Senior Engineer

Senior Engineer - Backend

Identity and authentication platform • May 2022 - Present

• Re-built and deployed application to run in new geographical region to better serve U.S. customers
• Templated application to make it truly multi-region, paving way for deployment in 3 additional global regions
• Oversaw build and releases of SDKs used to integrate with platform
• Initiated and led design and development of Enterprise authentication features (SAML/EntraID), greatly improving security posture for customers
• Developed audit logging capability within product to increase observability of security-sensitive actions for customers
• Led design and development of entire billing platform enabling customers to easily bill their own customers without writing a single line of code
• Contributed across stack to improve/rebuild internal analytics, data pipelines and deployment pipelines

Principal Engineer - Cloud, Data and APIs

Analytics technology company • January 2021 - April 2022

• Owned tech strategy and evaluated which technology to use for implementing products, platforms and other initiatives
• Participated in overall planning of work for technical teams and collaborated with Product Managers, providing advice and guidance on feasibility of requested features
• Mentored other engineers and continually sought to improve engineering tooling, standards and practices across all technical streams
• Designed and built features/sub-features serving as references or bootstrap implementations for upcoming features
• Drove refactoring exercises to improve architecture and implementation of existing features
• Developed and implemented tools and practices to maintain expected functionality, performance and scalability of existing applications

Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform and Services

Financial services company • January 2020 - December 2020

• Redesigned and developed bulk data hydration pipeline that halved time to move and transform 10s of millions of records between systems
• Designed and developed data pipelines and dashboards to compare functional performance of legacy customer matching system and new customer record linkage system
• Contributed to development of near real-time customer record linkage system ensuring no duplicate customer records across organisation
• Designed and developed several data pipelines and data models to support personalised rewards programme for credit card customers
• Designed and developed data pipelines that greatly improved timeliness of email communications to personal loan customers

Technologies: Python, Snowflake, Kafka Connect, AWS ElasticSearch, Apache Airflow, AWS ECS, Kafka (MSK)

DevOps Engineer

Cloud and DevOps consultancy • April 2018 - December 2019

• Created and maintained continuous deployment pipelines built on Jenkins and Octopus Deploy for Sitecore CMS implementation
• Developed proof of concept to validate use of Kubernetes as platform to run applications using AWS EKS and AWS RDS
• Worked on proof of concept to validate use of AWS Data Services (Glue, Athena, Redshift and RDS) to replace on-premise data warehouses
• Developed CI/CD pipeline to enable R-Shiny applications to be quickly and efficiently deployed to production Kubernetes environment
• Designed and implemented solution gathering AWS security logs in real-time from multiple AWS accounts and streaming through Kinesis into centralised log aggregation product
• Implemented NoSQL data store to store meta-data about all existing AWS accounts and provided publishing interface for account creation process

Senior Consultant

Global IT consulting firm • May 2011 - March 2018

• Designed and built automated scripts using PowerShell to deploy ETL jobs to SQL Server Integration Services and migrate financial data using agile processes
• Wrote custom wrappers around Pivotal's Trilogy database testing tool for integration into Jenkins pipelines to automatically test transformed data in Oracle database
• Architected forward-thinking design to change flat relational database into unstructured graph data store capable of consuming and storing data from variety of sources
• Contributed to vision and direction of converting geocoded national address file (GNAF) into product for aggregating and matching variety of datasets
• Responsible for design of data interfaces during implementation of large collection system

Consultant

Technology consulting firm • October 2007 - April 2011

• Designed and implemented data migration processes and solutions for live migration of large data mart, including metadata migration
• Designed medium-scale end-to-end data extraction and transformation middleware solution
• Effectively managed inter-team communications for provisioning, design and development of interfaces for 15 source data providers

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