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Matthew Canty .Net Developer CV

Matthew Canty is a C# .Net developer with over 3 years of experience developing real-time applications using tools like WCF, WPF, ASP.NET, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, and RabbitMQ. He has worked as a developer at Sporting Index since 2011 where he built various services and tools to support data integration and management. His skills also include NodeJS, AngularJS, TDD/BDD, and agile methodologies. He has published personal projects on GitHub including a bus routes application and weather clock.

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Matthew Canty .Net Developer CV

Matthew Canty is a C# .Net developer with over 3 years of experience developing real-time applications using tools like WCF, WPF, ASP.NET, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, and RabbitMQ. He has worked as a developer at Sporting Index since 2011 where he built various services and tools to support data integration and management. His skills also include NodeJS, AngularJS, TDD/BDD, and agile methodologies. He has published personal projects on GitHub including a bus routes application and weather clock.

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07853 339 117

[email protected]
London, UK
github.com/matthewcanty


References available upon request
Matthew Canty
C# .Net 4.5 developer with over 3 years of experience developing high-availability real-time applications
using a range of open source and proprietary tools.

Skills
C# .Net 4.5 WCF WPF ASP.NET
MongoDB Elasticsearch RabbitMQ Specflow
JIRA FogBugz Trello Teamcity Splunk MediaWiki
TDD BDD Scrum Kanban Agile Development
NodeJS AngularJS HTML5

Employment
Sporting Index - Developer October 2011 - October 2014
Member of the Data Integration team in Sporting Solutions - part of Sporting Index Group. The Data
Integration services provide the business with global fixture, pricing and real-time in-play sporting data
from multiple sources across many sports.

Sporting Solutions is a fast-paced agile environment which follows continuous integration, continuous
deployment, test-driven and behaviour-driven practices.

- Built Winforms tools to support the team in diagnosing and repairing data issues.
- Created a stand-alone service to manage and provide player data over WCF.
- Utilised web technologies ASP.Net, AngularJS, Twitter Bootstrap, Javascript, JQuery and HTML5 to
create a web service for in-house teams to manage data.
- Administrated MongoDB, Elasticsearch and RabbitMQ clusters running on Linux to mitigate failover
and maximise performance.
- Key developer in switching from Oracle Lucene to Elasticsearch. Built service to manage
Elasticsearch clusters and apply mappings, aliases and automatic backups.
- Used Specflow to aid a BDD approach when migrating from Lucene to Elasticsearch.
- Followed agile development practices with Kanban with Scrum methodologies using JIRA (FogBugz
previously) to track workflow.
- TDD used throughout all projects and services to ensure code is a consistent and bugs are mitigated.
- Created queries in Splunk to provide real-time metrics, analysis and alerting.
- Integrated various sports data feeds including Betfair, Enetpulse, SIS, Abelson. Each feed had their
own message delivery mechanisms - IBM Websphere MQ, FTP, REST, IMAP - and data protocols
and JSON, XML, CSV, bespoke line-based, spreadsheet.
Maintained team Wiki pages on the companys WikiMedia server.

07853 339 117
[email protected]
London, UK
github.com/matthewcanty


References available upon request
Education
Lancaster University 2008 - 2011
BSc Information Technology and Media Communications (First Class Honors)
Courses included: Introduction to Objective-C, Database Design, Image Manipulation with Matlab, Game
Theory, 3D Video Production.
BSc Computer Science (Minor)
Java Programming, Fundamentals of Computer Science.
Personal Projects
All projects available on my Github profile - github.com/matthewcanty

Bus Routes busroutes.matthewcanty.co.uk
Web application which displays TFL bus route data on a map.
- Front end is built with HTML5 and AngularJS. Makes use of Angular services and controllers to
handle the user input and progress messages.
- Back end runs on NodeJS. NodeJS handles communication with MongoDB and contains
functionality to update data from TFL.
- The application runs on Heroku (back end API) and Digital Ocean (front end).
- Website built from simple Twitter Bootstrap elements for rapid development.
- TDD/BDD practices followed throughout development.
- Used Cloud9 as development environment, a cloud based IDE.

Weather Clock
Show rain forecast on a clock face
- Client side application using Angular JS and ProcessingJS.
- Utilises Forecast.IO and Googles Places API and Reverse Geocoding API.

Other Info
I regularly attend the monthly Hacker News meetup in central London.

I am an active gigging bass player. In the past I have performed at festivals, on live TV and radio and
many gigs.

I have completed several cycle-sportives - including Coast to Coast in a Day and Lands End to John
OGroats in which I raised 2600 for charity.

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