I'm a Senior Software Engineer with 2+ years experience working in agile teams on large-scale microservice-based architectures, primarily in the public sector.
To date, I've worked professionally with Java, Node, Spring, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Apache, Nginx, GraphQL, Puppeteer, Jest, JUnit etc.
I have strong engineering foundations that enable me to design clean, well-tested software and am able to get up to speed with new technologies and domains quickly.
As a Learning & Development Lead in the Engineering Guild at Deloitte Digital, I'm passionate about helping people grow as engineers and mentoring junior colleagues, with a particular focus on self-led learning for engineers.
Prior to becoming a software engineer, I worked in Finance and Strategy in the telecoms sector for 7 years, and bring real-world business and organisational understanding to my work.
Deloitte Digital, October 2018 to now (promoted to Senior in August 2020)
Part of a high-functioning agile team delivering a large-scale web application in the public sector (~3m users to date). Day-to-day tasks include implementing clean solutions, performing value-add code reviews, technical analysis of business requirements, mentoring junior colleagues.
Key achievements:
- Responsible for a team of 3 junior/mid level developers
- Led a high profile integration with our third-party payment provider
- Improved developer productivity by setting up Skaffold and Minikube for local development
- Drove improvements into our microservice resilience by implementing a common retry mechanism across all services
- Implemented a maintenance page for our site
- Undertook 2 separate large-scale legacy code refactors
As Learning & Development Lead for the Engineering Guild at Deloitte Digital, I also coordinate community learning events, help engineers source the right learning resources and have implemented a new set of learning pathways for the Engineering Guild. This year I helped launch the Engineering Leadership Programme, a 12-month training course for Technical Leads, delivered in partnership with Makers Academy.
Technologies: Java, Spring, Javascript, Node, Kafka, ELK, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Jenkins, Nginx, Apache, Skaffold, Git
BT LTD, December 2015 to September 2017
Responsible for leading 3-6 month projects to analyse diverse business problems, provide recommendations to senior management and project manage solutions through to delivery.
O2 LTD, May 2013 to December 2015
Responsible for all financial operations in O2’s digital products (Media, Big Data, Machine to Machine), including financial analysis, business cases, month end accounting statements and annual budgets.
O2 LTD, Sep 2010 to May 2013
Europe-wide programme including a range of foundation roles across Finance (including an international assignment and secondment to Tesco Mobile), designed to accelerate development and support attainment of a professional accounting qualification.
Featuring articles on adventure cycling and software engineering, for example:
- How I finally learned regex, using spaced repetition
- Big Sur, big adventures
Technologies: JAM Stack using Hugo, Netlify and Git
https://game-of-life-elishka.herokuapp.com/
Visual representation of Conway's Game of Life
Technologies: Javascript, React
https://github.com/elishkaflint/loofah-graph-api
Small side project to build a useful learning tool, worked on sporadically by a small team from Deloitte Digital
Technologies: Java, React, Docker, GraphQL, MongoDB
October 2018
Built and demo-ed a winning product called "The Techdel Test" – inspired by the Bechdel Test – which rated films according to the extent to which they depicted women performing STEM jobs
Technologies: Ruby on Rails, React
September 2017 - November 2017
Cycled 2,347mi down the Pacific Coast of North America in 2 months
Makers Academy, 2018
16-week intensive course to learn programming fundamentals (OOP, TDD, Agile methodologies, pairing) alongside a daily EQ curriculum
Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, Javascript, React, PostgreSQL
University College London, 2006 - 2010
- First class honours with distinction in spoken French
- Included on the UCL Dean’s List 2010 for academic excellence
- Awarded the Eva Grunwald Prize for French & 2 SSEES Sessional Prizes for Czech
(last updated August 2020)