Daniel Williams Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, VIC, AU

Brisbane, QLD, AU

Melbourne, Victoria, AU

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.

Melbourne, VIC, AU

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.

Liverpool Street, England, GB

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.

• 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.

Leuven, BE

• 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.

Liverpool Street, England, GB

• 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.

Liverpool Street, England, GB

• 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.
• Technical architecture/ Pilot implementations/ demonstration/education workshops - automated testing practices, cloud adoption, containerisation, legacy application refactoring, CI, configuration management.

Boston, MA, US

• 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.

London, London, GB

• 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.

New York, NY, US

• 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.

London, GB

• 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.
• 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.

Austinmer, New South Wales, AU

• 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.
• 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

New York, NY, US

• 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.

New York, NY, US

• 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

New York, NY, US

• 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 &.
• 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

CA

• 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.

CA

• 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.
• 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).

Certificate, Data Engineering With Python Track (19 Courses)

Short Course (2 Days), Database Design Essentials

Short Course (3 Days), Sql Essentials

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be (Not Completed), Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Advanced Diploma, Electrical And Electronics Engineering