Barrie Loydall

Barrie Loydall is a Lead Web Application Architect with 20 years of experience in the field. His recent expertise includes working with microservices architecture, managing communication stack processing billions of events/messages annually, and overseeing email technical operations. He is skilled in Elixir/Erlang and AWS services such as RDS, SQS, SNS, Lambda, Redshift, S3, and more. Barrie has extensive experience with SQL databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Redshift, along with database administration, maintenance, and performance analysis.

In his prior roles, Barrie has handled data migration using custom-built applications and MS DTS/SSIS. He is proficient in ASP.Net, C#, Classic ASP, XML, XSLT, and version control systems like Git and Team Foundation. His expertise extends to web/database environment setup, web services, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, web standards, accessibility, SEO, and web analytics. Barrie has worked with enterprise search technologies like Autonomy and has integrated various 3rd party components for advertising, stats, search, and user authentication.

Highlighted projects in Barrie's career include being the Technical Lead for a publishing client necessitating a CMS for 20 websites, and working on a significant re-launch project for a high-traffic site at Abacus e-Media. He also played a crucial role in integrating Autonomy's enterprise search technology at Abacus e-Media. Barrie holds a Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Computer Science from the University of Portsmouth.

Throughout his career, Barrie has held key positions such as Senior Engineer at Change.org, Director of Engineering at OZY Media, and Lead Web Application Architect at OZY Media. He also served as a Senior Web Application Developer at Abacus e-Media and gained experience in IT support and team leadership roles at organizations like Portsmouth City Council and Perot Systems Europe.