Robert Nowak

Freelance Java EE Developer, Team Leader

Born and raised in Steszew, I graduated from Poznan University of Technology with a master of science degree in Computer Science in 2007 and have been working on software development projects since.

When not enchanting software to run flawlessly, I enjoy (offline) socialising and cycling. I'm also pretty attached to my two main time consumers: Kindle & PS3.

  • Robert Nowak
  • www.robertnowak.pl

Employment

  • Software development for top investment banks - GFT (formerly Rule Financial) in PoznanFeb 2013 - onwards

    Big data project in secure lending area (2014-onwards)
    • Technical team leader, responsible for gathering requirements, design and implementation supervision.
    • JEE 7, Oracle Coherence, Spring Framework.
    Risk-assessment platform (2013-2014)
    • Appointed to be main Java developer on one of a delivery streams that built up to a risk-assessment platform. Designing the project architecture, code implementation and supervision, communication with the client
    • JEE 6 and 7, OSGI 4.2, Spring Framework 3, financial libraries
  • Software development for RocheOct 2011 - Feb 2013

    Systems integration platform (ongoing)
    • Created a message-driven data exchange system for the integration of Roche's heterogeneous systems.
    • JEE 6, OSGI 4.2, Spring Batch 2, Spring Integration 2, JBOSS A.S 7
    Design and development of CMS templates based on CQ5
    • Member of a software development team responsible for creating CMS system architecture using Adobe's Communique 5 platform including OSGI and Velocity-based solutions for customizable mailing.
    • Liaised with clients and content managers to create a coherent solution within the time schedule.
    • Successfully applied good software creation, test, release and maintenance practices acquired when working in large scale systems.
    • JEE 6, Adobe CQ5, JCR, Sling
  • Baroo SoftwareJun 2010 – Sept 2011

    Created a software product for a specialist provider of SEPA payment solutions for banks and corporations across Europe as a member of a team based in Poznan, Poland
    • Worked as a part of a UK-based development team, gained experience and practice in outsourcing.
    • Began work as a developer, promoted to a Team Lead role.
    • Participated in remote planning and task estimation sessions as a team leader of the Polish group.
    • Implemented Maven profile-based code to minimize code redundancy while still creating a client-specific output including different work flows.
    • Conducted interviews with technical developers, evaluated candidates and took part in employment decision-making.
    • Created a multi-tier transactional implementation for various payment file formats
    • Implemented security mechanisms to prevent XSS attacks.
    • JEE 5, Hibernate 3, Spring 3, Eclipse 3, Maven 2.
  • Team Manager, Comarch S.A.Oct 2008 – May 2010

    Development and management of development teams creating enterprise Java software for the banking sector.
    • Participated in the creation of the software requirements analysis and managed a team of 5 developers creating a multi-tier life insurance product. Scheduled and supervised the work in progress, liaised with the clients to ensure a smooth flow of information. Responsible for the quality of the end-product.
    • Redesigned, coded and supervised the software architecture that allowed for using the existing claims system in a new project by inheriting and extending core modules while removing performance bottleneck by implementing a distributable thin client solution.
    • Promoted to the position of the Project Manager when supervising three projects in maintenance phase. Reorganized the support flow, negotiated software release delivery with clients, motivated co-workers and reduced lead time and a growing queue of pending issues to meet the deadline set out in the contract.
    • JEE5, ComarchESB, Spring, GWT 1.4, Jboss 4, Oracle DB, Hibernate 3.
  • JEE Developer, Comarch S.A.May 2008 – Sept 2008

    Development of banking software solutions.
    • Implemented a non-life insurance solution for a bank.
    • Provided test-driven development and basic application servers configuration.
    • Promoted to Team Leader for a new life insurance project.
    • JEE 5, Tomcat 5, WASCE, Apache HTTP Server, Eclipse.
  • JEE Developer, Rodan Systems S.A.Mar 2006 – Apr 2008

    Began work as a last year student, continued after graduation.
    • Participated in the creation of Public Information Bulletin as a Junior Software Developer,.
    • Implemented documents management software for the Polish public service as a Software Developer,.
    • J2EE 1.4, Struts 1, JSP, Eclipse, XSLT, CVS.

Education

  • Master’s degree in Computer Science2006 - 2007

    Poznań University of Technology

    final grade: 5/5

  • Computer Science Engineer2002 - 2006

    Poznań University of Technology

    final grade: 4.5/5

Expertise

  • Java Software Development
  • Team management
  • Algorithms design
  • Multithreading

Experienced user

  • Enterprise Java
  • Spring
  • Hibernate
  • Oracle Coherence
  • Tomcat 5, 6
  • JBOSS AS 4, 7
  • Adobe CQ5
  • JSP 2
  • Oracle DB 11g

Dealt with in the past

  • Struts 1
  • EJB 3
  • jBPM 4
  • LaTeX
  • JCR
  • Apache Sling
  • JSF
  • Hudson
  • MySQL 5
  • JUnit 4
  • EasyMock 3
  • JasperReports
  • JBoss ESB
  • JBoss Drools 4
  • WASCE

Operating systems

  • Linux (everyday user)
  • Windows

Tools used

  • Eclipse 3, Intelij Idea
  • Maven
  • SVN, CVS, Git
  • Jira
  • Bugzilla

Contact info

  • Go ahead and contact me using contact form or the information on the profile page.
  • Website: www.robertnowak.pl

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