Rakesh Goel Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Director of Engineering - ET COG, HR Tech Rewards

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Up for a new challenge at one of global Aussie giant in financial services building global rewards platform

Bella Vista, Nsw, Au

Technically leading the Woolworths’ Everyday Rewards – Acquisition and Retention Tribe, Subscription Tribe (Business Units) ensuring delivery and maintenance of technical systems. Looking after technology roadmap, strategy, cross functional solution design and architecture along with maintaining operational budget and cost for our systems. There are about 13 agile squads in these 2 business units with 80+ product engineers looking after many key initiatives like Rewards partnerships, Real time loyalty system for personalized offers, AWS to GCP migration, Rewards OneLogin (SSO), Staff Benefits Portal etc. Now technically leading new business unit – Subscriptions also to deliver a key program touching eComm, Rewards and fulfillment channels.Chapter lead (direct line manager) for API engineers serving across WooliesX leading the Full stack service engineering practice

Bella Vista, Nsw, Au

Platform owner for Loyalty systems, Digital experience and PartnersProud to lead Woolworths development teams and looked after alliance with strategic loyalty partners like Caltex, Euro Garages, Qantas, Bupa, BWS, Origin, Super Pharmacy, PetCulture, MarketPlace, Marley Spoon and many more. We have built a loyalty platform (Rewards Partners Gateway) to provide real time and batch interfaces for integrations. Managed 3 parallel teams (Loyalty Solutions, Rewards Digital Website and Rewards partnerships squads) to design and deliver different aspects of the product for Loyalty and Rewards.

Bella Vista, Nsw, Au

Technical Lead and Cloud Architecture - AWS cloud with NodeJs

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Implementing AppBoy for Fox Sports Apps (Mobile and Desktop): App boy is powerful real-time messaging system across devices for push notification. Building/migrating to AWS to accept user subscriptions, preferences etc. from all devices and apps that will store it on elastic cloud and post it to AppBoy for real time push notifications for sports events. Also working on existing transcoding and mediaAll dockerized micro-services mainly using lambdas behind APIs on API gateway, ActiveMQs, SQS, SNS, S3, Lambdas, AWS Batch, Elastic Search, Portainer, serverless, Akamai, Mule etc.

♛ We are building a new digital platform like iTunes, Amazon to sell digital media for partners – telecom (Vodafone - UK, India, Tata Docomo - India), music houses or individuals targeting 150 Million users globally. ► An AWS cloud based solution to host and sell/rent digital media. Challenging project on AWS cloud involving– ♦ Lambda (with NodeJS), DynamoDB, AWS batch, RDS, S3, SES, SQS, EC2, CloudFront, Kong API Gateway, Elastic Search, Xray, terraform with Spring boot, java, python, Thrift (IPC) ♦. ► Docker containers to run micro-services and even the tests on CI – Teamcity along with local AWS dockerised stack. OpenAPI spec with Swagger.► Key modules I architected and worked on: Media (Video/mp3) transcoding and meta data ingestion using DDEX format, Media Search indexes enriched by Artist’s/Album’s Meta-data from Rovi Corp (100GB of metadata), User and Login module, Kong API Gateway (JWT/Outh2), Thrift IPC for micro-services, Integration with Zuora payment gateway for billing, Locker module for media access via CloudFront distributions and lots more. ☞ Also dealt with off-shore team in Vietnam (NashTech) who have joined hands together to make it happen.

North Sydney, Nsw, Au

✰ Worked with website and service portal teams► Predictive address search for NBN website - Predictive Address Search – lead the team exploring the potential of Elasticsearch to improve the address search. Elasticsearch came out very efficient and accurate matcher optimized with Edge_NGram, phonetic and fuzzy analysers. Designed, Evaluated and set it up on ElasticSearch cloud. Handling and Migrating Bulk data for all Aussie locations.► Location web service - exposed detailed premises information with vendor history about any Geo location in Australia for NBN advanced address search.► RSP Management - Online management tool for all Aussie Retail Service Providers (RSPs) dealing with NBN☞ Cracking out of the box logic to achieve astonishing results from predictive address search index, better than Google's address search API. Also very quick turnaround to deliver (Design and implementation) for both green field projects

✰ Worked for clients Road and Maritime Services (RMS) and Service NSW► MAIP (Mandatory Alcohol Interlock Program) – Huge program for convicted drivers. UI, Restful APIs, bulky spring batches, 3rd party vendors, Interfaced with ‘Drives’ mainframe over WebSphere ESB► Worked on services available on myrta.com -My Rego, Licence, Change your address, Rego Renew, oplinc – road closure licenses for client 'RMS'☞ Achievements: Lead the team though fully hands on to successfully deliver projects including green field projects.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

✰ Worked with ANZ's OnePath Wealth Management group► Smart Choice Super - ANZs Simple Super website changed for Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) legislation. It was interfaced with mainframe backend over Tibco. ► Distribution Management System – distribution of premiums to brokers and sub brokers. Implemented async report generation using WebSphere MQ.☞ Achievements: Proposed and implemented hashed token based SSO between anz.com and super websites

Sydney, Nsw, Au

✰ Worked for client - Westpac Bank's BT Financial Group thru Wipro► Integrated 3rd party Quote Management System with BT’s Life Central System. This integrator exposed SOAP end points to receive pay loads from QMS and process and submit to LC system over enterprise bus (Tibco)☞ Achievements: Proposed SOAP web service solution to 3rd party vendor for integration with LC team.

London, Gb

✰ Managed team of about 10-12 people to deliver end to end solutions and performed multiple roles - technical leader, JEE designer and configuration/release manager.► Clients: Work Cover – NSW Govt., Insurance - UK, – UK ► Insurance portal – Policy and premiums apps, Claims Portal – Claims and recovery apps, People Portal – HR functions for big players, Ovation Project – Claims system for work cover, NSW.☞ Achievements: managed distributed dev teams in London, Manchester, India and Sydney. Pre-sales pitch to clients in UK and Australia. Effective appraisals / performance reviews/PDRs.

Geneva, Switzerland, Ch

✰ Lead development team to deliver java/j2ee solutions.

Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, In

✰ Software developer - Desktop (VB) and web apps (Java)

Bachelor Of Technology, Computer Technology

Mba, Systems