Experience

Waddle, From Xero

• Australia
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Development Manager

  • Apr 2022 - Present

  Leading two teams with a total 11 engineers, 9 of whom directly report to me. See below for more details on the role.Team Leadership • Work closely with the Director of Waddle and your Lead Engineer to cultivate a fun, rewarding, agile and results-driven culture that lives and breathes our Waddle values • Engage, lead and develop a team of Engineering Leads and Engineers. This includes recruitment, career development plans, performance discussions, coaching and monitoring team general wellbeing.Role model exemplary leadership; supporting, mentoring and growing the next generation of engineering leaders at Waddle by managing engineers within the team. Engineering/Technical Leadership • Work closely with your Lead Engineers, Senior Engineers and Product Manager, to deliver quality software and services that support the product vision and technical roadmap. • Ensure teams meet their delivery deadlines and deploy high-quality soware to production. Identifying and resolving team, people, technological or organisational impediments. • Manage internal non-product related tasks and projects • Own processes and practices that enable the team to successfully develop, support andmaintain our solutions.

• Software Engineer

  • Feb 2018 - Apr 2022


UST Global
• India
• Information Technology and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Senior Software Developer

  • Oct 2017 - Feb 2018

Macquarie Group
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Senior Software Developer

  • Oct 2017 - Feb 2018

Travelling
• Vietnam
• Human Resources Services
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Traveler

  • Mar 2017 - Aug 2017


Tyro Payments

• Australia
• Financial Services
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Delivery Lead

  • Sep 2016 - Jan 2017

• Technical Lead

  • Sep 2015 - Sep 2016

• Software Engineer

  • Nov 2013 - Sep 2015

  Mainly worked on a new, highly complex banking product involving numerous microservices, each with multiple active instances communicating over REST and RabbitMQ. Employed agile methods through the principles and practices of eXtreme Programming, working in small teams and engaging in full-time pair programming. Currently leading a team consisting of one tester and six software engineers, myself included. The leadership roles involve facilitation of various agile ceremonies, frequent catch-ups with team members, new hire inductions, performance management, recruitment, helping manage growth (Tyro doubled the engineering team every 18 months). Key tech: Java, Spring, MySQL, JPA, Liquibase, Git, TDD, microservice architecture, REST, RabbitMQ



Gomeeki

• Australia
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Java Software Engineer

  • Jun 2013 - Oct 2013

  Developed web applications in Java and Ruby for both front-end and back-end. Individually responsible for Gomeeki's software development efforts towards enhancing a client's warehouse management system. • Established trust with clients by providing a great understanding of their needs • Successfully introduced Continuous Integration for both Java and Ruby environments Key tech: Java, Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, AWS EC2, RSpec, Nginx, Phusion Passenger, JBoss AS 7 Developed web applications in Java and Ruby for both front-end and back-end. Individually responsible for Gomeeki's software development efforts towards enhancing a client's warehouse management system. • Established trust with clients by providing a great understanding of their needs • Successfully introduced Continuous Integration for both Java and Ruby environments Key tech: Java, Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, AWS EC2, RSpec, Nginx, Phusion Passenger, JBoss AS 7



Avanza Bank

• Sweden
• Financial Services
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Software developer

  • Nov 2010 - Jan 2013

  Developed solutions for both front-end and back-end for accounts, money transfers and pensioning investments. Received training and functioned as a Scrum Master in addition to the development responsibilities and mentored new team members. Played a key role in the design and implementation of an entirely new bank and insurance website based on distributed cloud services. • Created and hosted pair programming workshops for 35 developers • Took initiatives that made the team gel and continuously improve its agile ways of working • Introduced Scrum to a process-sceptical team and successfully turned them into enthusiasts • Held a workshop on user stories and acceptance criteria for 20 attendants, which lead to significant improvements in all development teams Key tech: Java, JQuery, Spring, JMS, Tomcat, Resin, MongoDB, GigaSpaces, Oracle, TDD, DDD



Tilgin

• Sweden
• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software developer

  • Dec 2009 - Nov 2010

  Development for a configuration system used by telecommunication operators to remotely manage customer premises equipment, such as gateways and set-top boxes. Achievements• Enhanced the continuous integration by automating nightly builds and integration testsKey technologies: Java, Javascript, MySQL, Hibernate, Spring MVC, JUnit, Apache Tiles, Apache Axis, SOAP

• Master Thesis Developer

  • Jun 2009 - Nov 2009

  Completed a master’s thesis which involved investigation of possible technologies that would enable end users to remotely access devices in the home through a portal provided by their telco operator. Implemented a prototype of the back-end for a web based portal.Achievements• Provided critical results that drove company decisions regarding remote accessKey technologies: Java, Bash, MySQL, Spring Framework, JUnit, SOAP

• Test Development Engineer

  • Jun 2008 - Jun 2009

  Lead developer on a test framework used for managing test suites and running automated tests for in-house developed home gateways (ie routers). Wrote new integration test cases and automated tests.Achievements• Significantly streamlined the test process by automating all smoke test cases for gateways• Delivered a powerful test framework that bridged the gap between test specifications and automated test suitesKey technologies: Ruby on Rails, Bash, LaTeX, MySQL, Test::Unit, Selenium, Ajax, SOAP