Alistair Mills
Engineering Director at Runpath
17.2
Years of Experience
Education
university of wales aberystwyth
Companies
runpath, runpath, experian data quality, experian data quality, experian data quality, experian data quality, experian data quality, experian data quality
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Experience
2019 - Present
runpath
Engineering Director
2018 - 2019
runpath
Head of Platform Development
Leading our teams of developers and SDETs creating the Experian Open Data Platform, Mortgage Origination capabilities and financial product market place solutions. The Experian Open Data Platform includes the UKs largest Open Banking Platform allowing our partners to give clarity to and improve the financial lives of their users. Facilitating and pushing forward our agile transition across our delivery teams and out into the wider business. Tech Partner for several clients representing their technical visions to their users and helping get investment into their businesses Supporting multiple audits from internal and external bodies as well as continually challenging best practices and approach to our internal regulatory and compliance practices. Aiming to continually provide positive culture change - from increased and varied communication to a more pro-active reward and "thanks" approach.
2015 - 2018
experian data quality
Development Manager
A hands on Software Development Manger, leading a team of 9 software developers and technical authors contributing to 3 delivery teams. - Devising and delivering strategies to improve the user experience, quality and velocity of delivery for our awesome products. - Balancing the needs of new initiatives and ideas against our users happiness and satisfaction with our traditional product range. - Helping the team to establish a technical goal that complements and aids the commercial road map - Working with the rest of the management team and scrum masters / agile coaches to ensure the successful running of the department. - Member of one of our delivery teams delivering our new SaaS based Address Capture and Validation solution. Using technologies and languages including C#, C++, ElasticSearch, WebApi and G-Test.
2012 - 2013
experian data quality
Scrum Master
Scrum master (part time) for one of our core front office delivery streams during our transition to agile development. - Worked closely with our US based Product Owner to create the initial backlog and prioritise the work for the team - Facilitated ceremonies and aimed to maximise stakeholder involvement - Ensured backlog evolved and was ready for the team to attack.
2012 - 2013
experian data quality
Team Leader (Maternity & Sabbatical cover)
Team leader for a small team to cover Maternity and Sabbatical leave - Responsible for half year and full year appraisals
2012 - 2015
experian data quality
Lead Developer
Lead Developer in a small team responsible for the development, deployment and support of our core address data quality technology. - Maintaining and enhancing our core products ( C / C++ / C#) - Focusing on reducing cost of ownership to allow fresh innovation - Delivering a range of Web Services, API's and Standalone products for OnPremise and SaaS use. - Reacting to emerging requirements - working with product owners and stakeholders to understand and prioritise bugs, features and internal needs - Collaborating with teams in Malaysia and USA. - Developing and delivering on a technical roadmap and user stories to ensure the integrity of our core products
2008 - 2012
experian data quality
Developer
Various roles and projects including: US Territory expert - Working with our US Sales office to plan budgets, develop and monitor road maps and maintain a successful relationship between our technical teams. - Planning and tracking work for our team of cross-territory developers and testers QAS Electronic Updates - Product Expert for our on-line data distribution platform. - Enhanced, configured and maintained our hosted solution for effective and user friendly data updates. - Prototyped an improved offering using Windows Azure. Working on a range of high value products both individually and as part of a team.
2007 - 2008
experian data quality
Escalations / 3rd Line Support Developer
- Handled support requests from our global offices - Regular feedback, updates and re-prioritisation with our stakeholders - Producing minor maintenance releases for our key clients as needed - Developing and maintaining our installers (InstallShield) - Training new team members on our products and working practices
Experience
15 Skills
auditing
banking
C#
C++
Communication
Elastic Search
ElasticSearch
Representational State Transfer (REST)
REST
SaaS
Scrum
Software Engineer
test
User Experience
User Experience (UX)
Education
2002 - 2005
university of wales aberystwyth
Bachelor of Science (BSc)
Computer Science
