Paul U.

Paul U. is an experienced Senior Java Developer with a strong background in financial systems. Paul has worked for multiple companies, including Mercuria Energy Trading S.A., Credit Suisse, HSBC, M&G Investments, RBS Global Banking & Markets, ABN, and Deutsche Bank.

At Mercuria Energy Trading S.A., Paul was involved in all aspects of designing, building, and testing a greenfield project to create a Finance Subledger. This project involved sourcing data from two trading systems, cleaning and enriching the data, and storing it for submission to the General Ledger and P&L reporting.

At Credit Suisse, Paul worked as a Lead Java Developer on the Myriad project within the risk department. Paul led a team of six developers and focused on developing enterprise integration solutions using Java, Spring Integration, and Oracle Coherence. Paul spent significant time designing solutions to handle increasing data volumes.

At HSBC, Paul worked as a Senior Java Developer on the Volcker Reporting project. Paul'sresponsibilities included integrating data from various sources using messaging, FTP, and web services. Paul also developed a calculation engine for the Volcker rules and sourced reference data from a RESTful service.

Paul also worked as a Contract Java Developer at M&G Investments, where they developed Spring Integration, Spring Batch, and Spring Data applications as part of an Enterprise Data Integration project. Paul'stechnologies included Java, Spring, Hibernate, Hazelcast, Oracle, WebSphereMQ, and Git.

Prior to that, Paul worked as a Senior Java Developer and Data Warehousing specialist at RBS Global Banking & Markets. Paul'stechnologies included Java, Spring MVC, ehCache, Hibernate, and Oracle.

Before RBS Global Banking & Markets, Paul worked as a Senior Developer at ABN for six years and as a Developer at Deutsche Bank for two years.

Overall, Paul U. has gained valuable experience in designing and developing financial systems, enterprise integration solutions, and data warehousing using various technologies throughout their career.

Paul U. began their education at the University of Brighton from 1987 to 1991, where they obtained a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Computer Software Engineering.

In terms of additional certifications, Paul U. has completed several courses and programs. In 2016, they obtained the "Functional Programming Principles in Scala" certificate from Coursera Course Certificates. Paul also became an Oracle Certified Professional, Java SE 8 Programmer, through Oracle in May 2016. Additionally, in May 2015, they achieved the "Oracle Certified Professional, Java SE 7 Programmer" certification from Oracle and completed the "M101J: MongoDB for Java Developers" program offered by MongoDB, Inc.

More recently, in 2021, Paul U. obtained several certifications related to blockchain technology. These include "Blockchain Platforms" from The State University of New York in August, "Decentralized Applications (Dapps)" from The State University of New York in June, "Blockchain Basics" from The State University of New York in May, and "Smart Contracts" from The State University of New York in May.