As the CTO of Connexion, my aim is to leverage people, technology and business to deliver innovative products whilst leading an engaging engineering culture.Key successes:Modernised engineering practices to be effectively efficient in what we deliver by introducing engineering standards, frameworks, and reusable templates.Managing security best practices, moved to SSO across majority of our vendor integrations and improved the security posture of the entire organization.Lead and transformed the security health of Connexion and helped achieved ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification.Led the transformation of a knit group of, over 30 engineers into five platform teams promoting a culture of empowerment and responsibility.Initiated the selection of Lead Engineers for each team to cultivate leadership skills and improve team dynamics.Distributed training budgets towards courses to encourage a growth mindset among engineers and support learning and advancement.Championed a shift from a development focused approach, to an engineering mindset prioritizing accuracy and excellence in delivering solutions.

Connexion Telematics Ltd (ASX: CXZ), a cutting-edge developer and proprietor of Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions, is revolutionizing the global Automotive landscape with its flagship platforms, OnTRAC and Connexion. OnTRAC, a key tool for General Motors (GM) in orchestrating the largest Courtesy Transportation Program (CTP) in the US, and Connexion, crafted with OEM-agnostic functionality, are at the forefront of automotive innovation.The Company is on an aggressive growth trajectory, expanding its proprietary SaaS offerings. With a footprint in over 20% of Franchised Light-Vehicle Dealerships in the US, Connexion's strategic position is robust, fueling the expansion of its industry-leading B2B software platform.As a Principal Engineer at Connexion, I'm at the helm of defining standards, frameworks, and practices. Collaborating seamlessly with the management team, I drive value through pragmatic engineering, ensuring excellence in every facet of our work.Our technology stack, a blend of modern and robust tools, includes:TypescriptNodeJS, enhanced with the NestJS frameworkAWS Serverless architectureServerless frameworkLocalstackReactJSAngularJSContract-based testing with PactJSAutomation powered by PlaywrightThis blend of technology and innovation positions us at the cutting edge of automotive software solutions, ready to shape the future of the industry.

Built a MaaS (Mobility as a Service) and Taxi/Rideshare aggregation platform using serverless technologies and event-driven architecture.Design and develop high performant, cost optimized, and long term strategical architectural solutions that cater for business needs. I utilize the latest but familiar technologies that deliver business goals but also minimize developer overload and increase efficiency. Technologies:.Net CoreAWS Serverless (Lambda, DynamoDb, Api Gateway)AWS SageMaker (Machine Learning through AutoML and MLOps through CI/CD and CloudFormation)Github Actions (CI/CD)ECS Clusters (Containers, Fargate, Load Balancers, Target Groups) Observability using Cloudwatch Metrics, AWS EventBridge, Cloudwatch Metric Filters, SNS Notifications, AWS Chatbot, AWS Alarms, AWS Application InsightsKey Successes:1. Designed and built a fraud detection system using AI and ML and rule-based detection that reduced chargebacks from over ~20% to under 1% revenue.2. Configured GitHub Actions as the de facto standard for building and deploying applications.3. Introduced and redesigned services to "Evolvable Architectural" patterns.4. Trained several ML models for cost prediction.5. Introduced the concept of service layers (Layer 1 (Core), Layer 2 (Business), Layer 3 (XL))6. Introduced and configured anomaly detection and application monitoring by leveraging the latest AWS tools such as AWS XRay and AWS Cloudwatch with anamoly detection.7. Introduced Service Discovery pattern for easier resolution of services and less design time dependencies.8. Built a reward promotional platform leveraging an existing mar-tech solution with custom integration to our backend. This empowers our marketing team to setup campaigns for automatic reward generation based on positive user behavior.9. Brought down AWS hosting cost by ~20 percent by leveraging smarter patterns and newer technologies.10. Architected and built many critical services.

Rejoined FanDuel for a small contract - continued working on the Baseball Pitch by Pitch model.

I worked with a set of great engineers to build out self help features for the latitude financial mobile app. The platform used GoLang and was hosted on AWS ECS and used AWS DynamoDb.

