_config.yml

# Site settings
title: Rob Hinds
twitter_username: rob_hinds
name: Rob Hinds

# Build settings
markdown: kramdown

#User specific content
#Links that will appear in the navbar
primarylinks:
 - title: Blog
   url: http://automateddeveloper.blogspot.com/
 - title: GitHub
   url: https://github.com/robhinds
 - title: StackOverflow
   url: http://stackoverflow.com/users/258813/rhinds
 - title: DZone
   url: https://dzone.com/users/899489/rhinds.html
 - title: LinkedIn
   url: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/rob-hinds/21/361/3b1

#Any buzzword skills you want to include
skills:
 - Groovy
 - Spring MVC
 - Spring Boot
 - Gradle
 - Java
 - JPA
 - SQL
 - REST
 - Tech Architecture

#Blogfeed is optional - including this will add JS to call the feed and populate blog list
blogfeed: http://automateddeveloper.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

#Work experience is required
roles:
 - title: Senior Engineer
   start: 2016
   end: Ongoing
   employer: Emerald Street Ventures
   description: Emerald Street Ventures was established as an incubator vehicle for the development of a number of software and legal-tech projects, and a rapidly growing, London-based start-up using innovative technologies to revolutionise and change the software and legal-tech landscape. Working with a range of cutting edge technologies and techniques including Scala, Cassandra, CoreOS, a variety of Machine Learning techniques.
 - title: Senior Engineer
   start: 2012
   end: 2016
   employer: Covestor
   description: Covestor is an investment marketplace startup that was successfully acquired by Interactive Brokers in 2015. <br/> I am a senior engineer working closely with the CTO, working across the full-stack, I am involved in all aspects of the technology including the website and back-end services.
 - title: Associate Manager
   start: 2005
   end: 2012
   employer: Accenture
   description: A range of functional and technical roles, primarily working on client sites in Financial Services.

#Education is required
education:
 - level: Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)
   date: 2003
   subject: Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science
   school: University of Birmingham

#This section is optional (as is the image link below)
coursera:
   profileurl: https://www.coursera.org/user/i/c6362b4056f755a04bef6a791a62102b
   courses:
    - title: Functional Programming Principles in Scala
      link: https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun
      optionalimage: https://d1z850dzhxs7de.cloudfront.net/topics/progfun/small-icon.hover.png
      date: September 16, 2013
    - title: Algorithms Design and Analysis, Part 1
      link: https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun
      optionalimage: https://d1z850dzhxs7de.cloudfront.net/topics/algo/small-icon.hover.png
      date: April 28, 2014

#List of interesting Github repo/projects to include - optional
github:
 - robhinds/learning-neural-networks
 - robhinds/akka-http-rest-api-sample
 - robhinds/twitter-sentiment-analysis
 - robhinds/spring-reactor-twitter
 - robhinds/microservices
 - robhinds/spring-social-geeklist
 - robhinds/spring-social-stackoverflow
 - robhinds/food2vec
 - robhinds/SpringMongoIntegrationExample
 - robhinds/SpringNeo4JWebApp
 - robhinds/AndroidChuckQuiz
 - robhinds/AndroidRssReader

#Stackoverflow flair is optional
stackoverflow:
   profileurl: http://stackoverflow.com/users/258813/rhinds
   flairimageurl: http://stackoverflow.com/users/flair/258813.png

#Mobile apps section is optional
apps:
 - name: Chuck the Quiz
   platform: Android
   url: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tmm.android.chuck&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS50bW0uYW5kcm9pZC5jaHVjayJd
   description: A basic early Android app (open sourced)

#An additional info freetext section is optional at the bottom of the page - can be text or HTML
additionalinfo: |
   <strong>JVM</strong>: I am experienced in a variety of Java API’s and frameworks. I have recently worked with Spring 4, Spring Boot, JPA (Hibernate and EclipseLink) in addition to others.  In my current role Groovy is the primary language used - and I am familiar with many of the languages features and quirks (including writing <a target='_blank' href="https://dzone.com/articles/functional-programming-groovy">Functional Programming style groovy</a>). <br/><br/>
   <strong>Web Development</strong>: My server side web development experience has largely been based on the Spring MVC framework (although current role uses ColdFusion for server side web stack). I have also worked with some client side technology, having used jQuery, Bootstrap, LESS, SASS and have also experimented with other interesting technologies such as Backbone/Underscore/Require.<br/><br/>
   <strong>Development Control</strong>: I have a good knowledge of application life-cycle management and have worked with SVN, Git, Maven, Gradle, Sonar and Jenkins. I have experience with an array of testing tools and technologies.<br/><br/>
   I have also gained experience and knowledge of other technologies from several side projects and research that I have undertaken in my free time, including Android, a variety of social APIs (Twitter etc) and cloud platforms such as CloudFoundry/OpenShift/AppFog/Parse. <br/><br/>
   As part of Nerdability, I created, and am now primary contributor to, two Spring projects - <a target='_blank' href="https://github.com/robhinds/spring-social-geeklist">Spring-Social-Geeklist</a> and <a target='_blank' href="https://github.com/nerdability/spring-social-khan-academy">Spring-Social-Khan-Academy</a>, which provide core integration with those third-party APIs on top of the Spring Social framework. They are both listed as community projects: <a target='_blank' href="http://projects.spring.io/spring-social/">http://projects.spring.io/spring-social/</a>. <br/><br/>
   I write a blog covering technical and opinion articles that can be found here: <a target='_blank' href="http://automateddeveloper.blogspot.com/">automateddeveloper.blogspot.com</a> (I am also a <a target='_blank' href="https://dzone.com/users/899489/rhinds.html">DZone MVB</a>)