Lead Consultant / Architect at ThoughtWorks
Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom
- Current
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- Lead Consultant / Architect at ThoughtWorks
- Past
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- Contractor at Caplin Systems
- Web Application Architect at The Financial Times
- Senior Consultant / Architect at ThoughtWorks Ltd
- Research Leader / Architect at 2020me Ltd
- Middleware Architect / Developer at Chase Manhattan Bank
- Front End / Middleware Developer at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson
- Architecture Developer at Nomura Research Institute
- Entrepreneur / Researcher at Psilog Ltd
- Architecture Developer at Nomura Research Institute
- Consultant at ICL
- Researcher / Developer at British Telecommunications
- Researcher at EASAMS Ltd.
- Education
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- Imperial College London
- University College, London
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Duncan Cragg’s Summary
I have over twenty years' industry experience, spanning a wide range of technologies and trends.
My current main project is the "REST Observer Pattern", being expanded in the "REST Dialogues" series on my blog.
Duncan Cragg’s Specialties:
As well as Web technologies, REST and Web/Mobile 2.0, I'm interested in declarative, asynchronous and distributed architectures, including rule-, data- and event-driven systems.
Duncan Cragg’s Experience
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Lead Consultant / Architect
ThoughtWorks
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2009 — Present (4 months)
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Contractor
Caplin Systems
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
May 2009 — August 2009 (4 months)
Clambering out of a financial hole left by my attempt to start up a start-up.
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Web Application Architect
The Financial Times
(Public Company; PSON; Newspapers industry)
July 2007 — November 2008 (1 year 5 months)
Web 2.0 and REST-based projects. Scrum.
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Senior Consultant / Architect
ThoughtWorks Ltd
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2002 — July 2007 (5 years 4 months)
Agile Software Consultancy: all stages of lifecycle from first contact to rollout. All technologies from back-end Java to front-end Web 2.0.
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Research Leader / Architect
2020me Ltd
(Computer Software industry)
July 2000 — December 2001 (1 year 6 months)
Advanced fuzzy logic query and matching engine for virtual marketplace application matching customers with products. 'Dot-com'.
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Middleware Architect / Developer
Chase Manhattan Bank
(Public Company; CMB; Banking industry)
September 1998 — July 2000 (1 year 11 months)
FX pricing, booking and trading. Integration of multiple user-facing and back-end systems.
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Front End / Middleware Developer
Dresdner Kleinwort Benson
(Public Company; DKIB; Investment Banking industry)
January 1998 — July 1998 (7 months)
Basket/Portfolio Equities Trading
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Architecture Developer
Nomura Research Institute
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 1997 — January 1998 (5 months)
HOODINI project (see below) central object database ObjectStore cache of the main Sybase DB.
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Entrepreneur / Researcher
Psilog Ltd
(Internet industry)
August 1996 — August 1997 (1 year 1 month)
Psilog was my own 'pre-dot-com': exploring various technologies with a view to commercialising them in the Internet boom.
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Architecture Developer
Nomura Research Institute
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 1995 — August 1996 (1 year 1 month)
Middle Office HOODINI Project, Notification server, Orbix libs.
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Consultant
ICL
(Public Company; ICL; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1995 — April 1995 (4 months)
CORBA team writing both software and CORBA specs for the OMG.
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Researcher / Developer
British Telecommunications
(Public Company; BT.A; Telecommunications industry)
October 1990 — December 1994 (4 years 3 months)
Hypertext, graphical knowledge management system. Graphical, Lisp-based SDH Network Management system, with a Network Designer application; asynchronous object distribution mechanism. RAD and prototyping techniques; animation of high-level specifications.
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Researcher
EASAMS Ltd.
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 1989 — October 1990 (1 year 1 month)
Neural Networks; Rule Compiler.
Duncan Cragg’s Education
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Imperial College London
MSc , Foundations of Advanced IT , 1988 — 1989
Specialised in Logic subjects
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University College, London
BSc. , Electronic Engineering and Comp. Sci. , September 1983 — July 1986
