SelfWeath is successful local Fintech and leading Australian investment platform. Recognised as Australia's 10th fastest-growing company by the Australian Financial Review with 125,000+ Active Australian investors, $8.2 bn Assets on HIN and $150M+ Traded daily.

In Versent the Principal consultant role is a CXO on-demand function, my role covers all aspects from pre-sales to hands-on technical implementation:* Leading and participating in critical strategic, technical and operational discussions.* Creating roadmaps, architectures and operational designs.* Delivery management and financial management of Agile delivery across UX, Data engineering, AppDev and AWS Cloud modernisation.* Architectural/technical design & ideation to align with the business or product goals, API design, identity flows, library & tool selection, detailed code-level review and evaluation.* Technical engineering contributor - implementation ie CI/CD, writing IaC code, s/w test cases, UX design, cleaning data, integrating tools, writing scripts and utilities.* Engineering mentoring and coaching.* Presentations, pre-sales engineering, Cloud cost modelling, writing SOWs, estimates and work breakdown structures, implementation strategy and development of business cases.* Analysis of compliance and regulatory requirements for Cloud adoption.

Contino is a VC-backed boutique global DevOps & Cloud transformation consultancy.Covering all aspects from pre-sales to hands-on technical implementation:* Cloud and Application modernisation for multiple clients - Banks, Insurance, Government & other domains. * Pre & Post sales delivery - RFI/RFP, solution design, technical delivery, financial, for key accounts. Publishing articles and running webinars for marketing.* Delivery and technical engineering management of teams/squads across one or multiple engagements.* Responsible for all technical and non-technical stakeholder management.

• Co-founded DTC (direct to consumer) food manufacturing & e-commerce startup. • Responsible for design & execution of all technology & operational elements from packaging, website, marketing, branding, design of manufacturing processes, fulfilment and inventory processes. • Acquired thousands of online and wholesale customers across Australia and a growing international customer base in the United states, Asia and the UK.• Built a web and social media e-commerce with an above industry conversion rate of ~5% based predominantly on organic traffic and in-house digital content.

• Delivery & technical lead for various technology initiatively & migrations.• Contributed to regional Cloud adoption strategy & support model development.• Led key data centre, call centre and building migration initiatives across multiple sites, responsible for design, overall management and budgets for ~5M sized initiatives.• Performed hybrid architecture & hands on tech lead role for custom-developed chatbot/facebook high-traffic large event campaigns. •Technologies - Azure, Hashicorp Terraform, Node.js, Java App, New Relic stack, 3rd Party COTS.

• Established and led the Contino APAC region (Melbourne & Sydney) from the ground up. • Broad operational, strategic, sales/business development, marketing and recruitment responsibilities. Grown from one to seven employees and developed a pipeline of blue-chip clients in less than a year. • Developed and pitched the initial concept and strategy for the Australian office & APAC presence - inc. market research, competitor analysis, rates, business model & establishment. • Established strategic partnerships and hired the initial core team - engineering, recruitment, marketing & sales.• Set up initial business development and growth plan, sales & marketing activities and strategic partnerships. Created region specific content (articles & white papers), marketing campaigns and events. • Led technical delivery and managed initial customer projects.

• Delivery lead for key accounts (global telecoms software vendor).• Conducted DevOps maturity assessments - interviews/consulting/ education of senior management, middle management and team level staff based in Canada, India and Israel to identify challenges and proposed transformation path.•Technical architecture/ Pilot implementations/ demonstration/education workshops - automated testing practices, cloud adoption, containerisation, legacy application refactoring, CI, configuration management.

• Defined DevOps best practices with agile software development offering. Implementing CI/CD, configuration management, conducting tool assessment and maturity reviews.• Designed & implemented CI pipelines for mobile development teams (for a large UK retail banking client). • Managed remote development team for internal Sapient projects.

• Development manager for agile software delivery team developing warehouse execution layer interfacing between the warehouse automation hardware & fulfilment systems. • Led an Agile development team (7+ developers) & small DevOps team, transformed development and support models.• Delivered major migration initiative in the US fulfilment centre.• Led transformation of fulfilment systems - addressing technical debt, long-running performance & operational issues associated with a monolithic legacy stack.

