Brought on board to oversee the Roadmap and projects identified during initial consultancy to reach key sales and OKR takes in preparation for raising investments.Achievements- Hired an internal software team to take over from the outsourced team within three months- Consolidated all company source code into GitLab, helping the team consolidate tools and reducing overall company spend- Consolidate all issue management into a GitLab dashboard. Including ticket labels, weighting, assignment, tracking, and roll-up into sprint dashboards. Providing the business with a single location to view engineering progress- Developed a CI/CD pipeline with GitLab, automating testing and deployment, increasing the team's throughput, delivery, and quality- Consolidated all application infrastructure onto AWS, ensuring all infrastructure is tracked through source control with an approval process for changes- Platform search enhancement using AWS OpenSearch. Increasing speed and quality of results, providing a better user experience with an impact of increased MAU and user job applications- Integrated third-party community portal, replacing an existing internal product. Increased engineering focus on core business value. Increased overall community engagement by ~500%- Replaced application authentication with Auth0, standardizing authentication and removing passwords and other PII from our data. Opened up enterprise sales channels by providing authentication SAML and OAuth. - Worked with Product to develop our Software Development Lifecycle. Including ticket management, development workflows, quality metrics, bug tracking and reporting, and the development of a prioritization framework- Introduced best practices and processes to increase team focus and business value delivery. Including team sprints, velocity team learning sessions, code review, testing, test-driven development

Consultancy role in reviewing current technology, team, and processes with the aim of building confidence for leadership and investors in the company's ability to scale.Achievements- Worked with leadership to identify key performance indicators for technology and product- Worked with the Data team to develop a RoadMap for Data Engineering and Warehousing- Developed a 6-12 month hiring plan to bring Product and Engineering internally- Outline critical processes, practices, and standards for quality software development- Identified critical technical debt preventing the team and technology to scale- Overall code review of code bases to identify potential risks to scale and growth

This is a side project with friends to keep up hands-on technical skills whilst building a product from the ground up in an enjoyable space.Developed IoT-enabled smart barrel for spirit maturation from concept to shipped physical product. Worked with founders on marketing, investor pitches, company and product branding, working to build a company from the ground up to officially ship the world's first smart electric barrel.Technical Achievements- Developed three versions of the device firmware, from Raspberry PI to microcontroller architecture, reducing product cost by $40 per unit- Developed device registration and provision system using Bluetooth and AWS IoT, allowing scale for the development and shipping of devices- Utilized AWS infrastructure to build the backbone platform device control, monitoring, and reporting- Developed React Native application to allow end users to register, provision, and operate their devices. - Approval of Mobile applications with both Apple and Google Play stores- Development of a Shopify storefront to allow company branding and selling of productsTechnologiesAWS (Lambda, IoT Core, IoT Shadows, API Gateway, Dynamodb, SQS, SNS), Node.Js, Typescript, React Native, React, Python, Terraform, EPS32, Mongoose OS, Raspberry PI, Docker, Bluetooth

Worked with the founder to lead all technical aspects of the company including technology, staffing, and budgets.Achievements- Identified Enterprise product concept, innovating on core D2C products and white-labeling for the high-end luxury retail sales force and personal shoppers.- Took enterprise product from concept to sellable MVP in less than 6 months- Developed the company's first mobile application enabling clients to interact directly with their stylists increasing overall user interaction and stylists' monthly earnings.

A role that involved the development of tooling and data infrastructure in supporting the Data Scientists in their consultancy, building internal data infrastructure for company products, and serving as interim VP of Engineering roles for Mercury's clients.Achievements- Development of the company's first SaaS Data science platform, an Natural Language based platform for data insights for drug development and target validation- Consult with Mercury's portfolio, primarily early-stage startups, on data architecture, engineering, and steps required to leverage Machine Learning and AI technologies- Introduced Cloud-based tooling to the Data Science team, including AWS ECS, Athena, Lambda to help reduce overall cost, allow for scale-out compute for large data science model- Worked with the Data Science team to help ensure their solution would scale to meet client growth expectations and budgets- Worked with the Data Science team across multiple projects to bring better software development practices into the organizationScaling of Data Science compute-heavy and memory-intensive solutions leveraging Cloud Services on AWS (S3, Fargate, Lambda, and Glue/Spark) reduce job from days to hours.

Established a DataOps (Data Practice and Operations) culture at Label Insight through adopting lessons learned from DevOps.Challenged existing manual processes to aid the adoption of automation through defining workflows and leveraging orchestration. Oversaw the application of machine learning to remove subjectivity, decrease costs, and increase overall data quality.Leveraged AWS cloud expertise (S3, Glue, Athena, and Lambda) for quick impact while also allowing for scale. Cultivated Data Engineering best practices through the adoption of industry-leading open source solutions including Python, Jupyter Notebooks, Spark and Terraform.

Answered the technical and cultural challenges of growth through multiple funding rounds. Leading the technical team through 6x growth while assuring foundation engineering culture and best practices remained intact.Cultivated an engineering culture based on industry best practices, including adopting TDD, SOLID Principles, CI, and CD. Drove the DevOps initiative to migrate to AWS and Google Cloud Platform cloud services.This involved introducing modern development practices, including TDD, CI, CD, Infrastructure as Code, Cloud Computing, Event Driven Architecture, Event Storming, Evolutionary Architecture, Data Science, Data Engineering, and Cross-Functional Teams.TechnologiesJava, Spring, Spring Boot, MySql, ElasticSearch, AWS, React, Drools, Event-Driven Design, JavaScript

Guide development teams on application design and integrations across ~10 sprint teams and ~4 development projects, ensuring solutions scale to meet growing demand and expected delivery timelines. Collaborated across teams to gain alignment without a direct reporting relationship ensuring solutions were scalable, integrated across projects, and deliverable.

Providing a front door to North American Automotive Dealerships Lead/Customer Management Systems.Specializing in integrating cross platform systems (Java, .Net) using a combination of web and message based infrastructure. Reducing the impact of industry manufacturers lead performance requirements on internal CRM systems to allowing them to focus on their core domain.Spring (AOP, Integration, MVC, Data), Java, C#, .Net, NServiceBus, JMS, ActiveMQ, MSMQ, SOAP, POX, EIPCrafted the next generation of SaaS based Lead Management System for the North American Automotive market. Provided a streamlined intuitive workflow interface to improve salespeople performance whilst reducing the cost of installation and support for ADP.JQuery (Mobile), Drools, Spring (AOP, Integration, Batch, Data, MVC), ActiveMQ, JMS, MOA,

* Provide technical leadership for eBusiness projects.* Mentoring senior and junior developers.* Develop and review the solution architecture of new projects.* Develop and review the technical design of new projects.* Design of system components and integration with other systems.* Perform design reviews and code reviews of system components.

Lead Developer for a major redevelopment project for a state wide system that facilitates the electronic exchange of information between justice system agencies. Governmental agencies impacted included NSW Police, Australian Federal Police, Commonwealth and NSW Offices of the Director of Public Prosecutions.Java, Struts, Hibernate, PostgreSQL, Javascript, CSS, HTML, MVCExtension of existing Lawcodes application to provide for additional recording of new ABS offense classifications. Reverse engineer a number of SAS scripts used to provided data integrity into an automated nightly batch job.Java, Spring, Struts, SAS, PostgreSQL