Nick Horan - Founder & Lead Engineer

Delivering Platform Health Observability, BBC, June 2021 - February 2022

• The BBC are in the process of modernising their portfolio of digital products, known as Web Core
• Solent Cloud Systems were engaged to design, build and deliver an obersvability stack, to give their DevX team important insights into the health of their platform infrastructure
• SCS have delivered a customisable solution, deployed in AWS and centred around a time-series database with Grafana as the front-end
• The BBC now have a suite of platform health dashboards built around a set of internal Service Level Objectives, with appropriate alerting in place

Tech Stack

• AWS Lambda, CDK, TypeScript, SNS/SQS, RDS, InfluxDB, Grafana

Pharmacy Management System, Elephant Healthcare

• Design, build and delivery of a Pharmacy Management System (part of the Elephant Healthcare OS)
• Stock management, tracking, dispensing, reordering alerts and fraud prevention features

Tech Stack

• Next.js/React, Node.js, MongoDB, Elastic Stack

COVID-19 Response Platform, Elephant Healthcare

• Design, build and delivery of Clinic Connect, an advanced COVID-19 reporting platform
• The first near-real-time epidemic monitoring and reporting system used in Kenya

Tech Stack

• Next.js/React, Node.js, SQS, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL

Career Managment Platform, delivering smart features for the modern job seeker, Workray, Total Jobs Group (StepStone UK)

• Design, build and delivery of an automated email classification service (job applications, interviews, rejections, feedback)
• Delivering a Named Entity Recognition (NER) service based on AWS Comprehend (machine learning platform) and trained with tens of thousands of data points

Tech Stack

• AWS, ECS, Terraform, CloudWatch, S3, SNS/SQS, Lambda, Comprehend (ML), MongoDB, DynamoDB, Elastic Stack, Google Pub/Sub

Smart Vacancy Search Platform, Jobsite (StepStone UK)

• Complete rebuild of Jobsite's vacancy search platform
• Microservices architecture
• Lucene-based search engine technology
• Advanced features such as dictionary-based semantic search extensions

Tech Stack

• Node.js, Apache Solr, Apache ZooKeeper, Elastic Stack, Docker, Oracle, Perl

Security Services Product, ROK Global (ROKiT Group)

• Delivery of key components of the mobile device-based intelligence gathering system
• Built for global security services
• Successfully delivered field trials with Texas Department of Public Safety and other agencies

Mobile Streaming TV Service, ROK Global

• Design, build and delivery of ROK’s live streaming and on-demand mobile TV platform
• Platform capable of streaming video over pre-3G networks and above

Mobile TV Gambling Platform (POC), ROK Global

• Design and build of APIs to deliver real-time betting odds and to facilitate creation and settlement of bets
• Working prototype built as a proof of concept

Building a Tier-1 Grid Computing Centre for CERN's Large Hadron Collider, CCLRC (now STFC)

• Delivered key networking infrastructure for the Grid Computing Centre
• Firewall and DNS configuration
• Delivery of platform/network health monitoring solution

Live and Replay Video Streaming Platform, CCLRC (now STFC)

• Platform built from open-source software components and customised hardware
• Designed to receive satellite broadcast signals direct from the European Space Agency (ESA)