Bryan Wong Email & Phone Number

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Backend Engineer building platforms to build fast and reliable pages

→ Designed and built APIs enabling the execution and reporting of batch transfers and future dated post-funded conversions→ Led audit and rerouting of critical balance queries to sources of truth resulting in lowered risk of stale balance data and incidents→ Designed and built groundwork of report version management which allows financial reports to be versioned and introduce breaking changes→ Recognised for consistent high performance and raising the bar on documentation/process

Australia’s fastest growing fintech unicorn valued at $5.5bill at the time of joining.On the Core Banking team uplifting low-latency backend microservices processing tens of thousands of API calls per day. It was a fast paced environment where I learned a lot.→ Main engineer co-leading year-long large-scale, zero-downtime migration of a central, sensitive service that processes all transactions to a new version. Responsibilities included:- Feature development- Implementing validation of duplicated traffic- Bug fixes- Refactoring pull architecture into event-driven architecture- Performance testing of new service- Debugged and fixed concurrency bugs- Co-led roll-out/rollback process and risk management→ Other feature development on webhooks, client API, and internal APIs→ Upheld on-call duties, built tooling and knowledge sharing to establish support SOPs/handbooks and trained new engineers for on-call responsibilities→ Led the grassroots organisation of the company's first ever hackathon Australia-wide→ Mentored interns and University of Melbourne scholarship recipientsSkills: Kotlin · Spring Boot · Kafka · gRPC · JSON-RPC · Protobuf · Kubernetes · Postgres · Splunk · LaunchDarkly · Grafana

Building web applications for Optimal Reality - Deloitte’s digital twin capability which helps organisations optimise transport.→ Implemented two features, refactored, and reviewed code for a web application used by the public sector→ Received return offer.Skills: React · TypeScript · GraphQL

One of Australia’s big 4 banks. I made processes more efficient in the Australia Data tribe and managed stakeholder relationships.I drove the following initiatives: → Optimisation of business loans through data-driven recommendations→ Re-designs of Qlik dashboards used by management→ Creation of Python script to automate internal employee surveysI supported other projects through data curation (Teradata SQL), Confluence documentation, and team management.I also led my squad of 7 as Scrum Master to improve work efficacy and team culture. I ran ceremonies, maintained the Jira board, and worked collaboratively with the Product Owner to manage the squad. My goal to execute action items from retrospectives resulted in stronger team performance and happiness.I also mentored an incoming intern becoming a Scrum Master, and provided feedback on their presentation deliverables.

Serving Gold Class patrons as a waiter, bartender, and kitchen staff.

Providing general guidance to the 2020 Executive team for matters regarding administration and club conduct.

Club achievements:• 540+ members (28% growth since 2018).• Won the best O-Week Showbag Award for 2019.• Nominated for Most Popular Club, Most Outstanding Publication, Most Popular Event.Responsibilities:• Spearheaded the organisation of the club's events as one of five executives.• Solely managed the administrative duties of the club and ensured all official documents complied with Clubs & Societies (C&S) standards.• Managed the club's events and membership register, correspondence and Google Drives.• Prepared fortnightly meeting agendas and minutes.• Led a committee of 30 directors and officers by ensuring their wellbeing, overseeing club activities, and facilitating the club's work culture.• Facilitated inter-university collaboration between VSA Monash, VSA University of Melbourne, VSA RMIT and VSA Victoria.Additional undertakings:• Started an initiative of producing administrative guides and videos to improve the consistency of administration practices over time.• Managed a team of 4 as supervisor for the Design portfolio.• Advised the Design portfolio for VSA Victoria.• Designed the official 2019 Camp T-shirt, as well as event posters for Camp Reunion, and Welcome Party.• Led the creation of the club's first Facebook cover video.

Responsibilities:• Planned activities and managed logistics in the organisation of the following events: The Amazing Race, $5 Bun Night, and Pho Night (nominated for Most Popular Club Event).• Acted as MC for Pho Night.

Responsibilities:• Designed the official 2018 committee t-shirt.• Designed promotional event posters for the following events: OGM + Board Games Night, The Amazing Race, $5 Bun Night, and the 2018 AGM.Software used included Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.