Billie Thompson

Billie Thompson has a diverse work experience in software development and consulting roles. They started their career in 2012 at Be On, a division of AOL Networks, where they worked as a Software Developer, focusing on performance improvements for a project using the Storm parallelization framework.

In 2013, Billie joined the Home Office as a PHP Developer and later took on the role of WebOps. They were involved in the development of a Symfony 2 application that logged enquiries into the Press Office and managed press-related tasks.

From 2014 to 2015, Billie worked at eBooks by Sainsbury's as a Software Developer, primarily developing the API for an Ebooks platform using a custom framework similar to Symfony.

In 2015, Billie joined Transform UK as a Principal Consultant and helped lead a team of developers in developing an application using a Microservices architecture and agile development practices.

In 2016, Billie worked at Fitbug as a Lead Developer, where they trained and managed multiple development teams and introduced code quality techniques. They also performed work on future architecture development using PHP and frameworks such as Fat Free and Symfony.

Between 2016 and 2021, Billie worked at Armakuni, initially as a Software Developer and later as a Lead Consulting Engineer. No end date is specified for the Lead Consulting Engineer role, indicating that they are currently employed in that position.

Throughout their career, Billie has gained experience in various technologies and methodologies including TDD, BDD, API Discovery, and various PHP frameworks.

Billie Thompson obtained a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Computer Science from Aberystwyth University, where they attended from 2006 to 2010. Prior to that, they attended Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form from 2004 to 2006, although no specific degree or field of study is mentioned. Billie also holds additional certifications, including VMware Certified Master Specialist - Cloud Native 2020 from VMware, obtained in December 2020, and CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator from The Linux Foundation, obtained in October 2020.