Lachlan Coote Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Australia

San Francisco Bay Area

Initially, technical lead for a new project to build an enterprise Service Catalog optimized for cloud provisioning.■ Championed a domain-agnostic, data-driven approach to extensibility. ■ Re-oriented skills from .NET to the Java and Spring ecosystems.■ Carried the project to feature complete prior to an acquisition that led to a change in strategy.Post-acquisition, co-led technical efforts to integrate complementary parts of the acquired product with the prior project:■ Collaborated on an architecture that would enable the products to ship as a cohesive suite. ■ Designed and implemented new services with RESTful interfaces enabling key business-level functions to be shared across the suite. ■ Suite released in December 2013 as vCloud Automation Center 6.0. More recently, collaborated to develop a proof-of-concept of a novel approach to policy-based management:■ Designed & implemented the nucleus of the solution as a set of micro-services with RESTful interfaces on a Java+Spring stack.■ Configured & owned the Continuous Integration & lab infrastructure for the project.■ Rapidly delivered a number of prototypical integrations to validate the solution.■ Demonstrated the completed proof-of-concept to executive staff, contributing to decision to transition to product.■ Currently implementing 2nd generation solution for production, leveraging a distributed, asynchronous service fabric.■ 6 patent applications filed for the project.Throughout my time:■ Hands-on & -dirty with the code-base.■ Engaged with product managers, translating customer requirement to technical & functional designs.■ Coordinated with peers across 5 geos.■ Mentored a local team of 20 engineers.■ Tireless advocate for clean code, code reviews and automated testing.

Sydney, Australia

Technical lead for a web-based, enterprise IT service management solution.• Designed, oversaw and implemented major enhancements to front- and back-ends of the product.• Designed and implemented a data extensibility framework which provided customers with a simple user interface to define their own custom attributes and access them in reports and search results, saving customers money by reducing their need for professional services.• Identified and implemented critical integrations with the VMware product portfolio, to increase our sales team’s success in a broader range of deals.

Sydney, Australia

Technical lead for a web-based, enterprise IT service management solution.• Designed, oversaw and implemented major enhancements to front- and back-ends of the product.• Designed and implemented a plug-in-based integration platform enabling resource, event and action integration with external systems that made the product more “sticky” in customer environments.• Created a plug-in SDK to accelerate plug-in development and platform adoption.• Developed and delivered technical training for the platform and SDK to customers and field staff.

Sydney, Australia

Implemented and maintained the company's core product: infraEnterprise, a web-based IT service management tool. Joined the company when it only had 3 engineers and I was required to work autonomously. Stayed with the company as that team quadrupled in size, holding a senior position within the development team.Development spanned front- and back-ends of the product. Coded using C#, Delphi, HTML and JavaScript, against SQL Server or Oracle databases.Carried key new product features from basic customer requirements to release. Responsible for the concept, design and realization of multiple plug-in frameworks integrating infraEnterprise with enterprise IT systems, with a strong emphasis on extensibility and end-user configurability:■ Federated CMDB■ User/Group Directory IntegrationImplemented the majority of the plug-ins also, gaining a broad, customer-oriented appreciation for well-designed APIs and SDKs.Implemented tailored solutions for customers, often requiring my presence on site to engage with customers.Developed and delivered technical training courses on how to extend and support the product to both professional services, support and particular customers.Represented engineering for Infra Corporation during the technical due diligence that lead to the acquisition by EMC.

Sydney, Australia

Worked 20 hours a week as a web developer, concurrent with my tertiary study.Developed java applets delivering visualizations of live stock market data to day traders.Built custom, data-driven websites for customers, complete from front-end to back-end using ASP Classic and MS SQL Server databases.Enhanced and maintained the company's core stock market data website, http://www.weblink.com.au.Provided direct telephone support to customers.