Sportsbet / Fanduel is the number #1 online platform for sports betting. My role here was to work on the US sports side. I worked on the NFL SGM for Players and worked with a highly talented and collaborative team to build the cutting-edge Baseball Pitch by Pitch model. This model was highly complex and had non-functional requirements to simulate, calculate, and distribute the prices within 5 seconds of an event in the game. The model is composed of over 10 microservices all written in .Net Core and hosted in Amazon Web Services (AWS).Technologies:Languages: C# with .Net CoreCI/CD - Jenkins Multibranch PipelineContainer Hosting: Elastic Container Services (ECS)Performance Monitoring: New RelicLog Aggregation: SumologicDatabase: Amazon Aurora Serverless (MYSQL)Others: S3, Amazon Lambda, RabbitMQKey Successes:1. Took ownership of a pre-existing NFL model and built the Player Props (SGM) 2. Designed and developed the first pitch-by-pitch baseball model. 3. Introduced serverless computing such as AWS Lambda and ECS Fargate.4. Introduced and migrated to .Net Core from .Net Framework.5. Setup infrastructure as code for all new projects.

BetEasy was the #2 betting platform in Australia and one of the fastest growing. Their point of difference was their technology. The platform was built on the latest technology and the best architectural patterns. BetEasy has now merged with SportsBet.Key Successes:Architected and built a highly performant API that handled roughly 1 million requests a minute. This involved changing the load balancer, changing the proxy settings, using the right EC2 machines, application-level changes, and an unorthodox approach to solving the problem.

CityFM is WestFarmer's facility management provider. In Australia, they provide FM services to Coles Group, Bunnings, Officeworks, etc.As a software development manager, I had to manage 4 streams of work and the goal was to modernize their practices. Key Successes:1. Built product teams so each team is focused on a certain product rather than a suite of products. 2. Introduced newer technologies to reduce cost and efficiency.3. Improved CI/CD practices.4. Introduced Agile Practices.5. Designed and built a solution to traveling "tradie" problem by using AI and Heuristics algorithms.

FLIP's goal is to create the world's most dynamic logistics platform and my job is to ensure we set a strong technical direction in where the business value is easily derived and the technical team can innovate.The role involves Technology SelectionHiringMentoringTechnical RoadmapIn this role I've established several things and frameworks which increase productivity and also build robust software.Technologies:Software Architect - Microservices and CQRSApplication Architecture - SOLID Design Principles with C# and .NetMobile App Development - Xamarin Forms, Xamarin iOS, and Xamarin AndroidProcess Efficiency - Git Flow, CI and CDCloud Development - AWS & Azure - Service FabricFront end development - VueJS, Angular 2 and Typescript

As a technical lead, I worked on multiple products.Project#1Inchcape was a partnership between the Trivett Group and Carsales. I was tasked to build a team that would modernize the Trivett groups existing digital assets including Subaru.com.au website.Tech Stack.Net C# | Umbraco CMS | SQL Server Project # 2A video-based e-commerce platform that was focused on the seller using video to sell their product. I had to lead multiple streams of work. This had heavy involvement from the parent business. This was also the first product to use cloud services (AWS) and the learnings from this was applied to the wider Carsales business. Tech Stack: .Net C# | Microservices | AngularJS | ElasticSearchProject # 3This was Carsales's General Classified product which they acquired and was built with legacy technologies. I took ownership of this product when it was in bad shape but quickly turned it around. Key Successes: 1. Mentored Junior developers to use best practices to deliver amazing outcomes.2. Launched the first AWS first platform inside Carsales within 6 months.3. Reduced bug count by ~80 percent by changing underlying technology.4. Managed multiple teams to deliver a positive result within a short period of time.

Carsales.com.au is Australia's #1 place to buy and sell used cars. As a Senior Software Engineer, I had to put on multiple hats. Tech Stack: .Net Framework | C# | SQL Server | MongoDB | Web Services | CMSDuties:1. Building new features according to best practices2. Part of the software architectural team 3. Handling code reviews and ensuring best practices.4. Mentoring junior and mid-level engineers.5. Coordinating releases between QAs, different teams, and product owners.Key Successes:1. Architected and built the whole Carsales Platform to be SEO-friendly which delivered a significant amount of organic growth thus resulting in less SEM spend.2. Built an award-winning "Help Me Choose feature"3. Optimized the CI/CD process by reducing time spent building from 15 minutes down to 3 minutes.

As a freelance engineer, I got to work on multiple projects for large media companies. Most of my clients were fortune 500 companies and media-based companies.