Nazim B.

Nazim B.

London, United Kingdom
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About Me

Nazim is a full-stack developer with more than 17 years of C# experience. He has developed highly scalable, resilient, and robust microservices. In addition to proven back-end experience, he developed single-page applications (SPA) using the Angular framework on the front-end. He has worked on Azure Cloud-based projects, where he's used Azure Durable Functions, Azure Service Bus, Azure Storage, and Azure Cosmos DB.

Frontend

Backend

Database

SQL Microsoft SQL Server Databases

DevOps

Azure DevOps Services

Other

Full-stack C .NET C#.NET Visual Studio .NET Core Serverless Chrome Extensions Web

Work history

Fuse by Allen & Overy
Senior Full-stack .NET Developer (Contractor)
2019 - 2020 (1 year)
Remote
  • Migrated the application implemented on Azure Data Factory to Azure Durable Functions which is a Serverless architecture.

  • Designed the application's central logging mechanism and fed it into Azure Application Insight.

  • Prepared build pipelines to create artifacts and to publish Nuget packages for the common libraries using Azure DevOps.

  • Integrated due diligence workflow with Orbis API to get company information like sector, rating, etc.

  • Managed to run Azure Functions as a Docker Container on the VM, because of the reason there was a data restriction and Azure Functions were not supported by Microsoft in that region.

  • Integrated Azure Functions with HiqhQ Collaborate Tool's REST API using OAuth2.0 authentication.

DockerGitLab CI/CD Azure DevOpsAzure Key VaultRESTful Development REST APIs Azure FunctionsStorage .NET CoreC#
Allen & Overy
Senior Full-stack .NET Developer (Contractor)
2018 - 2019 (1 year)
Remote
  • Used Microservices architecture and Rabbit MQ for messaging implemented integrations of multiple legal applications from scratch.

  • Automated workflows consuming REST API of the DMS tool that was newly bought.

  • Automated management of legal documents retention for the legislation.

  • Implemented web pages, using Angular SPA architecture, for the legal departments.

  • Provided REST APIs to third party companies through the Google Apigee tool for document processing, PDF generation, and content preparation.

  • Added features to legacy MVC app to communicate with microservices and APIs.

RabbitMQNServiceBus AngularTypescriptREST APIs RESTful Development MicroservicesLINQEntity Framework Core .NET CoreC#
HSBC
Senior .NET Developer (Contractor)
2017 - 2018 (1 year)
Remote
  • Prepared high level and technical design documents for the integrations of seven different HSBC global applications.

  • Implemented integrations of seven different HSBC global applications between Turkey, Hong Kong, United Kingdom, and the USA using IBM MQ. Integrations had Global Payments transactions of SWIFT, EFT, Tax, Custom and Invoice payments.

  • Designed a central database and request/response logging system on MS SQL 2014 for the integrations.

MoqNUnitIBM MQSOAPXSLTXMLREST APIs RESTful Development LINQC#.NETSQL
Intertech - Denizbank
Software Architectural Consultant
2014 - 2017 (3 years)
Remote
  • Migrated the core banking system of Denizbank to HTML5.

  • Designed and implemented the API to connect Oracle and MS SQL from ServiceBus.

  • Integrated credit decision and scoring system of Denizbank Turkey with Sberbank Russia using IBM MQ.

  • Helped to integrate Azerbaijan ASB Bank's new core banking system SWIFT and EFT payments with the Azerbaijan Central Bank.

HTML5NUnitInternet Explorer Oracle Service Bus (OSB) IBM MQJavaScriptModel View Controller (MVC) XSLTXMLCode ReviewTFSWindows Communication Framework (WCF) .NETC#SQL
Intertech - Denizbank
Software Team Leader
2011 - 2014 (3 years)
Remote
  • Redesigned and implemented a Java-based in-house legacy risk evaluation system (ScoreCard) using .Net framework that processed 700,000 credit applications received via SMS.

  • Implemented a credit decision application using .Net framework from scratch.

  • Managed and developed an infrastructure for the web performance load test of the entire integrated core banking system with 30 virtual servers and more than 10,000 virtual users.

jQueryHTMLCSSJavaScriptRhino MocksSQLOracle Service Bus (OSB) Web ServicesModel View Controller (MVC) Windows Communication Framework (WCF) .NETC#
Intertech - DenizBank
Software Developer
2005 - 2011 (6 years)
Remote
  • Maintained and tuned legacy Java-based applications, and improved performance.

  • Integrated credit bureau and intelligence systems with the Central Bank of Turkey.

  • Involved in the development of core modules of a new core banking system with .Net framework in DenizBank.

TFSSubversion (SVN) IISWindows ServicesWebJavaScriptASPX Jakarta Server Pages (JSP) HTMLCSSMicrosoft SQL Server Apache StrutsJava.NETC#
Vector AI
Senior Software Developer (Freelance, Startup)
Present (2025 years)
Remote
  • Contributed to a machine learning project for a startup company. Developed application to do text clustering, text extraction, title, and content identification of data that was coming from image OCR API using Python.

  • Developed REST API using Flask to liaise with React front-end developers.

  • Implemented utilities to test processes and wrote results back to the source image file. The result was drawn as a box with correct coordinates onto the image file like title, identified content, location, or document identity number.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) LinuxTrelloGithubGitlabDockerREST APIs FlaskPython
Benchmark Capital
Senior Full-stack .NET Developer (Contractor)
Present (2025 years)
Remote
  • Migrated a couple of applications to use OAuth 2.0 authentication mechanism.

  • Implemented batch user and company details update on the CRM module to be used by admin users.

  • Implemented microservices to populate Azure Cosmos DB from the legacy SQL Server for the changes done via the legacy system.

  • Implemented REST APIs to be used by the React front end.

  • Refactoring, performance improvements and maintenance on ASP.NET (MVC 5) application.

Azure Cosmos DB Azure Service BusStorage MicroservicesOAuth 2 RESTful Development REST APIs LINQEntity Framework Core .NET Core.NETC#

Showcase

Expense Commission Infrastructure
  • Developed a dynamic rule-based expense commission infrastructure.

  • Integrated with core banking modules, ATM, and internet banking.

  • Provided a user-friendly front-end for rule modification and addition.

Procurement Project
  • Designed and developed a serverless application to integrate with a SharePoint-like platform for a mega procurement project.

  • The application utilizes REST API for data retrieval, Azure Durable Functions for processing, and manages workflows on the platform.

  • The project involves data integration and workflow management within a large procurement context.

Machine Learning Project
  • Developed text clustering, extraction, title, and content identification pipelines using Python.

  • Created a REST API using Flask to facilitate communication with a React front-end team.

  • Responsible for the development of a machine learning project involving image OCR API data.

Coronavirus Case Tracker - Chrome Extension
  • This Chrome extension tracks coronavirus cases by selecting a country.

  • It provides information on death rates, total infections, recovered, deaths, actives, and today's cases.

  • The extension supports multiple languages and offers worldwide statistics.

News RSS Reader
  • Developed a public-facing web application for news and media content.

  • Supports four languages: English, Russian, Turkish, and Azerbaijani.

  • Consumes approximately 300 RSS feeds from 100 news sources.

Toptal React Academy
  • Toptal React Academy is an exclusive learning program for Toptal network members.

  • The program involves a 30-40 hour final project to build a React app from scratch.

  • The goal is to complete the project after a month of study.

Education

Education
Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Engineering
Bogazici University
2000 - 2005 (5 years)