Gavin Johnson

Lead Services Architect,  HSBC Digital

August 2016 —  Present   a year

Leading a team of Architects to deliver a major API Program

• Owner of the API standards for HSBC Digital Services
• Design new services to deploy on a globally distributed API Platform
• Develop patterns to govern integration with legacy systems

Senior Solutions Architect,  William Hill

October 2014 —  July 2016   2 years

Designed solutions for the Sportsbook website and shared components on the core platform.

• Designed and led delivery of applications to support Registration, Login and Account.
• Wrote API specifications for suppliers to deliver a sports results feed.
• Technology Lead on the Betslip project, an e-commerce style shopping cart.
• Strategic involvement to transform an API monolith into Microservices.

Technical Architect,  William Hill

July 2011 —  September 2014   3 years

As Architect on the William Hill API project (re-branded as Labs) specified the API contracts.

• Reduced integration costs to the business through the delivery of new APIs.
• Introduced new API security techniques based on SSL and X.509 certificates.

Technical Architect,  BBC News

February 2009 —  July 2011   2 years

Led a development team on the delivery of geo-spatial web services to the bbc.co.uk infrastructure.

• Provided detailed software designs for Java-based web APIs offering location services.
• Overcame a complex system integration problem involving TV graphics and online distribution.
• Produced the technical and contractual requirements for a third party supplier of the Travel site.

Technical Lead,  BBC Future Media and Technology

August 2008 —  February 2009   6 months

Technology Lead for the BBC Local project involving a migration of web content to a new CPS.

• Defined system requirements for the engineering team on the new CPS
• Wrote software to transition legacy content from various origination systems

Team Leader Wales,  BBC Future Media and Technology

October 2001 —  August 2008   7 years

A member of the BBC Wales Online management team and lead representative for FM&T in BBC Wales.

• Line-management of a multi-disciplinary team
• Delivery of high profile brands such as Doctor Who
• Developed an in-house Content Management System that ran successfully for over ten years
• Introduced video streaming kit for the play-out of broadcast content to bbc.co.uk

Development Team Leader,  BBC Online Education

May 2000 —  October 2001   a year

Online Engineer,  BBC Online Operations

April 1998 —  May 2000   2 years

Database developer,  Emap Online

June 1997 —  April 1998   10 months

Teacher,  Inner London Education Authority

September 1996 —  June 1997   9 months

Information officer,  National Health Service

January 1994 —  September 1996   3 years

1993  —  1996   3 years

City University

• MSc, Social Research Methods and Statistics (p/t)

1986  —  1987   9 months

Goldsmiths College

• Postgraduate Certificate in Education

1981  —  1984   3 years

Kingston Polytechnic

• BA Hons, Fine Art

1973  —  1981   8 years

Moseley Grammar School

Enterprise and Solutions Architecture, British Computer Society

Awarded on: Oct 01, 2013

Certified Practitioner

Java Development, BBC

Awarded on: Mar 01, 2010

Scrum Master and Estimation Class, Skillsmatter

Awarded on: Jan 01, 2009

Certified Practitioner

Test Driven Development, Skillsmatter

Awarded on: Nov 01, 2008

Advanced Networks, BBC Engineering

Awarded on: Feb 01, 2005

Unified Modelling Language, Learning Tree

Awarded on: Apr 01, 2002

Identity Management , A Python exploration of password-less login based on Launchkey

Published on: Jul 01, 2016

API design , A PHP demonstration of using Hypermedia in API design

Published on: Oct 01, 2015

Geek blogs , Various blogs on function(arg)

Published on: Nov 01, 2011