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Jimmy

/ˈdʒɪmi/

Informal • Australian

Noun

A software engineer / leader from down under with 8+ years of experience across a variety of industries and technologies.

Integrated with every layer of the stack, infrastructure, database, backend, frontend, CI / CD to APM.

Multidisciplinary 'hat wearer' from requirements, design, development, testing through to support.

Adjective

Passionate – adept at translating technologies into tangible business value.
Dedicated – known for high standards of work and laser focus.
Supportive – always ready to coach, advise, and empower teammates.
Pragmatic – simple solutions for complex problems, without over-engineering.
Curious – lifelong learner, always hungry for knowledge.
Visionary – driven by big-picture thinking and strategic execution.
Dog-adoring – enthusiastic giver of pats.

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Education

2015 - 2019

4 years

GPA: 6.63 / 7

Bachelor of Science in Information Technology

maj. Enterprise Systems Development

Bachelor of Business

maj. Finance

Two time recipient of the prestigious UTS Dean's Merit List (2017, 2018) indicating top 10 students in the cohort

Proud three time receiver of the UTS Dean's List (2017, 2018, 2019) with weighted average mark greater than 85.

Experience

Ongoing

Aug 2024 - Present

Technical Lead

3 months (secondment)

Jul 2023 - Aug 2024

Senior Software Engineer

Rapidly integrated into a Ruby on Rails development team with no prior language experience.
Practiced domain driven design and requirements based testing.
Incrementally improved the onboarding experience while onboarding myself.

Technologies used

Ruby

Gitlab

PostgreSQL

1 year

Jul 2023 - Aug 2024

Senior Software Engineer

Completed financial modelling and technical implementation of an interest bearing product.
Revolutionised development, testing, system observability and overall engineering / product process.
Reduced deployment frequency from ad hoc to consistently weekly, reducing risk and time to customer.
Migrated from legacy Bitbucket to Github and configured full CI / CD pipelines.
Deprecated slow and complicated git-flow branching strategy to trunk based and up-skilled team.

Technologies used

Next JS

Typescript

Tailwind

Chromatic

Storybook

Figma

NodeJS

Docker

Lambda

Sentry

Logrocket

React Native

Expo

GitHub

2 years 4 months

Sep 2021 - Oct 2022

Technical Lead

Lead and mentored a team of 4 developers to work autonomously across all layers of the stack.
Worked closely with the CTO and Head of Engineering to significantly improve the product / engineering process.
Championed quality initiatives including improving testing strategy at every layer: unit, integration, acceptance, system and BDD (Gherkin).
Performed rigorous recruiting running interviews and technical tests with numerous candidates.

Jul 2020 - Aug 2021

Senior Software Engineer

Designed and architected a highly resilient and scalable distributed system responsible for processing rental payments in the magnitude of millions of dollars.
Worked on the core business system built on .Net Framework incrementally improving the quality of the legacy system.
Hosted brownbag sessions presenting to audiences of 30+ people including teaching the importance of contract testing across multiple teams.

Technologies used

.NET

Angular

RabbitMQ

Redis

MySQL

GitHub

Docker

Azure DevOps

Terraform

4 months (contract)

Jul 2018 - Aug 2019

Software Engineer / Consultant

Integrated with existing client teams to refine their practices and provide recommendations for better, more fluid development.
Worked closely with designers to develop their creative vision into tangible ReactJS and AngularJS software.
Explained advanced technical concepts (such as Terraform and Visual Diff Regression Testing) to colleagues in an easy to comprehend manner relating to all levels of the stack through pair programming and brownbags.

Technologies used

React

Angular

JavaScript

Java

2 years

Apr 2018 - Mar 2020

Lead Developer & Architect

Lead developer of greenfield architecture and deployment of AWS CloudFormation templates and infrastructure across multiple environments.
Lead back-end developer of RESTful APIs using ASP .Net Core 2.1 as containerised micro-services following clean architecture principles.
Developed and designed front-end website components in React for a state-of-the-art investment platform 'Bigstone Marketplace' and other internal applications.
Helped integrate agile workflows in Atlassian Jira to improve business efficiency, acting as both scrum-master and developer.
Assisted in building Microsoft SQL Server database schema and integrating Liquibase for migrations managed by continuous integration.
Built continuous integration and delivery systems across numerous git repositories through Bitbucket Pipelines with automated testing and deployments.
Collaborated efficiently in a team, growing the startup company, helping shape business process as well as outperforming expectations and requirements.
Designed scalable financial systems managing numerous multi-million-dollar investments with fractional repayments securely and accurately.
Responsible for training developers in cloud architecture, complicated design patterns and agile methodologies.

Technologies used

.NET

React

PostgreSQL

Bitbucket

AWS CloudFormation

AWS Lambda

AWS Api Gateway

AWS S3

AWS CloudWatch

AWS ECS

AWS Cloudfront

9 months (part-time)

Dec 2017 - Aug 2018

Full Stack Developer - Solo

Built a Windows Form application in .Net Core 3 used for leads management
Used DynamoDB, ApiGateway and Lambda to optimise for cost
Created data sanitisation pipelines to process data from many third parties in different formats

Technologies used

.NET

Bitbucket