Modernisation and stabilisation of the software platform behind a range of appliance products. The work covered modernising .NET services, the installation and deployment flow, hardware and storage integration and automating build and release – with a focus on higher operational stability, easier maintenance and a more robust appliance setup.
Role: Software Developer, Solution Architect
The platform behind the appliance products had grown over many years: legacy .NET services, a heavy and manual installation and deployment flow and tight coupling to hardware and storage made maintenance, troubleshooting and new releases demanding and risky.
Software Developer, Solution Architect. I was responsible for or carried out the following:
Windows services, REST APIs and client applications were modernised to .NET 8/9/10 with consistent logging and error handling. The installation and deployment flow was rebuilt with WiX Toolset 6 and Burn, and the hardware, storage and RAID/JBOD integration was made robust with validation and clear user flows. Build, signing, SBOM and publishing were automated with Nuke Build and GitHub Actions.
Higher operational stability and lower memory usage, a more robust appliance setup and a build and release process that can be repeated without manual steps – and that is easier for the team to maintain.
Implementation and maintenance of a self-service portal where customers get an overview of their electricity and gas subscriptions – including a new payment integration and preparation for a large customer migration.
Implementation of a new self-service portal where customers get an overview of their subscriptions – with product content kept in sync from back-end systems.
Gaining an overview of an existing codebase in order to implement bug fixes and migrate from VB6 to a modern C# platform.