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Brisbane City, Qld, Au

Melbourne, Au

Building a high performance engineering team in support of a company that is inventing the new way to funeral with an 90+ NPS score.

Bowen Hills, Queensland, Au

Led Tappr through the completion of version 2 of its platform, including the delicate exercise of defining security policies and operational procedures nimble to support our needs while handling the stringent requirements of a major Australian retail bank that is now offering Tappr’s solution as a white label to its own merchants.

El Segundo, Us

Efficiently delivering software that matters:- Enabled a fast delivery mechanism (Continuous Delivery), to ensure features would (safely) be deployed in production within days of completion, maximising ROI and shortening customer feedback cycle.- More than tripled development throughput through SDLC changes (agile/kaban)- Overseeing product management including prioritisation and processes, ensuring efforts areexpanded efficiently on projects that actually matter (including A/B testing)- Lead architect, and responsible for the 24/7 smooth operations and security of our (cloud) servers and infrastructure

Vienna, Vienna, At

Product & project management, Technical compliance, Fraud

Vienna, Vienna, At

1. Led technical compliance and license application effort for the French market:- designing/ developing new architecture; setting up a new data-centre; code customization; extensive documentation review/ compliance with tight time-frame.2. Product manager for high profile customer security project: defined/specified the project for customer ease of use, negotiated with hardware vendors/ logistics company, coordinated graphics designers/ development teams.3. Technical coordinator for a partner integration project. Implemented data collection tool with novel/ scalable architecture, able to analyze previously prohibitive amounts of data and display intuitive results4. Project architect: wrote specifications, managed cross-functional special-purpose projects and oversaw off-site development. Coordinator for multiple teams throughout the company.5. High-level risk/security analyzes

Waterloo, Ontario, Ca

* Developed fault-tolerant algorithms for massively parallel computing (C++)* Invited talks at Google, Stanford University, Intel Labs.

Ithaca, Ny, Us

* Analysed and proved that the commonly accepted gossip-based membership algorithm was dysfunctional and proposed a simple, novel, proven correct class of distributed algorithms* Developed a secure (intrusion tolerant) membership and communication protocol* Developed simulators to study the effects of churn and failures on the scalability of gossip-based membership algorithms* Gave tutorials for the "Introduction of Programming" (Java) and "Data Structures and Functional Programming" (SML) classes* Tutored and evaluated projects for the Software Engineering class

Phd, Computer Science

Master Of Science, Engineering