December 2014 – February 2017 - ASOS Plc, DevOps and Technical Team Lead
Job Description
At ASOS I was responsible for the specification, implementation & monitoring of their mobile DevOps mobile CI pipeline (iOS / Android). This was a multi-discipline role which involved liaising with multiple product owners but internal and external to ASOS.
Whilst at ASOS I was also held the role of senior DevOps with significant overview for their multi-million pound digital transformation program. This transformation lead to the migration of their CI/CD pipeline from a bespoke Chef / DSC solution to TeamCity / Octopus Deploy.
Some of the technologies used at ASOS included:
- ASOS Transformation - Navisite (VMware) to Azure / ARM Templates
- ALM / Jenkins / BuddyBuild
- [[TeamCity]] / [[Octopus Deploy]]
- Infrastructure as Code (ARM / Docker)
- Chef PoshChef - Powershell Plugins
- C / C++ / Swift / X-Code / golang / iOS CI/CD solution
- Android Studio / Gradle
- PowerShell
- Bash
- Microsoft Azure / ALM / tfs / GitHub
- JIRA
- Modern JavaScript
In parallel with my employment at TAAP, Rik has developed a number of iOS applications for third parties utilising Swift, Objective-C, C# (Via Xamarin / Mono) and HTML5 / React.JS.
Also developed cross platform (Via Xamarin) .Net SOAP based UPnP media server for Linn Products.
Key technical reviewer for a number of Pearson Education iOS programming books, Including new volumes on Swift and iOS programming.