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 & implemented many features & performance improvements across the system.• 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 the role of Tech Lead for the team.In this role I have implemented two greenfield applications and designed & implemented many features & performance improvements across the system.• 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 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• As part of a team of 3, implemented a greenfield financial analysis application in C# / .NET Framework / WPF / WCF / SQL Server / DevExpress• DevOps: designed & built a continuous delivery pipeline using TeamCity / Octopus Deploy / Powershell and monitoring of systems using Seq & RedGate SQL Monitor & Slack• Automated testing: made major increases in test coverage and introduced TDD for Greenfield code, using NUnit / RhinoMocks / NCrunch• Migrated the core pricing library from .NET Framework 4.8 to .NET Core• Currently building an internal web app using C#, .NET Core, Blazor, SQL 2022, DevExpressMade major performance improvements to the system, particularly in the SQL Server database which is 4TB in size. Became the team expert in SQL Server performance, achieving order of magnitude gains in key processes Show less

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, with an emphasis on customer-centricity, rapid iteration, and fast time to market using a “lean start-up” approach.• 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 development manager, my role was to manage the innovation process, taking innovation themes from customer insight and idea generation through to prototyping, with an emphasis on customer-centricity, rapid iteration, and fast time to market using a “lean start-up” approach.• 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 member of the development team, a large part of my role was to lead and implement change. This took the form of system architecture, new features & products and introducing new processes and tools.• 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 life insurance for businesses such as Virgin Money, NIB and IAG.As a senior member of the development team, a large part of my role was to lead and implement change. This took the form of system architecture, new features & products and introducing new processes and tools.• 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• Developed all code in a mature Agile environment, using TDD & pragmatic pair programming• Developed a web UI test framework for using Selenium, and mentored QA’s to write tests using itTech: C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, SQL Server, WCF, WPF, MSMQ, NUnit, RhinoMocks, Selenium, DevExpress, Sitecore, Javascript, REST, TeamCity, git Show less

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 breakdown, system architecture and software development. We built the system using C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server 2008, WCF, Linq2SQL and… Show more 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 breakdown, system architecture and software development. We built the system using C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server 2008, WCF, Linq2SQL and NUnit for TDD. Show less

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, MQ feed, and legacy MSAccess databases.

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 business analysis, system architecture, development and support. The system consisted of C# MVP Winforms and C# ASP.NET front ends,… Show more 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 business analysis, system architecture, development and support. The system consisted of C# MVP Winforms and C# ASP.NET front ends, C# .NET remoting mid-tier, SQL Server 2000 database, Sharepoint 2003 and Reporting Services 2000. Show less

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 reengineering the overnight pricing and risk system, migrating overnight risk reports to the GridServer framework and implementing a large… Show more 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 reengineering the overnight pricing and risk system, migrating overnight risk reports to the GridServer framework and implementing a large number of features, bug fixes and utilities. Show less

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 team I was involved at all stages of the project lifecycle, from requirement specification and design through to implementation… Show more 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 team I was involved at all stages of the project lifecycle, from requirement specification and design through to implementation, testing, bug fixing and performance improvements. Show less

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.