Ryan West Email & Phone Number

New South Wales, Australia

➤ Senior engineer tasked with designing, developing and delivering java microservices for the wealth management industry.➤ Full stack development, building frontends with React and Typescript and Java backends based upon the Micronaut framework.➤ Devops lead, helping to maintain and improve the build and deployment pipeline (including Gitlab, TeamCity, Sonarqube, Rancher, Azure and AWS) and working with a community of practice to proactively identify ways to enhance the developer experience.➤ Representing and promoting the organisation at external events.

Melbourne, Australia

➤ Leading projects at NAB, working in an agile dev team to design and build new Spring Boot microservices in the Account Management and Open Banking spaces.➤ Delivering new microservices into production, via Blue Ocean onto AWS (ECS, EC2, EFS, SQS and S3) and fronted by Kong.➤ Building a suite of modern services to integrate both customer and banker front end systems with older mainframe architectures with the goal of replacing monolithic architectures.➤ Providing advice on technical aspects of system development and API design and integration.➤ Leading client projects, from initial pre-sales through to consulting and delivery. Identifying appropriate design standards, methods and tools, consistent with agreed enterprise and solution architectures.➤ Assisting clients with the selection of appropriate solutions and tooling and approaches through research and POCs and improving company-wide architecture & cloud engineering practices and techniques.

➤ Leading the design and development of new Java 8 event-driven (via Kafka) microservice components for the enterprise within an agile delivery team, to break down and replace ageing monolithic financial systems.➤ Owning application build and deployment pipelines, working with Jenkins, XL Release, OpenShift and Apigee to delivering incremental production releases on a regular cycle.➤ Technical Lead for an in-house integration platform, linked to a variety of data sources and formats. Guiding decisions on the optimal infrastructure, technologies and toolsets to be used for creation of the platform based upon industry trends and best practices.➤ Promoting high quality consistent code by code reviews, sharing of best practices and introduction of dev tools such as code quality/formatting/coverage plugins and test automation.➤ Mentoring junior members of the team, including graduate placements and apprentices.➤ Leading and coordination relationships with various supporting teams, such as database and networks.➤ Proactively finding opportunities to drive efficiency within the team, including upskilling colleagues.➤ Driving awareness of the team’s technical capabilities to internal parties from across the globe to help bring more partners on board and enhance the platform.➤ Developing rapid POCs to prove feasibility of new ideas and secure product funding.➤ Promoting the reputation of the Amex org and brand within the community via participation in activities including student work experience days and charity events.

➤ Leading development for a variety of in-house Java web applications backed by SQL server databases.➤ Integration of Capita’s systems with multiple 3rd Party systems (Payroll, CV parsing, Timesheets, Reporting etc)➤ Liaising with the various businesses within the Capita Group on a regular basis to discuss how their software could be used more effectively and what new features I would recommend.➤ Maintaining the application servers, installing new updates and patches when required, carrying out DB maintenance and reviewing the system integrity checks.➤ Running data imports to the SQL databases from 3rd party sources.➤ Designing and creating real time MI visualisation dashboards, used by leadership and displayed in large office screens across the organisation.➤ Maintaining a record of all work carried out for each business system and retaining copies of source code revisions using Subversion.➤ Producing monthly detailed management reports on any system downtime and critical issues

➤ Development of Bond’s core Java based recruitment system to client specific requirements.➤ Integration of Bond’s system with various 3rd party packages using both BizTalk and writing custom data integration layers (Sage Payroll & Line 50, Safe and Job Boards).➤ Providing onsite support to clients for custom configuration, to oversee live implementations and also for Data Cleansing and import exercises.➤ Meeting with both potential and established external clients to discuss their requirements and advise on the best possible solutions Bond could offer.➤ Producing both functional and technical specification documents and quotes based upon client requirements.