Whesley Barnard

Whesley Barnard has extensive work experience as a software developer, with a focus on senior roles. Whesley began their career as a Software Developer at Eliance, where they developed and maintained the McCarthy Callacar application. Whesley also created a new administration module for the application.

Whesley then worked at Signify Software as a Software Developer, where they developed, maintained, and supported a Human Resource and Learning Management web application. Whesley mentored junior developers and analyzed code for performance improvements. Whesley later transitioned to the role of Senior Software Developer at Signify Software, where they continued to develop and support the web application and analyzed code for performance improvements.

After that, Whesley joined Discovery Limited as a Senior Software Developer, working on the Vitality-Baby and Vitality-Kids web applications. These applications allowed members to subscribe to medical aid benefits for babies and children. Whesley developed Java web servlet applications that integrated with back-end web services.

Whesley then worked as a Senior Software Developer at MultiChoice on the Media-Catalogue-API microservices, which provided information about TV shows and movies. Whesley implemented a Jenkins continuous integration pipeline supported by Docker for these microservices.

Whesley also worked as a Senior Software Developer (Entelect Contractor) at Momentum, where they were involved in developing a Smart-Retirement web application and focused on improving development processes and technologies.

At Entelect, Whesley worked as a Senior Software Developer and was contracted to various companies. Whesley provided internal training sessions and worked on different projects, such as developing a Smart-Retirement web application at Momentum.

At FieldFLEX Mobile, they served as a Technical Lead and was responsible for creating and approving functional and technical design specifications. Whesley worked with multiple teams to implement new features and distributed the implementation work among team members. Whesley also served as a Senior Software Developer at FieldFLEX Mobile, designing and implementing core components and providing estimates for agile projects.

Whesley's most recent role was at Shopify, where they served as a Senior Software Developer. Whesley worked on the Fulfillment Network system (Shopify-Logistics) and created and maintained components for Shopify merchants to induct their merchandise into the warehousing system. Whesley was also a core contributor to a project that established a new cloud-based development environment for Shopify-Logistics developers.

Currently, Whesley works as a Senior Software Developer at theScore.

Whesley Barnard has a diverse education history in the field of computer software engineering and project management. In 2008, Barnard attended the Computer Training Institute (CTI) in Collaboration with the University of Cambridge, earning an Information Systems Engineering Diploma in IS (Eng.) with a focus on computer software engineering. The following year, in 2009, Barnard attended the University of Greenwich and obtained a BSc (Hons) Business Information Technology Degree with a specialization in computer software engineering. Additionally, in the same year, Barnard also attended the Computer Training Institute (CTI) and earned a Level 5 BTEC i Higher National Diploma. Furthermore, Barnard attended the same institute in collaboration with the London School of Business Management and obtained a Certificate in Project Management.

In terms of additional certifications, Barnard acquired the Oracle Certified Associate, Java SE 8 Programmer certification from Oracle in December 2016 and the Pivotal Certified Spring Professional certification from Pivotal Software, Inc. in October 2015.