David Schoen Email & Phone Number

Strangways, VIC, AU

Remote

Managing a split role between transitioning back to the application team, SRE duties and hand over of the platform, I have moved back to the application team to fill out a gap in backend capabilities. This is a small team managing an ancient, large and complex code base - the problems to solve are challenging and diverse as we “strangle the monolith”.

Squiz started an SRE team of product and platform engineers on rotation between their regular work and SRE work. I participated effectively as a part time SRE, gaining a base understanding of how the SRE approach to monitoring means focusing on what the customer cares about, not what might “knock the system offline”.

Remote

• I became the de facto Lead Engineer for the Squiz Matrix product team. I was offered the role, but remained acting. With my second child on the way and having never previously been in a high functioning team (let alone.
• Reduced time to release from weeks to hours
• Shared siloed knowledge amongst whole team
• Introduced pull request code reviews
• Introduced code guidelines
• Improved test practices

Remote

I transitioned on to the Squiz Matrix product team. This was my first role on a development team where the team worked on the same code base. Prior to this I did a lot of software development, but rarely with someone else working on the same code base as me.

Remote

I moved from Melbourne to North Central Victoria in 2014. My manager was supportive of transitioning my role to working remotely. Squiz at the time did not have regular work from home or remote staff so this was an experiment for myself and a gamble that paid off for Squiz.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Recognising the value of the development I was doing geographically separate to the Squiz Labs office (at the time, Squiz’s development team) a new role was created to allow me to focus on software development for.
• Built Squiz Refresh, an automation tool for upgrades to support reliably reproducible upgrades between test/production environments and allowing sufficient customisation when required for Squiz’s bespoke Matrix instances
• Numerous client specific small development projects

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• I joined Squiz in a Systems Administrator role because it allowed me to move from Canberra to Melbourne. My personal goal was to introduce the content migration tooling and general automation practices I’d developed at.
• Managed complex, bespoke clusters for large clients
• Assisted with recruitment, selection and training of new Systems Administrators
• Trained client System Administrators
• Worked closely with sales, including presenting technical aspects of our solutions to client boards
• Found a lot of critical security issues and helped resolve them

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

• I started with the task of testing content migration scripting Squiz was building for Immigration, but took over the development of the scripts themselves and automating the bulk of many large (up to 17k page) content.
• Forking Squiz Matrix to add static publishing to support the scalability required on the public facing websites
• Engineering a repository structure and related processes to support integrating upstream changes of Squiz Matrix into our forked version reliably
• Multiple software and hardware upgrades of server clusters
• Developing Matrix to Matrix migration tooling (became Squiz Mirror)
• Automate the build of multiple development, testing, training, staging and production environments

Palmerston, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

• I was hired for system administration of a fairly conventional Microsoft teachers network and a Terminal Services students network supporting roughly 450 students.At around this time multimedia rich educational.
• Automated so much of my job that a few interested primary school children were able to learn to do most of my remaining job
• Facilitate early trails of interactive whiteboards
• Teaching assistance
• Professional Assault Response Training
• Migrating beloved interactive stories, that the librarian had authored, from a static website into Squiz Matrix