completed.",
      "website": "https://theapsgroup.com/",
      "name": "APS Group",
      "location": "Manchester",
      "position": "Project Manager",
      "startDate": "2008-08",
      "endDate": "2009-04"
    },
    {
      "summary": "Working within a small team responsible for maintaining the integrity of data held within systems as well as producing monthly consolidated invoices for clients, MI & KPIs. This role relied heavily on investigation and analysis skills.",
      "website": "https://theapsgroup.com/",
      "name": "APS Group",
      "location": "Manchester",
      "position": "Data Analyst",
      "startDate": "2007-01",
      "endDate": "2008-08"
    },
    {
      "summary": "After college I undertook numerous freelance development jobs focusing on PHP frameworks such as Kohana & CodeIgnitor as well as some VB6/C++ work.</br>However, this was to supplement my income while working other jobs such as bar staff and till operator.",
      "website": "",
      "name": "Various",
      "location": "Lancaster",
      "position": "Freelance Developer",
      "startDate": "2005-08",
      "endDate": "2007-01"
    }
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  "interests": [
    {
      "name": "Spending Time With Family"
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    {
      "name": "Software Architecture & Development"
    },
    {
      "name": "Scenic Walks"
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    {
      "name": "Reading"
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