WILLIAM LACY
williamlacy2@gmail.com
linkedin.com/in/william-lacy-0986aa25/
07824301856
I am a highly motivated self-starter with a passion for learning and new ideas. I demonstrate this with rich
experience in complex integration delivery for clients in retail, defence, government, industrial and financial
services, where I stretch myself and innovate to deliver above and beyond their expectations. Having achieved a
first class degree in Physics and the Dean’s commendation for highest academic achievement in my 3rd stage of
study, my drive and ambition has no limits.
SENIOR FULLSTACK DEVELOPER, IBM November 2010 - Present
7 client facing roles covering the full delivery life cycle across retail, finance, public and industrial sectors.
Lead JavaScript Fullstack Developer, Post Office
The project was to design and develop Post Office point
of sale solution. In total, 60 products sold were to be
developed as individual JavaScript fullstack microservices.
I led the development of the pathfinder (factory
creating) scrum team as the project’s SME in the full
development stack for Release 1: JavaScript, AngularJS,
NodeJS, Express and automated test frameworks;
including Protractor Jasmine and Mocha.
As the projects SME in DevOps tooling and best
practices, I selected, installed and developed tooling
that is used for all Release 1 development.
I designed and developed, with pipeline as code, the
full delivery pipeline all the way to production using
cloud deploy and dockerised cloud compute for builds.
New JavaScript fullstack projects checked into git had
a pipeline auto-provisioned, which saved the project
over 500 man days. I introduced project consistency
by having a single source of truth for code quality and
metrics for 60 applications.
I created and managed the governance across 8 scrum
teams, employing tooling for example failing builds
when coverage went below 80% for a microservice.
I grew a self sustained contribution model for creating
and sharing common UI, Server and Build componentry.
This includes a customized Yeoman generator, custom
bower and node modules; a bootstrap style docs page
and build pipeline and infrastructure generation. It is
estimated that componentry would account for 80%
of the development effort of every microservice.
IBM 3 day DevOps Technical Workshop
This workshop was to educate IBM colleagues up to
partner level on DevOps best practives. The course was
made up of 60% practical labs. The feedback from the 40
attendees was excellent.
I was a technical facilator in labs and presented IBM
Bluemix, static analysis and pipeline as code.
williamlacy.herokuapp.com
github.com/William1444
UI developer and DevOps engineer, Visa
The project was to develop the UI and Service Layer for 3
mobile and desktop applications for V.Me virtual wallet.
I led the prototyping of a fullstack JavaScript application
that onboarded V.Me merchants’ developers providing
them an integration environment and developer
documentation. I developed the prototype for a native
Android app for card suspension. I created stubbed
Java Springboot REST APIs simulating Visa’s backend.
I provided 3rd line support in and out of hours as the
UI SME, by developing and delivering several hot fixes
into production.
Java Developer and DevOps engineer, IKEA
Working with Oractle ATG specialists, e2x, as part of a
large scrum team, the IKEA project was to develop Oracle
ATG REST APIs for IKEA’s new ecommerce platform.
Developed REST APIs using Java, Spring and Jersey
with an ORM similar to Hibernate. Maintained 85%
test coverage using Groovy Spock. Developed the REST
test harness written in AngularJS.
Led a project to create the full build automation for an
Oracle ATG application written by IBM GD resources.
Developed a Linux image for Oracle ATG development
saving the project an estimated 160 man days.
OTHER KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
Published the following developerWorks articles:
• Implement performance engineering in to the Agile
lifecycle, where I describe bespoke automation I
created to test performance in CI
• How to extend and customize Rational Team
Concert for continuous integration
Performed an impromptu hackathon to create the Post
Office a REST application to manage their store data,
and a 3rd party store finder application integrating with
these store APIs. The audience I demoed to included the
Post Office CTO and IBM partner and they were thrilled.
SKILLS EDUCATION

Fullstack JavaScript Development: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER – PHYSICS BSC WITH HONS

ECMA 6 and below September 2006 – June 2009
AngularJS
jQuery • I graduated with a high 1st.
NodeJS and Express • I received the Dean’s commendation for outstanding
MongoDB, Cloudant & CouchDB. academic achievement at the 3rd stage of study.
HTML, Less, CSS & Bootstrap
Jasmine up to 2.3, Karma, Protractor, Mocha, Chai & CHICHESTER HIGH SCHOOL SIXTH FORM
Sinon September 1999 - June 2006
Grunt & Gulp
A-Levels : Physics A, Maths B, Chemistry C and
Server-side Development (REST): Philosophy C
Java SE6, 7 and 8, Spring, Hibernate, Jersey
Oracle ATG
Groovy
JSPs
SQL
Maven (including plugin development), Gradle & Ant
Junit, Spock, Mockito

Mobile Development:
Responsive web development
Swift (personal projects only)
Android (personal projects only)

DevOps, CI and Build:

Jenkins & Jenkins DSL
IBM Bluemix, Heroku
JMeter
Advanced Unix shell scripting

Collaboration:
Git, RTC, Bitbucket, Gitlab, Github, Stash, Jira, &
Confluence

Misc:
LDAP
Visual Basic Scripting, C
Oracle Application Server, WebSphere Applications
Server (WAS), Liberty, IntelliJ, Eclipse
Mac, Linux and PC.

References available on request