David Milligan
Senior Software Engineer at Micro Focus
Belfast Metropolitan Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Milligan is a Senior Software Engineer based in Belfast with 6 years of recent experience building cloud-native, Java-based systems that span Kubernetes, Kafka streaming, and Spring Boot. He has driven production-grade data pipelines and real-time message routing for financial services and enterprise customers, with hands-on expertise in TDD, CI/CD, Concourse, and observability tooling like Prometheus and SonarQube. A pragmatic technical lead, he has run EMEA client connectivity releases and compliance work while also contributing to cross-border teams and offshore delivery. He prefers team-led TDD cultures and consistently focuses on reliable, testable APIs and resilient streaming architectures that cache for historical reference. Notably, his background stretches from low-latency messaging and ETL systems to large e-commerce and workforce-management platforms, giving him a rare blend of real-time and transactional systems experience.
6 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at University of Ulster
Github Skills (14)
documented9
keycloak8
audit-trail8
saml8
auditing8
security7
filesystem7
access-management6
dms5
audit5
monitoring5
java-module3
docker-image3
maven-plugin2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
DavidGerald-Milligan/Diagramming
Aug 2021 - Jul 2025
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
MicroFocus/fortify-issue-manager
Jan 2022 - Aug 2025
Contributions:20 reviews, 4 PRs, 23 pushes in 3 years 7 months
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