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I have been “on the bench” twice this year of 2025. I was a Principal Software Engineer at Solirius-Reply for 2 years and then that employment abruptly came to the end in June. I immediately started searching for a new role, open to both permanent or contract, because of awareness of job market. I had […]

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My name is Peter Pilgrim, Principal Engineer, Lead Developer and I am looking for next contract engagement immediately. My primary strength skills are Java software engineering with Kotlin server-side programming. The tech stack in my day-to-day is: Java 21, Spring Boot 3, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Azure, Angular, Kotlin, Scala, Gradle, Maven, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, MongoDB, […]

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Principal Technologist E6 And so that was 2022 Hello All This is the last episode of the year 2022. Merry Crimbo and Happy New Year 2023 Thank you all for watching and listening.

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Welcome to another edition of the Principal Tech. In this video cast, on YouTube, I discuss #IR35RepealScrapped(hashtag) I am purposely not writing a lot of text on this blog post. The idea is you go watch and/or listen, because I am experimenting with the audio-visual form of content production This is all about the future […]

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Welcome to another edition of the Principal Tech. In this video cast, on YouTube, I discuss #IR35RepealScrapped(hashtag) I am purposely not writing a lot of text on this blog post. The idea is you go watch and/or listen, because I am experimenting with the audio-visual form of content production This is all about the future […]

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Welcome to another edition of the Principal Tech. In this video cast, on YouTube, I discuss #IR35Repeal(hashtag) I am purposely not writing a lot of text on this blog post. The idea is you go watch and/or listen, because I am experimenting with the audio-visual form of content production On Friday 23rd September 2022, The […]

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I have a new show Principal Tech E1 – Is UK Contracting Worth It? I uploaded the first episode to YouTube and I will add more shows for the foreseeable future. I am the Principal Technologist. In the autumn 2021, I had many enquiries about this nature of work. Some people have been asking me […]

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Today, I uploaded to YouTube a long form video (00:25:27 duration). In this long-form video presentation, I discuss my personal choice of why I chose contracting over permanent opportunities in my career. I share my feelings and historic decisions of why I got into contracting, why I found it beneficial and why it can be […]

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This is my advertisment to find Small Business Exempt clients in 2021     If this is you, and your small business falls under the government criteria (2 of 3), and in the near future, if you are considering hiring a Java contractor developer specialist, then you find my details: My Linkedin is here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterpilgrim2000/ […]

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Season’s Greetings All My plan of action for 2021 is to: Go back to OUTSIDE IR35 contracting Off Payroll Worker tax change pending April 2021 is essentially a tax grab by the revenue Take advantage of the Small Company Exemption and help clients beat their bigger competition and disrupt their target markets. Because of the […]

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Hello all and Seasons Greeting This is video is part of my online course called “How to improve your Personal Performance in Java Work Technology (PPJWT)?”. My name is Peter Pilgrim, I created PPJWT in 2020. PPJWT is a commercial course, you can find it on Vimeo on Demand. This discussion lecture is the second […]

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I was umming and ahhing over this lecture for a while, since the subject is relevant to me now. I am an independent contractor and for 2020, I have had to suffer the consequence of not finding client who will afford OUTSIDE IR35 determination. It led me to really think deeply about the future of […]