resume.json

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    "name": "Joseph Finlayson",
    "label": "Digital Lead and Developer",
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    "email": "joseph.finlayson@gmail.com",
    "phone": "+4917698455845",
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    "summary": "An experienced technology leader with a proven track record of delivering results, a founder who has built teams and companies from scratch\n  * Extensive experience in defining and executing digital strategies and building high performance teams\n  * Expert in IT architecture and building high performance modern systems\n  * Expert in Agile Engineering practices including DevOps\n\nI care about building an inclusive environment where people can do their best work. I believe that engineers should be relentlesly focussed on their customers.\n\nKey achievements:\n\n* Founded sablecard.com -> a bank for internationals in the US. Hired a 10 member Berlin team, and scaled to $100 million in deposits\n* Built technical teams (at McKinsey) from scratch to 60+ employees, with a focus on mentoring and continuous learning\n* Led successful delivery and turnaround of multiple nightmare projects\n* Lastly I've given conference talks on frontend technologies, and won hackathons at some of the world's leading companies (Facebook, Allianz, Tesco).",
    "location": {
      "countryCode": "DE",
      "address": "Berlin, Berlin, Germany"
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        "network": "LinkedIn",
        "username": "joseph-finlayson",
        "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-finlayson/"
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        "network": "Github",
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  "work": [
    {
      "name": "Sable",
      "position": "CTO",
      "startDate": "2019-06-31",
      "endDate": "2020-12-31",
      "highlights": [],
      "url": "https://www.sablecard.com",
      "summary": "  Between San-Francisco, New York and Berlin, my co-founders and I built a fully digital bank on the cloud - with checking account, credit and debit cards. We raised $7 million in outside capital, and by the time of my departure were making $20k MRR. Extensive experience in business operations (Geschaeftsfuhrer role), as well as technology and people leadership. After stepping down as CTO, I led the data team to build a \"self-serve\" analytics platform using open source technologies - so that anyone in the company could access aggregate data about customers and transactions, and worked on statistical methods to identify fraud."
    },
    {
      "name": "McKinsey & Company",
      "startDate": "2016-08-31",
      "endDate": "2019-08-31",
      "position": "Digital Expert",
      "highlights": [],
      "summary": "- Engineering Lead at a Portuguese bank - leading three engineering teams on what to build and how to build it 2018 - 2019\n\n- Architect at a German insurer - developing & implementing greenfield architecture to compete with Digital Attackers - 2018\n\n- Full Stack and DevOps developer on innovative, IOT \"Fitbit for dogs\" project (tech: AWS Lambda, NodeJS)  - 2016\n\n- DevOps consultant at a Russian Bank (working with 30+ developers to improve feature delivery and testing) - increased E2E test coverage by 80% - 2017-18\n\n- Tech lead at a Czech bank (tech: Java 8, Spring Boot, React Native, React JS, DevOps) -  2017\n"
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      "name": "Hubrick",
      "startDate": "2015-06-30",
      "endDate": "2016-07-31",
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      "position": "Senior Developer",
      "summary": "Worked on a modern stack of React, RxJS, Node and ES7 for an e-commerce start-up, responsible for feature delivery, and writing clean, well tested code. Conducted screening interviews, and on-boarded new hires.",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/hubrick/"
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    {
      "name": "ReDI School of Digital Integration",
      "startDate": "2016-01-31",
      "endDate": "2016-12-30",
      "position": "Volunteer teacher",
      "highlights": [],
      "summary": "Volunteer instructor in Ruby/Ruby on Rails for new arrivals to Germany from Syria. Later founded a seperate school based out of IXDS with a combination of professional designers and refugees as students.",
      "url": "https://www.redi-school.org/"
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    {
      "name": "Accenture",
      "startDate": "2012-05-31",
      "endDate": "2014-09-30",
      "position": "Strategy Associate",
      "highlights": [],
      "summary": "Part of the management consulting workstream, working primarily with public sector clients. I learnt to code in order to automate my work.",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/accenture/"
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    {
      "name": "Sandbag Climate Campaign",
      "startDate": "2009-09-30",
      "endDate": "2010-01-31",
      "position": "Carbon Policy Intern",
      "highlights": [],
      "summary": "I helped write papers relating to EU Emissions Trading System policy (carbon credit cap and trade) and attended the UNFCCC in Copenhagen.",
      "url": "https://sandbag.be/"
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      "institution": "University of Leeds",
      "area": "",
      "studyType": "Bachelor's degree",
      "startDate": "2007-12-31",
      "endDate": "2011-12-31",
      "gpa": "2:1",
      "courses": [
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      "title": "Facebook & Intertech Hackathon winner",
      "date": "2014-09-30",
      "awarder": "Facebook"
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    {
      "title": "Tesco Hackathon winner",
      "date": "2014-09-30",
      "awarder": "Tesco"
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      "keywords": [
        "React",
        "Angular"
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      "name": "Python",
      "level": "Intermediate +",
      "keywords": [
        "Pandas",
        "Flask"
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    {
      "name": "Cloud Deployment",
      "level": "Expert",
      "keywords": [
        "AWS",
        "GCP",
        "Kubernetes"
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    {
      "name": "Product Management",
      "level": "Expert",
      "keywords": [
        "Grooming",
        "Epics",
        "Scrum",
        "Kanban"
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      "language": "en",
      "fluency": "Native Speaker"
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    {
      "language": "de",
      "fluency": "Intermediate plus"
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    {
      "name": "Certified Scrum Master (CSM)",
      "startDate": "2017-03-31"
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    {
      "name": "Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)",
      "startDate": "2018-11-30"
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