Brendan Burns Email & Phone Number

Brisbane, Australia

• Working for a global property reinsurer in a team of three developers, all working remotely. I perform the role of Tech Lead for the team.In this role I have implemented two greenfield applications and designed &.
• Built multiple APIs using ASP.NET Core (including Minimal API) / REST / SignalR
• Designed & built a queue-based reporting and pricing server, with rich client dashboard, using C# /.NET… Show more Working for a global property reinsurer in a team of three developers, all working remotely. I perform.
• Designed & built a queue-based reporting and pricing server, with rich client dashboard, using C# /.NET Framework /.NET 5 / WCF / SignalR / MSMQ
• Designed & built a web app for running long-running batch jobs, using C# / Python /.NET Framework / ASP.NET MVC / REST / Hangfire / JavaScript / Bootstrap / SignalR / SQL Server
• Designed & built a document management system in SQL Server, via C# / WCF web service

Melbourne

• TAL is Australia’s largest life insurance company, and as a development manager, my role was to manage the innovation process, taking innovation themes from customer insight and idea generation through to prototyping.
• Worked across tactical, strategic and disruptive innovation themes, generating a portfolio of new ideas for each theme, including researching and… Show more TAL is Australia’s largest life insurance company, and as a.
• Worked across tactical, strategic and disruptive innovation themes, generating a portfolio of new ideas for each theme, including researching and identifying external ideas in the market
• Ran cross-department workshops for idea-generation, pitched ideas to senior management and developed ideas into business cases
• Worked with in-house developers and external development partners in order to prototype ideas
• Managed projects on schedule and within budget, including managing external agencies Show less

Melbourne

• TAL Direct is the leading direct insurance provider in Australia. It operates the InsuranceLine brand and "white label" alliances, offering life insurance for businesses such as Virgin Money, NIB and IAG.As a senior.
• Implemented a range of new products on the customer-facing website… Show more TAL Direct is the leading direct insurance provider in Australia. It operates the InsuranceLine brand and "white label" alliances, offering.
• Implemented a range of new products on the customer-facing website and was a lead developer in the team that built a mobile site in Sitecore CMS, which increased the number of sales leads by 30%
• Redesigned the web lead capture subsystem from a batch-based to a message-based architecture using MSMQ/Web API, reducing the time to call from 5 minutes to less than 30 seconds
• Led the implementation of best practices, such as DevOps, automation, and TDD. This including lots of pairing and presenting at brown bag lunches and development forums
• Implemented new products/features in the sales/admin system, such as a queue-based batch-processing system that automatically processed lead files of 100k records

Brisbane

Short-term contract to implement a system for classifying and tracking scientific samples, with a tight deadline and a rapidly assembled team of 3 consultants. We utilised the Scrum Agile methodology to implement the most important system components first, empowering us to deliver a working product within 4 weeks.My role involved business analysis, story.

London, United Kingdom

BNP Paribas is one of the largest banks in the world, measured by total assets. As a strategic developer my role involved system architecture, business analysis, development and support for a range of Product Control and Financial Control / Middle Office applications.The overall system consisted of a number of SQL Server 2000 & 2008 databases, C# WPF GUI.

London, United Kingdom

PAI is a fund of hedge funds and one of the leading companies in the alternative investments arena. Momentus is PAI’s front office system, providing functionality for research and quantitative analysis, portfolio construction, investment management and reporting.As a senior developer on the Momentus team and as one of a team of four, I was responsible for.

London, United Kingdom

Osiris is a pricing, booking and risk management system for exotic interest rate derivatives. The system incorporates extensive use of distributed components and parallel processing, using a DataSynapse GridServer for complex pricing and risk sensitivity calculations and simulations.As a senior developer on the Osiris team, I was responsible for.

London, United Kingdom

Project Jupiter was the first project in the world to fully digitalise the newsroom environment. The system utilises a digital core of media servers to produce a tape-less production environment. This empowers editors and journalists to access, distribute and archive media from their desktop ingestion from satellite feed or tape.As a core developer on the.

London, United Kingdom

As a senior developer working in this rapidly growing telecommunications company (winner of the Deloitte and Touche Fast50 Award as one of the fastest growing companies in the UK and in the top 100 in Europe) I successfully developed critical applications that are currently in use throughout the world.