Summary
Mark Heyward-chaplin is a Senior Java Software Engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience designing and delivering enterprise-grade Java systems, now contracting on Sky's Online Video Platform. He brings deep expertise in Java, Kotlin and Groovy, strong OO design and ORM skills, and practical experience with cloud-native container management using Kubernetes and Docker. Mark has a long track record across retail and media giants—IKEA, John Lewis, Lego, Burberry, Disney and others—frequently working with ATG / Oracle Web Commerce stacks and Spring Boot microservices. He is comfortable across databases from Cassandra to Oracle and DB2, and in building distributed services with REST, SOAP, JMS and EJB. Known for combining pragmatic Agile practices (XP, sprints, retros) with low-level systems knowledge, he often bridges commerce platform specialization with modern devops and containerized delivery.
4 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BSc 1st class hons, Computer Science, BSc 1st class hons, Computer Science at Kingston University