Software Consultant

• Feb 2023 - Present

Senior Software Developer

• Jan 2022 - Feb 2023

Joined a recently formed team, with a mission to transform a well known property site into Australia’s prime property research destination.- made substantial headway in 2022 on laying foundational infrastructure to: - procure a multitude of different data sets of value to property research: - public property listings data from a multitude of online sources - school and urban planning zone data from various state government data portals - storing procured data in Google BigQuery - process and aggregate the data via a series of ETL pipelines, using internal tooling based on Apache Airflow framework, then - publish the distilled datasets to a Postgresql database, behind an internal GraphQL endpoint, to serve various frontend services.- Maintain and grow the operational capacity and efficiency of the team - achieved year-on-year improvements to our systems health, by ensuring timely bug fixes and critical system updates - participate in business hours oncall rotation; ensured our systems monitoring and alerting are effective, while mitigating alert fatigue - build, maintain and improve data engineering operations and pipelines to meet business demandsThe transformational work done by my team to date has helped to make the site the #3 property research site for the Australian property market

Software Developer

• Jan 2020 - Jan 2022

- maintaining ruby systems that manage our Customers' property listings- maintaining scala systems that are a core part of REA's listings publication pipeline- improving team's developer experience through better documentation, easier deployment of testing environments, and advocating for more learning opportunities. - preparing and presenting training modules at REA's internal scala workshop- presented at functional programming guild about my experience learning scala- mentoring and providing career advice to new recruits and colleagues

System Engineer

• Jan 2018 - Jan 2020

- Collaborating to deliver CoPilot platform to internal customers, using AWS EKS- Develop and maintain internal tools and services that enables our developers to build and run systems sustainably- Provide internal training and consultation on delivery, deployment best practices and internal tools

Highlights

• Feb 2013 - Jan 2020

- Planning, organising, delivering and presentating at numerous internal training workshops (AWS, Buildkite and Docker training, and internal tools workshops)- Further developing my ruby and python software dev skills while working in GDE and NASA teams- Conducting customer research through customer interviews as part of our efforts to improve how customers experience and use internal tools- REA Asia secondment in 2017 - working from the Kuala Lumpur office for 3 weeks, as an opportunity to learn more about our Asian lines of business, and to foster more collaboration and knowledge sharing between the international offices- Attended Splunk .conf2016 event in Florida, US- Co-presented at 2016 Melbourne SplunkConf on the topic of automating and running Splunk in AWS- 2015 - Migrated REA's central Splunk infrastructure from the Data Center to AWS; played a key role in re-designing and automating the deployment of the new 'Skynet' Splunk in AWS, and improved the configuration management of the new system, reducing toil for the team.

System Engineer - Global Infrastructure and Architecture

• Jan 2015 - Jan 2018

Site Reliability Engineer

• Feb 2013 - Jan 2015

Technical Specialist

• Jan 2011 - Feb 2013

Duties performed as part of NAB Wholesale Provisioning Team: - Design, maintenance and creation of SOE's for Wholesale Division's fleet of Windows and Linux servers. Duties performed as part of Midrange Engineering and Support: - Carry out ongoing operations support for UNIX and Linux based infrastructure and back-end products that support Web (both Internet and Intranet) and database based applications for the Asia Pacific region. - Provide after hours support to carry out critical change requests to IT infrastructure. Major Projects/Undertakings to date: - Participated in every quarterly DR tests for Wholesale/Retail Divisions to date. - Automated execution and collection of audit data from Unix server fleet for Wholesale and Retail Divisions (approximately 2000 servers in total). Achieved using a combination of Expect, bash scripting and public key-based authentication.

Systems Administrator

• Jul 2008 - Jan 2011

IT Support Officer

• 2005 - 2008