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Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Responsibilities:• Strategic and tactical technical leadership, including software design and development, QA, infrastructure and devops, governance and IT administration.• Lead and mentor a team of on site and remote developers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.• Hand on engagement with the code base as lead software designer, author, reviewer, and maintainer.• Ensure product delivery to spec and on time in an agile/scrum environment.• Build, monitor enhance and maintain cloud-based platform solutions prioritizing scalability, robustness and cost effectiveness.• Work with founders and product designers to design end evolve new products and features.• Provide a lean virtual office, serving the day to day needs of all our staff at different levels of the business.• Guide the organization through compliance and accreditation efforts.Accomplishments:• Successfully led the delivery of TheSpecSheet.com’s core product suite, a B2B webapp (node, java, postgres). Over many iterations this app evolved to cover the needs of advertising businesses across many sub-sectors of the industry, through intuitive toolchains, automation, integration with suppliers and through introduction of emerging technologies such as AI based OCR and LLM technologies.• Architected and authored an infrastructure-as-code cloud platform (Terraform/AWS) and managed the migration from legacy infrastructure. • Built a team of legends, shaping raw talented devs into fully fledged software powerhouses who understood the full depth and breadth of their problem space and their capacity to influence it positively.• Guided the organization through the successful accreditation process for ISO-27001, establishing robust security and compliance frameworks that cut across cloud security best practices, software development practices, human resource practices and data management practices.

Sydney, Australia

Responsibilities:• Lead a team of front and back end engineers in development of software• Manage project delivery timelines through project management software and communicate with stakeholders.• Design innovative solutions for high quality user facing media experiences.• Establish best practices throughout the team.• Establish supporting software for full SDLC. (CI/CD)• I collaboration with the CTO design architecture based on AWS offerings.• Build team cultureAccomplishments:• Initial launch of panelist.com live event platform, providing hybrid on site and live streaming event experiences.• Design and delivery of AWS medialive/mediapackage based media streaming platform (live/on-demand)• Establishment of best practices through collaborative and exploratory sessions with the team, resulting in introduction of unit testing (React testing framework), integration testing (Playwright), CI and CD via github actions, scheduled tech debt remediation time, and code quality via Sonar. • Established regular on site catchups for increasing technical and social engagement among the team, and created dedicated times for remote workers to have social engagements with the local team.

London Area, United Kingdom

Responsibilities:• Leading teams to deliver bespoke software solutions for the largest newspaper website in the world.• Design of highly performant distributed systems.• Mentoring of junior developers, in software design principles and in-house technologies.Accomplishments:• Design and build, as part of a team, the Daily Mail website frontend, serving millions of daily requests, of > 1MB each. • Design and build, as part of a team, content distribution systems (push), publishing to syndicated systems such as Facebook IA, Apple News, Google AMP, MSN, News Break.• Lead initiatives into social media utilisation but the organisation, resulting in real time analytics • Design (with UX engineers) interfaces to internal tools that serve as a single point of reference for content distribution across many content networks, as used by editorial and commercial staff.• Working seamlessly across teams, across all aspects of the business, publishing, authoring, ads and tracking, and in a variety of languages, platforms and databases.

Sydney, Australia

As a change of pace, I worked a Client Liaison for this Sydney based startup, focusing mostly on government clients. My role was varied, but included:● Requirements gathering with representatives from government, project managers, technical department heads etc.● Creating detailed functional specs of software requirements for actioning by local and offshore dev teams.● Mentoring junior developers● Providing and managing support services such as CI environments to off shore teams.

White City

● Designed and developed mission critical software to manage recording of BBC content from live satellite feeds for digital distribution. ● Designed and developed desktop media publishing solutions.● Designed and implemented web service interfaces to back end work flow systems allowing eternal systems to schedule digital content.● In consultation with the BBC metadata teams, designed and developed core metadata management libraries providing ORM like access to sophisticated RESTful services.● Developed APIs for exposing workflow state to monitoring systems such as Nagios.● Spearheaded a series of initiatives to improve development processes and reduce 'cowboy' culture. Introduced in these initiatives were standardised source code management practices, peer programming and reviews, continuous integration and TDD across the entire stack (JavaScript, PHP, Java).

