Infrastructure & DevSecOps Manager

• Feb 2020 - Present

Chief Engineer Global

• Jun 2018 - Nov 2019

The Maestrano (LSEAIM: MNO) cloud-based open platform, designed for banks and similar enterprises, connects data from the everyday applications your SME customers rely on and turns it into actionable insights to help them better manage their finances and operations.Senior role working closely with both the CTO and VP Engineering to ensure engineering standards, best practices and training are implemented across the company.Major Achievements:• Scaled and optimised a new platform delivered to 250,000 users of a major US bank.• Designed and oversaw the implementation of a real-time data pipeline integrated with the bank API (OFX) to ingest bank transaction feeds and reconcile them with other third-party APIs• Migrated our in-house container orchestration solution to ECS, leveraging AWS managed services, reducing undifferentiated heavy lifting and costs.• Reviewed our cloud footprint to improve performance efficiency and cost optimisation, achieving over 50% cost reduction and higher scalability.• Automated and standardised our cloud infrastructure using Terraform Show less

Lead Software Engineer - Enterprise

• Mar 2015 - Nov 2019

As Maestrano pivoted from direct SME to an enterprise while label model, I was responsible for leading the global development of all user-facing and backend products allowing Enterprise customers to use the Maestrano platform for go-to-market purposes.These customers included three of the big four advisory firms in AU and NZ, a top-four US bank, two major Australia based banks and a multinational value-add technology distributor.Major Achievement:• Led the global enterprise engineering team across 4 continents• Defined and implemented the product strategic roadmap in accordance with the Company’s strategy• Designed the Enterprise microservices architecture and framework to bring Maestrano offering to enterprise client on their private infrastructure (AWS, Azure, On-Prem)• Educated customers’ technical teams on how to implement their project using our platform• Implemented a multi-tenant marketplace platform for a major distributor, providing their reseller network with a self-service configurable online storefront. This required a deep integration with the back-office ERP platform. • Improved the delivery and deployment workflows to ensure best practices and engineering standards were followedMain technologies & tools:• Ruby On Rails, Angular, MongoDB, MySQL, ElasticSearch• AWS, Azure, Docker, Ansible, Terraform, CircleCI Show less

Analyst Programmer

• Jun 2010 - Mar 2015

ADICA and ANDIA are members of MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings Inc., one of Japan’s largest non-life insurance companies, with a worldwide network providing diversified insurance services. ADICA & ANDIA are the underwriters for Toyota Insurance and Lexus Insurance. Major achievements: • Developed a team of 6 software engineers to build and maintain an internal portfolio of applications (policy and claims management system, fleet management, rating engine, payment system ...) using Ruby on Rails and front-end frameworks such as Bootstrap and Ext JS. This included recruiting, training, providing implementation recommendations, planning and allocating work, reviewing code to ensure it meets the specifications and coding guidelines. • Earned the trust of key stakeholders (business managers, business analysts) to analyse business requirements, review and formulate technical specifications, implement and validate the deliverables • Consulted with internal system users to identify potential friction points and design solutions such as task automation and performance improvement • Led a major overhaul of all internal IT systems to support two insurers (ADICA & ANDIA) as part of an internal re-organisation while staying compliant with the APRA general insurance licence and the Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL) requirements. • Re-designed the application infrastructure to improve reliability, security, and performance using technologies such as Chef, VMware vSphere, HAProxy/keepalived, Nagios... • Coordinated efforts to introduce single sign-on authentication to all the applications. • Improved the development lifecycle and code quality by introducing new tools and process (agile concepts, code review, CI/CD) • Refactored and extracted pricing engine to a microservice to speed up premium calculations by 10x • Reduced end of month batch processing time from hours to minutes • Contributed to open-source: Chef cookbooks, Ruby & Ruby gems Show less

Software Developer

• Apr 2009 - Mar 2015

Part time job as a Ruby on Rails developer on a web 2.0 based product comparison and rating website. Since 2014, working on an unrelated Android application. • Finished the migration from PHP to Ruby on Rails • Introduced new development and deployment schemes • Developing new features and enhancing the website Part time job as a Ruby on Rails developer on a web 2.0 based product comparison and rating website. Since 2014, working on an unrelated Android application. • Finished the migration from PHP to Ruby on Rails • Introduced new development and deployment schemes • Developing new features and enhancing the website

Software Developer/Engineer

• Sep 2008 - Jan 2009

Maintained an online English dictionary (www.ldoceonline.com): • Implemented the new design and social features (widgets, social networks integration) • Responsible for the SEO and advertising integration Worked on the Free Online Dictionary Platform: • Designed a geographically distributed platform based on Java/Spring for free online dictio- naries • Participated in the design/configuration of the network and hardware architecture, as in the choice of regional partners in the USA, Asia and Europe (contracts negotiation) Show less

Vice President

• Feb 2007 - Feb 2008

Vice-President of the Network organization of the École Centrale Paris campus (1200 student members, annual budget of 80 000 €, 30 servers and 80 switches) : Technical supervisor, project and team leader and responsible for firms partnerships. Vice-President of the Network organization of the École Centrale Paris campus (1200 student members, annual budget of 80 000 €, 30 servers and 80 switches) : Technical supervisor, project and team leader and responsible for firms partnerships.