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HeadshotI am Andy Pook.

For work I am a contract software developer. Mainly in the backend with C#, dotnet Core, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, api’s and various datastores.

For fun, I am a competition Skydiver. A member of the UK national team, representing Team GB at various World Championships.

Recent work

Oval Money [Contract Developer]

2022-June - present / Fractional Investment project

Fractional Investment project:
A system to process user orders for financial instruments in partial amounts.

Partly a modernisation project. Placing streaming api’s in front of legacy feeds.
The core order processing system written using akka.net. Various services to integrate with pricing; 3rd party buy/sell and account/bank operations; interact with in-house systems to tie it all together.

dotnet 6/7 with aspnetcore, akka.net; kafka; postgresql; sql server.
Hosted with kubernetes in AWS.
CI-CD using gitlab, helm, argocd

tech: dotnet, csharp, Kubernetes, Kafka, akka.net, gitlab, argocd
work: coding, architecture, devops
See CV (pdf) for my full work history