Senior Devops Manager

• Mar 2023 - Present

Humanforce acquired Earnd in order to provide their customers with daily earned wage access. I joined the Humanforce team with the objective of enhancing, improving and simplifying their infrastructure with latest DevOps methodologies. Humanforce acquired Earnd in order to provide their customers with daily earned wage access. I joined the Humanforce team with the objective of enhancing, improving and simplifying their infrastructure with latest DevOps methodologies.

Lead Architect, DevOps Manager

• Jul 2020 - Mar 2023

Wagestream AU is an Earned Wage Access solution part of Wagestream international. Wagestream objective is to allow people access to any salary they have rightfully earned instead of waiting to their next (end of month) payment, thus preventing them from getting into expensive payday style loans. In Wagestream AU, I act as Enterprise Architect, Cloud Architect and DevOps Manager coordinating work across UK, AU, Russia and US. As in any startup I have to change hats every day also working as Platform Designer, Platform Manager, Engineer, Security Architect and more. Every day is a new challenge. Show less

Enterprise Architect

• Jan 2020 - Jul 2020

After successfully developing the Volt Bank AWS Platform MVP, I was invited to join the Enterprise Architecture team to formalise the platform technology, evaluate other products and help the IT teams. Key technologiesKubernetes, Kafka, Knowesis Sift, Azure.Highlights- Formally introduce new technologies to the Volt Bank ecosystem including Kafka, Kubernetes and many others.- Formal documentation of the new platform architecture to present to APRA.- Evaluated state of current system developments, developed a scoring system to assess the status of the projects.- Help defining the IT principles and guidelines.- Part of the Architecture Design Authority. Show less

Cloud Architect

• Aug 2019 - Jul 2020

Volt Bank is the first bank receiving an Australian banking license in over 100 years. It aims to become a pure digital bank offering a full online experience to their customers.Key technologiesAWS, Azure, Azure DevOps, GitLab, Kubernetes, Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, Service Mesh (Istio), Jaeger, Helm.Highlights- Designed the new cloud based banking platform to power the Volt Bank systems. The platform was fully compliant with all the AWS Well Architected Framework (validated by AWS) and run at a fraction of the cost of the current bank platform even before cost optimisations.- Directed the team building the cloud architecture, the delivery objectives were met on time while still running under budget.- Introduced a new development process that puts documentation and design first and upfront while reducing development time.- Introduced new technologies to the bank covering development tools, monitoring tools, and infrastructure management.- Introduced new concepts to the bank like cluster management, infrastructure as code and repeatable (cookie-cutter) environments.- Evaluated and suggested improvements to the DevOps and Development procedures. Show less

DEVOPS Manager

• Jul 2015 - Jul 2019

Rozetta Institute (previously CMCRC, http://www.cmcrc.com) is a lead research organisation. Its objectives is the development of cutting edge research tools for data analytics applied to financial markets, health, energy markets and digital currencies. After helping Lorica Health, I returned to CMCRC in July 2014 as an architect to design the new cluster for analytics jobs big data processing. Later I assumed the role of DevOps manager with the objective of moving all the systems to work in AWS and get the infrastructure budget under control. Key technologies Python, PostgreSQL, Docker, Swarm, Mesos, ECS, EKS, Kubernetes, Cloudformation, Infrastructure as Code, AWS (RDS, ECS, EC2, VPC, IAM, Route53, etc), Atlassian Stack(Jira, Bamboo, Bitbucket), Agile Scrum/Kanban, Prometheus monitoring. Highlights - Designed a cluster platform powering the MQDashboard analytics. The cluster is highly scalable reaching a maximum size (due to budget constraints) of 6000 CPUs and 24TB RAM processing 12 million jobs per month. - Migrated all the in-house hosted servers to AWS with full Infrastructure as Code approach. - Migrated all services to use clusters, containers and microservices for redundancy, self healing and high availability. - Transformed all infrastructure into code using Cloudformation. Standardised and transformed all CI/CD pipeline into code using a DSL based on Groovy. - Responsible of security using IAM roles. - Responsible of all the VPC and networking architecture. - Built pipeline based on Jira, Bitbucket and Bamboo. - Use of Agile methodologies for the length of the project. - Responsible for maintaining the budget for the AWS infrastructure. Multiple cost optimisations were applied including the use of spot instances, spot fleets, instance reservation and glacier storage. - Technical engagement of HMS, a US based health insurance (http://www.hms.com). Designed a research environment that complies with the high security requirements of the health data. Show less

Lead Software Engineer

• 2009 - Jul 2015

Lorica Health is a CMCRC company started as a research project in 2009 to build a fraud detection system for health insurance industry using data mining. Joined as a founding member, I was involved in every product design and development since the beginning. Key technologies Java, PostgreSQL, JBoss/Wildfly, Jenkins. Highlights - Designed & developed HIBIS - Health Insurance Fraud detection system, which processes $5B of claims per year & used by 93% of Australian private health funds. The company is valued at $50 million. - Led & managed a team of full-stack developers to deliver all the products at Lorica Health, particularly optimizing for performance, usability and systems reliability. - Designed the systems backend with focus on speed and reliability. The core system is still in use with almost no changes 8 years later and processes data almost daily. - Designed a full CI/CD procedure including Dev, QA, Staging and Production environments. - Engaged with senior management team, CEO and other cross functional teams to create short-term and long-term technical strategies. Show less

Software Engineer

• Jan 2008 - 2009

Programmer. Refactoring a CMCRC system for stock market analytics using C++. Programmer. Refactoring a CMCRC system for stock market analytics using C++.

Lead Programmer

• Jun 2002 - Feb 2007