Rick Rees
Senior Developer at Genomics England
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRick Rees is a Senior Developer with 11+ years of hands-on experience building robust Java/J2EE systems and delivering practical, performance-conscious solutions across media, telecoms, finance and genomics. He combines deep expertise in Spring, Hibernate, testing and security with a strong grounding in databases (Oracle, MySQL, Sybase) and Unix tooling, and holds Sun Certified Java Programmer credentials. Comfortable in Agile/Scrum environments, Rick has repeatedly driven delivery on large-scale projects at organisations such as Genomics England, the BBC and Fidelity, often focusing on performance tuning and secure web architectures. He also brings polyglot experience—Ruby, C and shell scripting—and a pragmatic TDD/BDD approach using JUnit and Cucumber. Colleagues rely on him as an effective team player who bridges legacy systems and modern practices to produce maintainable, testable code. Based in England with a BSc from the University of Exeter, he’s known for translating complex domain requirements into elegant, production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, BSc at University of Exeter
Github Skills (7)
visualizations10
grails-plugin10
grails9
kibana9
observability9
elastic9
elasticsearch9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
genomicsengland/DQ_QueryResolution
Mar 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:55 pushes in 2 months
rickreesrr/mysharona
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:6 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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