London, United Kingdom

● Designed and developed a system to configure the delivery of advertising from several advertising providers independently.● Introduced better SCM and build system practices leveraging to reduce conflicts between developers and facilitate better testing during the SDLC (SVN branches, deployment schedules).● Introduced the use of ORM tools to increase flexibility in the development team.● Introduced test driven development practices to the development team.● Restructured the Gumtree housing classifieds software to require payment from users.● Refactored several key software components to sigificantly reduce server load.

Crewe, United Kingdom

● Provided, in collaboration with other engineers, an end-to-end plan for improving the performance of a bulk mailing system, including restructuring a several terrabyte database.● Developed new software to automate repetetive tasks in a high load environment, such as scheduled maintenance (archiving data etc).● Refactored the existing database connectivity libraries to provide basic SQL transaction support, and provided training in using transactions to in-house developers.● Introduced several new practices to the development environment such as source code management (CVS) and test driven development.● In collaboration with the testing team, designed a test plan that described the conditions required for end-to-end unit testing and ongoing regression testing.(Perl, PostgreSQL, Red Hat GNU/Linux, Apache2, CVS, UML)

Sydney, Australia

● Developed an application to fulfil the internal billing requirements of this company. This includes the periodic/one-off invoicing of clients, ledger management and reporting tools and web facing administrative tools for stakeholders.● Implemented, in collaboration with the development team, a series of development best practices such as test driven development, source control and deployment guidelines, and the use of the extreme programming development methodology.● Designed and managed the restructure of the Bulletproof codebase from a 2-tier (data/client interface) architecture to a 3-tier architecture (data/business logic/client interface) providing significant productivity improvement on subsequent development projects.● Developed software to retrieve and aggregate client usage data for later use in invoicing and reporting.● Designed and implemented distributed systems using SOAP.● Oversaw the migration of client data from MYOB to the aforementioned billing application.● Developed miscellaneous web facing tools for use by the finance and sales teams.● Developed a Firefox toolbar to provide easy access to common internal tasks (searching different applications etc)

Sydney, Australia

● Identified and resolved several inconsistencies between the purchasing and invoicing components of the Homescreen codebase, resolving AUD100,000 in reporting errors.● Developed a customised Knoppix desktop environment for the Homescreen offices, standardising applications amongst all users and facilitating desk swapping.

Sydney, Australia

I took a Sabbatical to produce a windows desktop plant identification application for this non-profit organisation.

Sydney, Australia

● Migrated the C++ templating system of the Australian fork of the Yahoo! Auctions codebase from OTC to STL.● Managed the analysis and documentation of the significant technical problems that had plagued the auctions platform since it's inception in Australia.● Managed the implementation of load balancing measures for the auctions platform, leveraging internal Yahoo! IPC technologies.● Managed the implementation of redundancy and fail-over measures for the machines serving the auctions platform.● Managed the creation and configuration of a testing environment for the auctions platform, and developed both automated and user driven test cases.● Implemented the showcase features of the Yahoo! Auctions platform to allow for rapid set-up of special promotions.● Migrated 20 FreeBSD servers from FreeBSD 3.4 to FreeBSD 4.2.● Developed technical documentation for the auctions platforms.

Sydney, Australia

● Designed and developed a whois server for the jp.com and au.com domains.● Designed and developed, in collaboration with the sales and marketing teams, reseller software allowing for the re-branding and resale of NetRegistry products.● Designed the XML based domain name registration protocol for the NetRegistry domain name registration engine.● Developed client-side tools for use by domain name resellers when interacting with the NetRegistry domain name registration engine.● Designed and developed, in collaboration with all stake-holders, the user administration sections of the JP.com/AU.com domain name registration engine.● Managed the design and setup of Websphere Service Provider Edition to allow NetRegistry to resell WebSphere instances.

Sydney, Australia

● Development of several high profile websites for travel industry clients including Flightcentre, Covermore Insurance and STA Travel.● Development of numerous JavaScript libraries for aiding in web form based data entry.● Development of extensions to the Saint travel database engine.