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.