Founded an online retail business selling products in the UK, US and Canada within the health & supplements space.• Built successful high volume sales - tens of thousands of DTC customers per month, averaging 500+ orders per day with an AOV +USD$70.• Responsible for all aspects of the business - ad buying/ affiliate marketing, web/e-commerce development, anti-fraud management, offshore customer service centre and fulfilment partnerships to serve US and UK customers.• Developed web channels & managed online platforms - this included - HTML/CSS dev work, python-based tools, Linux, CRM, API Integration, Email Marketing, Google Analytics, Cloud, and various SaaS tools.

• Responsible for process design and of automation client onboarding processes for Global Equities and F&O clients.• Developed python based data analysis utilities to analyse global client enrichments and trading rules.• Designed process optimisation and tools to automate manual processes and reduce the onboarding lead time for institutional clients.• Contributed to product & UX design of existing web portal(s) to streamline productivity and lead times from weeks to days.• Agile delivery management of development offshore team.

• Responsible for continuous improvement of HSBC Futures electronic tradingenvironment.• Re-designed, re-platformed and rationalised HSBC’s global core derivatives trading platform as part of a small team, to improve stability, operational efficiency and reduce costs. Consolidated resource footprint from 30+ servers in multiple regions, led to US$300K+ cost saving.• Developed python-based utilities to automate operational requirements of the distributed platform. Involved in various other operational upgrades and system-wide improvement initiatives.

Backpacking in South East Asia

Founded my own web consultancy providing consulting services to small and medium-sized businesses in Sydney focused on Saas migration/adoption of cloud platforms ande-commerce websites. Performed all roles within the business, managed a remote development & design team in Australia, the US, Israel and Eastern Europe and delivered various client projects.

• Team lead in hands-on engineering role as part of a team of 6 DevOps engineers. Managed global market connections and a proprietary ultra low-latency algorithmic platform (C++, linux based with optimised h/w and networks). • Supported global colo HFT exchange connections, algos, broker connectivity & complex proprietary auxiliary systems. • Supported highly kinetic, high pressure & high consequence trading environment - intra-day releases. • Worked with Dev, Test, Quants and traders on automation & DevOps focused initiatives. • Developed bespoke operational tools and monitoring systems in Python, Perl & PHP to support increase uptime and resiliency.

Backpacking in central America and Alaska

• Led a team responsible technical onboarding of North America/Latin America clients. • Technical solution design and implementation for institutional clients - connectivity, market access (DMA, OMS, Post-trade reporting, market data and algorithmic trading).• Performed global trading infrastructure upgrades.

•One of two technical leads responsible for client onboarding for JP Morgan's entire derivatives (Futures & Options) client base in Europe, Middle and Africa.• Responsible for solution architecture, technical deliverables, testing, end-to-end across all trading & market connectivity solutions offered by JPM for derivatives exchanges. • Managed client communications, technical uplift & troubleshooting - technologies - exchange gateways, various trading platforms, market data api, FIX Protocol, various messaging platforms and middleware systems, • Performed large number major after hours systems upgrades for JPM F&O Trading platforms.

Backpacking throughout South America

Team Lead for Asia support team responsible for F&O Global Markets, exchange connectivity projects, client connectivity.• Support for all GL Trade products for 400 internal traders and 1000+ external clients.• Exchange upgrades, new environment build-outs, project management and planning of all trading system upgrade, client migrations, down-stream considerations this includes liaising with exchanges, vendors, clients & users to create detailed project plans/time lines.• Support of Sales Teams in design/creation/costing/implementation of customized client solutions, client demonstrations & training and relationship building.• Daily support of the F&O front-office trading systems and connected infrastructure

Consulted to Nortel and other national carriers working in various roles as a network engineer / technical PM.• Nortel Project management and day to day allocation of project resources and logistics. Tracking/administration of project related expenses.• Optus Network Management System Project Engineer (Implementation and upgrade of all Optus NMS Transmission systems). (UNIX/Java based platforms)• Commissioning and testing Engineer for various national projects (Optus,Vodaphone, Telstra, CommonWealth Bank, Deutsche Bank). Nortel Networks SDH/SONET systems.

• Acted as technical project manager and hands-on lead network engineer on multiple large-scale projects (up to USD $100m in size) for government and large carriers in Japan, Pakistan, Thailand, Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, China and Australia. • Performed network engineering of all Optical products (and several data products)- Installation, design, commissioning, project delivery responsibilities.• Design and execution of customer trials (new products) sales, client training and technical support (pre & post sales engineering).