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form CE-03 · credentials & licences
Certificates earned, each with its issuer and credential.
Udemy
A foundational course on AWS: the core service families, the shared responsibility model, regions and availability zones, IAM, and how cloud pricing and billing actually work. Covered containerisation alongside it, which is the piece that carried over most directly into my own work — the microservices projects on this site are Docker-composed, and this is where that grounding came from.
verify credential →HackerRank
HackerRank’s software engineer certification, assessed end to end rather than by language: problem decomposition, data structures and algorithms under time pressure, and building a working solution against a specification. The broader companion to the Java certificate — that one tests the language, this one tests what you do with it.
verify credential →Amazon Web Services (AWS)
An AWS Educate module covering the compute side of the platform: EC2 instance types and sizing, the trade-off between provisioning a server and running code without one, and where managed compute fits against self-managed instances. Taken alongside the Cloud Practitioner material as the hands-on counterpart to it — the same services, approached from the console rather than from an exam objective.
verify credential →HackerRank
The advanced tier of HackerRank’s SQL certification: window functions, common table expressions, correlated subqueries, and the kind of multi-join aggregation that has to be reasoned about rather than pattern-matched. Machine-graded against a live database, so a query either returns the right rows or it does not.
verify credential →HackerRank
The intermediate tier, taken a month before the advanced one: joins across several tables, aggregation and grouping, subqueries, and set operations. Foundational work that paid off directly in the Oracle FLEXCUBE migration, where reading someone else’s schema quickly mattered more than writing new ones.
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HackerRank’s Java role certification: a timed, machine-graded assessment of the language itself — collections, generics, exception handling, and object-oriented design — rather than a course with a certificate at the end. Sat while working day to day in Spring Boot, so it doubled as a check that the fundamentals underneath the framework were still sharp.
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