Neil Stevenson
Information Technology Project Manager
Addington, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNeil Stevenson is an Information Technology Project Manager and CISSP with over a decade of experience blending software engineering, security architecture and programme delivery across financial services, transportation and manufacturing. He has progressed from hands-on development into leading cross-functional teams and turning around underperforming initiatives, notably delivering Deltek Cobra cost and performance systems on time and under budget for a multi-stakeholder rail upgrade. Neil designs practical ISO27000-aligned information security management systems and has led cloud transformation and GDPR-related security work at enterprise scale. Technically literate, he has contributed backend Spring Boot code to Hazelcast code samples demonstrating practical experience with session caching and distributed systems. A trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, he is completing MSc studies in Information Security & Digital Forensics and combines tenacity with systems-thinking to manage complexity and emerging risks.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
TB871 - Making strategy with systems thinking in practice, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Pass, TB871 - Making strategy with systems thinking in practice, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Pass at The Open UniversityBSc, Computer Science & Microprocessor Systems, Honours, BSc, Computer Science & Microprocessor Systems, Honours at Strathclyde
Github Skills (10)
javas10
hazelcast10
web-development10
web-application10
webapp10
java10
spring-boot10
distributed-systems9
caching9
thymeleaf7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
hazelcast/hazelcast-code-samples
Sep 2016 - May 2022
Hazelcast Code Samples
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 34 commits, 63 PRs in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Neil primarily contributed to the development of a Spring Boot application. Their work focused on creating a `springboot-http` module, demonstrating an understanding of building web applications with Spring. The changes included configuring Hazelcast for HTTP session storage, indicating experience with caching and distributed systems. They also implemented controller logic and a basic Thymeleaf-based UI for testing session behavior.
javahazelcastin-memoryscalability
neilstevenson/zipkin
Jul 2017 - Oct 2022
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
opentelemetryzipkintracingdistributed-tracingopentracing
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