Neil White
Technical Team Lead at ThinkOn Inc.
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNeil White is a Technical Team Lead and Java developer with nine years of experience building and modernizing cloud-native microservices from Halifax, Nova Scotia. He specializes in lifting legacy Java stacks to modern Java 17 and Spring Boot, improving security and performance while driving measurable developer velocity—cutting CI/CD times in half through strategic caching and job optimization. A hands-on coach who favors pair-programming and “show, not tell” mentorship, he champions practical code review practices and feature flags to enable safer, faster releases. Neil also implemented observability across Kubernetes using the LGTM stack and OpenTelemetry, turning runtime signals into actionable reliability improvements. Colleagues rely on him as a trusted technical decision-maker who balances shipping features with reducing technical debt and growing team capability.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at NSCCInformation Technology - Data Analytics, Information Technology - Data Analytics at Nova Scotia Community College
Github Skills (2)
github10
git10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
neil-writes-code/spring-native-aws-demo
Oct 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:11 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
neil-writes-code/reactive-spring-demo
Sep 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 18 days
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