Christiaan Kortekaas Email & Phone Number

Brisbane, Qld, Au

Brisbane, Qld, Au

Brisbane, Qld, Au

Brisbane, Qld, Au

Brisbane, Queensland, Au

Responsibilities:- Act as product owner, technical product owner, solutions architect, specialist developer, devops engineer, development team manager on a shift of the university's core critical unique competitive advantage research systems products to Product Management, Continuous Delivery, DevOps, SAAS, PAAS, IAAS and sustainability- Act as the data specialist for the universities Excellence in Research Australia reporting to federal government ensuring we represent the impact, quantity and quality of UQ research in comparison with all competing universitiesAchievements:- Re-architected an estimated “lift and shift” of core critical research systems (UQ eSpace) to a in-production AWS bill ten times less in ongoing cost via taking advantage of AWS services such as S3, CloudFront, Lambda@Edge, ECS, Fargate, WAF, Aurora, Reserved and Spot Instances and Lambda- Guided various projects architectures towards API-first architectures utilising Lambda and Serverless approaches to have as little dependence on operations as possible- Achieved a best ever qualitative and quantitative representation of UQ’s research output to the ERA federal government 4-yearly report so we cement our place as a worldwide top 50 university- Performed code reviews, mentoring and guidance for developer and devops team members- Delivered improved Application Error Management (via Sentry SAAS)- Delivered a React/Material UI frontend and Laravel/Typescript+Lambda backend reference architecture and associated teams for all ongoing internal development- Lead frontend and backend teams to deliver UX based releases of the UQ research systems (UQ eSpace) including researcher and public interfaces MVP and subsequent continuous improvements- Implemented improved communications organisation wide via implementation of Slack including integrations with all developer tools, and improving developer to product owner communication- Improved quality via 100% code coverage testing targets

Brisbane, Queensland, Au

Achievements:- Lead the IT Strategy implementation to move systems to a central systems first, SAAS second, PAAS, IAAS last implementation on AWS and other vendors- Implemented Lean Project Portfolio Management practices, techniques and tools (Aha, Confluence and Pivotal Tracker)- Demonstrated the business value of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Deployment release pipelines and influenced its inclusion in the IT Strategy- Audited all 110+ library systems, created a vision for each and product roadmap or decommission strategy for each one- Centralised, ‘vendorised’ and/or decommissioned a majority (100+) of the library systems that were not part of our unique competitive advantage- Migrated all ongoing internally supported library systems no vendor was better than our internal developed offerings to:- Containerisation via Docker and AWS EC2 Container Service (via ECS PAAS)- Centralised Logging (via Papertrail SAAS)- Application Performance Monitoring (via New Relic SAAS)- Centralised version control (via GitHub SAAS replacing legacy Mercurial and Subversion platforms)- Continuous Delivery pipelines (via CodeShip SAAS replacing legacy Jenkins internal platforms)- Focus on improving security in every layer of stack, including staff training and tools (like AWS Web Application Firewall, Security Groups, VPC)- Improved quality of delivered code via heavy focus on automated testing and code coverage, improved code review practices and metrics (eg from Code Climate SAAS)

Brisbane, Queensland, Au

Agile Project Manager of eight senior software developers/DBAs. Internal Enterprise Cloud Manager (VMWare ESX + Puppet server automation). Drupal expert. Amazon cloud developer. Open source project founder.

Brisbane, Queensland, Au

Agile Project Manager of five senior software developers. Internal Enterprise Cloud Manager (VMWare ESX + Puppet server automation). Drupal expert. Open source project founder.

Brisbane, Queensland, Au

Team leader of 3 Senior Software Developers.PHP Development, MySQL database administration, Linux administration, Open source project founder (Fez)

Brisbane, Queensland, Au

COMP3000 Mobile Application Development at the School of IT and Electrical Engineering (iPhone and Google Android)

Brisbane, Queensland, Au

PHP Development of library web applications, MySQL database administration, Linux administration.Major achievement: Deployment and major customisations of the open source helpdesk system 'Eventum' (by MySQL AB), supporting 200 staff, thousands of students, over 1.5 million issues logged (as of January 2014), and millions of emails.

Brisbane, Queensland, Au

Management of Standard Operating Environment (Windows XP) for 200 financial services staff (accountants), Microsoft Active Directory, File Server, Firewall, Network, Antivirus, ASP Web development (Public website, Intranet and financial webapps), COBOL, Unix BASH shell scripting

Primary software development consultant to Queensland Rail Institute. Development of internal Visual Basic 6 QRI membership and financial services system. Major changes include migration of backend database from MS Access to MS SQL Server 2000, multiple feature and reporting development. Windows 2000, NT SOE and Windows Server 2000 Small Business Server management.