David Gardiner Email & Phone Number

North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sound United produces a wide range of audio products including speakers, wireless speakers, sound bars, AVR’s and HiFi’s. Sound United acquired Denon & Marantz in 2014 as well as Polk, Definitive Technologies, Boston Acoustic, Classe and Bower & Wilkins at different times. • Demonstrate expertise in administering all daily activities within the Sydney office, including the complete infrastructure and HEOS WS cloud environments. • Spearhead software build migration projects, in-depth testing, and complex deployments to CICD; test proper functionality of artifacts, and engage in unit testing of APIs during the build. • Design and develop critical builds and coordinate the successful release throughout the company. • Monitor and continuously assess HEOS WS cloud infrastructure continuous in order to proactively integrate upgrades. • Direct and oversee the movement from RDS MySQL to Aurora and ELB to ALB utilizing Cloud Formation. • Configure, integrate, and support voice user interfaces Amazon Alexa and Google Actions with HEOS WS ensuring speakers can be controlled via a VUI. • Investigate, analyze, and fully resolve various issues with music services and embedded upgrades post-deployment to AWS China. • Ascertain real and potential bugs within the firmware upgrade as well as define and implement effective resolutions. • Employ control and authorization over the architecture and implementation of a broad range of software platforms and disciplines, such as U-Boot, firmware upgrades, embedded partitioning, AWS components, build, and logging of (embedded + cloud). • Administer all facets of SSL, certificates, secure boot, library linking, AWS billing, networking (office + cloud), and DNS. • Design and enhance the HEOS 4.0 platform continuous development in order to optimize performance.

North Sydney

Denon and Marantz acquired the Cloud Team from Altec Lansing. D&M mainly produced AVRs and HiFis during this time and was preparing to move into wireless speakers. They renamed the AIOS infrastructure to HEOS and used this infrastructure for its wireless and synchronised speakers. Later on, the HEOS infrastructure was integrated into AVRs and HiFis. • Provided tactical leadership throughout the migration of a cloud infrastructure from Rackspace to AWS, as AWS provides a better and more complete cloud infrastructure. • Carried out the alignment of objectives across code, deployment, and infrastructure in regards to builds, releases, and upgrades. • Achieved measurable success in governing all engineering activities of the Sydney office as well as its cloud infrastructure. • Reviewed, evaluated, and completed the transitioning of intricate code and multiple systems from SVN to Git. • Conducted a heavily involved U-Boot upgrade continuation and ffmpeg integration into an embedded platform continuation. • Streamlined the implementation of critical upgrades while performing testing and debugging continuation, primarily regarding U-Boot jffs2 issues. • Headed the configuration, launch, and maintenance of the AWS deployment of WS applications (EC2, ELB, S3, RDS, ROUTE53). • Enhanced infrastructure performance though HEOS 4.0 platform development and deployment.

North Sydney

• Ascertained, assessed, and delivered all requirements for a key U-Boot upgrade. • Piloted the integration of ffmpeg into an embedded platform as well as a firmware upgrade, ensuring any bugs were discovered and eradicated. • Synchronized the AWS deployment of WS applications, including EC2, ELB, S3, RDS, and ROUTE53. • Presided over the design, development, and support of an AIOS 3.0 platform.

North Sydney

• Finalized the consolidation of codes and platforms into a singular build system for Linux embedded ARM, Linux x86 PC, Mac OS X, iPhone, Android, iPhone, and new AIOS 2.1 embedded platform. • Conducted thorough porting of code which enabled run on Mac OS X, Android, iPhone and AIOS 2.1. • Completed porting of U-boot for a modern platform. • Optimized procedures for firmware upgrades.

St Leonards

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Physics

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Mechatronics, Robotics, And Automation Engineering, First Class Honours

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