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Adrian Soomro

Product-focused Fullstack Software Engineer

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About

Hi there, I'm Adrian. I enjoy building products that bring value to its users. Focused on developing the right solution, using the best tools for the job. Keen on helping invidividuals and organisations with the 'why & how' rather than only the 'how'.
Author of NoobVim and other productivity tools.

Work Experience

2022 - now

Senior Software Engineer - Netcompany

Was an instrumental team member in cutting the running costs by 50% for England's Covid Pass App team. Led a team of 8 to create an internal management tool. Supported non-technical team with ServiceNow solution to replace legacy system. Currently tech-leading a team to replace a bespoke legacy search engine within NHS' Spine II with OpenSearch.

AzureAWSAzure PipelinesTFDockerGit Actions
AzureAWSAzure PipelinesTFDockerGit Actions
C#JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonBashPowershell
C#JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonBashPowershell
MongoDBSvelteReactOpenSearchServiceNowMSSQLRedisDynamoDB
MongoDBSvelteReactOpenSearchServiceNowMSSQLRedisDynamoDB

2022 - 2022

Full-Stack Software Engineer - Capgemini Invent

Played a crucial role in the rollout of DWP's Access To Work programme. Worked closely with the designers and user-research team to build UIs compliant with the government policies using the CASA framework.

AWSTFDockerGit Actions
AWSTFDockerGit Actions
JavaJavaScriptTypeScriptBash
JavaJavaScriptTypeScriptBash
CASAMongoDBSpringOracleDBSassExpress.jsRedis
CASAMongoDBSpringOracleDBSassExpress.jsRedis

2021 - 2022

Software Engineer - BJSS

Used to be a part of a small, close-knit team within a massive project focused on a re-platforming exercise crucial to the business. Responsible for integrations between various services in an event-driven stack.

AzureAWSTFDocker
AzureAWSTFDocker
JavaJavaScriptTypeScriptBash
JavaJavaScriptTypeScriptBash
AMQPSpringPactGraphQLCommercetoolsForgeRockRedis
AMQPSpringPactGraphQLCommercetoolsForgeRockRedis

2019 - 2020

Placement Software Engineer - BJSS

Helped build the Buying Catalogue for the NHS, focusing on various areas of the system. Developed back-end functionality, integration and end-to-end tests, and eventually the infrastructure. Played a crucial role in rolling out ephemeral environments and switching over to CD model.

AzureTFDockerAzure PipelinesKubernetes
AzureTFDockerAzure PipelinesKubernetes
C#JavaScriptTypeScriptBashPowershell
C#JavaScriptTypeScriptBashPowershell
HelmMSSQLAzure PipelinesAllureExpress.jsRedis
HelmMSSQLAzure PipelinesAllureExpress.jsRedis

Side projects

2023

dotfiles đź”—

A repository that holds all useful dotfiles needed to setup a development environment quickly. Use on any *nix system, benefit most on those that use Bash.

Bash•Git•Markdown

2022

NoobVim đź”—

A nvim config for absolute noobs beginners that aims to provide an easier transition from mainstream IDEs into NeoVim.

Lua•Bash•Vimscript

2022

jira-commenter đź”—

An Azure DevOps marketplace extension for automating JIRA workflows. Used to let the build pipeline comment a link to your PR on the relevant JIRA ticket.

TypeScript•JavaScript•Bash

2021

PDGToolkit đź”—

A Cross platform, game-engine independant 2D game development accelerator, used for procedurally generating 2D dungeons from a configuration file. Usable through CLI, or as a library.

C#•JavaScript