Daniel Dyer

Current

Independent Software Developer/Consultant at www.dandyer.co.uk

Past

Software Development Contractor at Assertis Ltd.
Java Developer at Chaucer Digital
Application Developer at Prevx Ltd.

Senior Software Engineer at Empathy Software Ltd.
Software Engineer at Business Integration Services Ltd.

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Education

The University of Western Australia
The University of Kent

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Industry

Computer Software

Daniel Dyer’s Summary

I am a senior software developer with a background in online and mobile gaming (poker, casino and spread-betting), network security, CRM, and e-commerce. I am committed to the development of quality software via pragmatic, lightweight development practices.

I have extensive knowledge and experience of Java (desktop, enterprise and mobile) as well as experience developing software in several other programming languages including Haskell, C and PHP. In addition, I have written, or contributed to, several open source software projects.

Daniel Dyer’s Specialties:

Java, JavaScript, Haskell, C, PHP, SQL, HTML/CSS.

Linux, OS X, Solaris, Windows.

Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server.

Concurrency, graphical user interfaces, profiling/optimisation, unit testing, continuous integration, evolutionary computation, artificial intelligence, functional programming.

Daniel Dyer’s Experience

Independent Software Developer/Consultant

www.dandyer.co.uk

(Computer Software industry)

January 2009 — Present (11 months)

Software development contracting and consulting.
Software Development Contractor

Assertis Ltd.

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

February 2009 — October 2009 (9 months)

Java/PHP/XSLT development for a rail travel e-commerce project.
Java Developer

Chaucer Digital

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

January 2005 — May 2008 (3 years 5 months)

Architecture and development of bespoke online and mobile gaming systems (casino, poker and spread betting). Java (EJB, JSP, JMS, JBoss, Glassfish, Spring, Hibernate, Swing, JavaME) and C on Solaris/Oracle and Windows/SQL Server platforms.
Application Developer

Prevx Ltd.

(Privately Held; Computer & Network Security industry)

September 2003 — February 2004 (6 months)

Java and C++ development for network intrusion prevention products on Windows, Linux and Solaris.
Senior Software Engineer

Empathy Software Ltd.

(Computer Software industry)

June 2002 — September 2003 (1 year 4 months)

Design and development of a Java-based CRM platform using JBoss, EJB, JMS, JSP, Struts and Swing.
Software Engineer

Business Integration Services Ltd.

(Computer Software industry)

August 2000 — May 2002 (1 year 10 months)

Developed a fault management system (Java, Swing, CORBA, Microsoft SQL Server) for a major UK utility company and built e-commerce systems (Java, JSP, Struts, Oracle) for a multi-national ferry company.

Daniel Dyer’s Education

The University of Western Australia

MCompSc , Computer Science , 2004 — 2005

Studied artifical intelligence, neural networks and mobile & wireless computing. Researched "Strategy Evolution and Opponent Modelling in the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma" for my thesis and co-authored a book chapter based on this research.

Part-time teaching assistant in the School of Computer Science & Software Engineering. Taught Java programming and OO design with UML.

Activities and Societies:

UWA Soccer Club
The University of Kent

BSc(Hons) - 1st Class , Computer Science , 1997 — 2000

Practical projects involved writing software in Java, Prolog, Miranda, Occam and 68000 assembler.