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Leader. Culture carrier. Change maker. A strong technical, commercial and professional background in technology innovation and a proven track record of delivering strategic value to organisations, customers and shareholders through meaningful digital transformation. 20+ years of broad and deep industry experience in building end-to-end, highly distributed, and extensible digital platforms for MNCs. Highly focused on building digital factories of the modern era and enabling the efficient creation and distribution of digital products and experiences that are crucial to the new economy.Stakeholder and outcome centric:1. Organization (talent) - provide a common, extensible platform that drives engineering effectiveness and excellence2. Customers - deliver a robust, performant and scalable platform that accelerates time-to-market and provides a first-rate digital experience3. Shareholders (investors) - enable a highly optimized and elastic cloud-based platform that delivers economies of scale and superior returns on investment. Specializing in software development, cloud & legacy platforms, cloud-native architecture, full project life-cycle management, strategic vendor relationship management, as well as financial/operational and transformational programme management. Champion of Agile, DevOps and SRE methodologies and standards, having led complex projects involving re-engineering processes, implementation of Agile/SRE best practices, and driving digital transformation to future proof large scale organizations.Recognised as a culture carrier with a reputation of breaking down barriers and bringing people together, improving company culture and communicating in a clear, concise and thoughtful manner to engage and influence all levels of the organisation.Skills• Technical: Cloud Platforms (Azure, AWS and GCP), Container Runtimes (Kubernetes, Pivotal Cloud Foundry), Enterprise Software Development (Java, Python, SQL), Web (REST-based microservices, Spring), Agile Project Management (Scrum & Kanban), Lean product management (objective/time horizon-based roadmaps), DevOps (scripting, automated testing, CI/CD, Site Reliability Engineering), Databases (Relational - PostgreSQL/Sybase/etc, NoSQL - MongoDB/ElasticSearch), Data Science (Statistical Analysis, Data Mining/Machine Learning), SDLC (Git/Gitlab/Github/Gitflow)• Functional: Insurance, Capital Markets, Financial Reporting, Market Risk, Enterprise Systems and Quality Assurance. • Languages: English (Native), Cantonese (Intermediate), Mandarin (Basic), Japanese (Basic)