Alan Phillips

Backend Engineer

https://talent.gravityer.com/alan-phillips

London based Software Developer

London, England, United Kingdom

Key Strengths

Extensive personal project experience in Scala, demonstrating strong foundational knowledge.
Proficiency in Akka (Akka-Http, Akka Cluster, Akka Persistence) for building distributed and reactive systems.
Experience with functional programming paradigms using Cats-Effect and Http4s.
Familiarity with Kafka and Cassandra for messaging and data persistence in microservices architectures.
Demonstrated ability to work with data processing frameworks like Spark.

Cultural & Operational Fit

Cultural Fit Analysis

The candidate's projects are almost exclusively focused on Scala and related ecosystem technologies. While this indicates deep specialization, it suggests a potentially narrow breadth of experience in other common backend technologies (e.g., Java, Python, Go, SQL databases, cloud platforms). This might impact cultural fit in environments requiring diverse technology stacks or rapid adaptation to new languages/frameworks. All projects are personal, which limits insight into team collaboration or professional project management experience.

Soft Skills & Operational Fit

Insufficient data to assess soft skills or operational fit. No psychometric test results or interview feedback provided.

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Projects

AccountServiceTaglessFinal

January 29, 2019 – February 1, 2019

Http4s Web Server with Scala, Cats-Effect, Circe

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AccountServiceIO

January 17, 2019 – November 14, 2019

Http4s Web Server, Kafka FS2 Client with Scala, Cats-Effect, FS2, Circe

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http4sclientserver

July 20, 2018 – July 24, 2018

http4sclientserver: Scala, Http4s, Cats-Effect, Circe for Json, SBT multi-project

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MovieRatingsSpark

February 5, 2018 – February 5, 2018

Using the movie lens open data set (ml-1m.zip) from http://files.grouplens.org/datasets/movielens/ml-1m.zip Calculate: The max, min and avg rating for each movie Each user's top 3 movies based on the user's rating

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DataStructuresInScala

July 28, 2017 – August 8, 2017

DataStructuresInScala — GitHub repository

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ShortQuestions

July 12, 2017 – February 6, 2018

Some Scala exercises

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ChatUserService

May 14, 2017 – February 1, 2018

Chat User Rest Service. Provides user management functionality for users of Chat application. Uses Akka-Http toolkit and Circe to provide Rest Service functionality.

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ChatCluster

May 4, 2017 – November 1, 2017

Chat Service backend on Akka Cluster and Persistence with Kafka/Cassandra. Each conversation is a persistent entity.

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EventSourcingCluster

March 9, 2017 – April 11, 2017

Horizontally scaled out use of Akka Cluster Sharding with Cassandra Cluster configured for persistence. Messages are consumed from multi-node Kafka cluster and persisted to Cassandra using akka-persistence

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akka-http-microservice-blueprint

May 19, 2016 – September 26, 2016

Microservice blueprint using Akka-Http, Circe JSON, Cassandra, Specs2

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Key Strengths

Extensive personal project experience in Scala, demonstrating strong foundational knowledge.
Proficiency in Akka (Akka-Http, Akka Cluster, Akka Persistence) for building distributed and reactive systems.
Experience with functional programming paradigms using Cats-Effect and Http4s.
Familiarity with Kafka and Cassandra for messaging and data persistence in microservices architectures.
Demonstrated ability to work with data processing frameworks like Spark.

Cultural & Operational Fit

Cultural Fit Analysis

Soft Skills & Operational Fit

Insufficient data to assess soft skills or operational fit. No psychometric test results or interview feedback provided.

Alan Phillips

Key Strengths

Cultural & Operational Fit

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Key Strengths

Cultural & Operational Fit