Experience

Koan

• New Zealand
• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Principal Engineer & Architect

  • May 2023 - Present



Bank of New Zealand

• New Zealand
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• • Nov 2021 - May 2023

  1. Designed OpenAPI and AsyncAPI specs.2. Designed a Single Table Data model for DynamoDB by identifying the access patterns early.3. Designed advanced retry patterns using AWS EventBridge/Step Functions to retry and exponential backoff failed requests to third party apis and Kafka brokers.4. Developed AWS infrastructure components using Serverless framework and good old CloudFormation5. Published Avro based events to Kafka6. Implemented the OpenAPI spec using AWS Lambda, Typescript, DynamoDB, AWS ALB7. Proactively self assessed the implementation against the bank’s CSAM security controls to ensure that the solution is CSAM compliant. Show less

• • Apr 2021 - Oct 2021

  1. Designed container namespaces and automated container deployments to AKS using Helm for a core banking application

• • Jun 2020 - Mar 2021

• • Feb 2016 - May 2020

• • Aug 2014 - Jan 2016



Department of Internal Affairs (NZ)

• New Zealand
• Government Relations Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Java Consultant

  • Sep 2012 - Nov 2013



B2BE

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Senior Integration Consultant

  • Jul 2011 - May 2012



Walmart

• San Francisco Bay Area

• Team Lead

  • Jan 2011 - Jun 2011



Hawaii Information Consortium

• Honolulu

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Dec 2008 - Dec 2010



AIG Hawaii

• Honolulu

• Solutions Designer / Implementation Consultant

  • Jun 2007 - Nov 2008



Tata Consultancy Services

• India
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Java Developer

  • Dec 2003 - Dec 2006