Oscar Lingard
Software Engineer
About Me
Who am I?
My name is Oscar Lingard and I'm a professional software engineer living and working in Manchester, UK. With a passion for coding and an experience store which continues to grow, I help create cutting-edge software solutions that allow businesses achieve their goals.
I specialize in DevOps with a strong coding background in languages including Typescript, Python and Rust. I have a particular focus on building AWS and Fastly cloud services on the edge.
Education
THG Accelerator
Durham University
BSc Mathematics: 1st Class Honours
Skills
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Experience
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Software Engineer II | THG
- I built a delivery platform specialising in allowing one-click deployments of highly performant e-commerce sites.
- We reduced the deployment time for sites from 6 hours to 4 minutes.
- Migrated multiple sites over to our new architecture, successfully managing DNS and TLS to enable a 0 down-time migration.
- Led a team of 8 to move our architecture over to run on Fastly rust edge services.
- I built a delivery platform specialising in allowing one-click deployments of highly performant e-commerce sites.
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Software Engineer | THG
- I worked on the project to radically overhaul the website Coggles.
- We dropped TTFB by 70%.
- We improved SEO rankings by 20%.
- I introduced a CMS to give the content management team greater flexibility.
- I worked closely with data pipeline team to introduce and monitor a brand new data pipeline for the new site.
- I was a key member of the team overseeing the architecture switch at 2am.
- I worked with our new starters to onboard them and bring our team size up from 3 to 11.
- I planned weekly sprint items and led the sprint ceremonies.
- I worked on the project to radically overhaul the website Coggles.
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Graduate Software Engineer | THG
I joined THG to switch career trajectories and move into software engineering. I began their intense 6 month Accelerator training course to convert people who have shown an affinity towards software to software engineers.
- I completed an in-depth 3 month course on Java spanning from reflection to Spring Boot.
- In the pair project, I created a Shazam-like application in a week and presented our work to our peers.
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I joined the Research and Development team after the Accelerator, a small team of only myself and my manager.
- I was part of the team which built the patent-pending foundation finder tool.
- We successfully delivered this tool on time with it now hosted on Look Fantastic.
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Graduate Commercial Analyst | Booking.com
During my graduate rotations, I have been able to experience multiple branches of the business. Highlights include:
- Being actively sought out and asked to be one of the sole analysts in a high-profile marketing campaign.
- Leading the creation of new and innovative forecasting methods in light of the Covid pandemic.
- Presenting my analysis and recommendations to key stakeholders which are being used to further product development.