Vice President Of Engineering
Sydney, Nsw, Au
Freelancer.com is the world’s largest freelancing, outsourcing and crowdsourcing marketplace. In this role reporting to the CEO, I was responsible for growing and leading the global engineering team and defining and executing the company's operating and technical direction. Freelancer.com primarily connects small businesses and individuals from the western world with freelancers in the developing world, empowering entrepreneurs on both sides of the globe. Freelancer Limited listed on the Australian Securities Exchange in 2013 with a market capitalisation of over $1 billion. Freelancer's engineering team consists of 150+ staff across offices located in Australia (Sydney), Canada (Vancouver), United Kingdom (London), Philippines (Manila), and Argentina (Buenos Aires). My position focused on strategic leadership to enable the delivery of innovative mobile and web products, the continued adoption of cloud based technologies, agile development and workflow practices, the design and implementation of real-time systems, and Service Oriented Architecture and APIs.I also lecture on topics including software engineering, scalable infrastructure, and Agile development practices at the University of Sydney.