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SUMMARY

My passion is to be part of the digital future and use my creativity to build tools that make a difference. Making the career switch into technology almost 8 years back has been the best career decision I have made, enabling me to work in some amazing teams and delivering great outcomes. I currently work as an engineering manager in the Internet and Business Banking domains of NAB and have worked on quite a few high volume, high impact projects.

I also have an entrepreneurial background spanning over 6 years through which I posses a skill set in working with and mentoring teams and drive innovation in the hospitality industry.

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

Engineering Manager

Aug 2021Current
National Australia Bank, Melbourne, Australia

Currently working as an engineering manager in the Internet Banking domain managing 2 squads

  • Delivery of the uplift of the underlying Internet Banking framework which involved moving us away from out 25 year old legacy monolith shell to a more modern strategic version aligning with the enterprise standards
  • Delivery of Mobile login uplift which was a security driven project to tighten up the mobile login process through event driven micro services, impacting millions of logins every day
  • Managing over 12 direct report across teams which includes engineers, testers and business analysts
  • Mentoring and guiding the team to do and learn better everyday
  • Experience in managing multiple teams
  • Delivering outcomes for the UI and backend uplift of the widely used transaction history application
  • Delivering outcomes in managing maintenance and uplift work across the platform
  • Enabling team members to perform efficiently and create a safe, fun and inclusive work environment
  • Managing team member performance through goal setting and individual  development plans
  • Stake holder engagement for projects and managing expectations
  • Good understanding of a product life cycle
  • Providing technical input in solutions
  • Overseeing and co ordinating regular deployments

Full Stack Developer

Jan 2019August 2021
National Australia Bank, Melbourne, Australia

Worked as a senior analyst engineer in the NAB Internet banking platform.

  • Promoted to senior engineer after 9 months
  • Part of a highly collaborative and cross functional team
  • Write clean, testable, secure and reusable code
  • Documentation of work done
  • Experience in working with React
  • Create fortnightly sprint reports
  • Mentor junior and mid level developers
  • Contribution to NAB's internal open source
  • Provide technical input on solutions
  • Cross team/channel collaboration
  • GraphQl - Apollo client in the front-end(we also use this as our primary state management tool)
  • Back end experience in Node Js
  • GraphQl - Apollo server in the back end as a micro service aggregation layer
  • Heavy unit/e2e testing with RTL, enzyme, jest and testCafe
  • Familiarity with modern front-end tools and workflows (npm, yarn, gulp, grunt, webpack, GIT)
  • Knowledge in building accessible multi browser compatible web pages
  • Log monitoring with splunk
  • Working knowledge in CI/CD of micro services 
  • Experience with AWS
  • Limited experience with JAVA - spring and KAFKA event streaming

Front End Developer

Sept 2017Jan 2019
Australia Post, Melbourne, Australia
  • Experience in working in Angular(1x and 6)/NGRX with and communicating with APIs
  • Experience in working with statically typed javaScript(TypeScript)
  • Knowledge in building responsive and beautiful UI's
  • Excellent knowledge of testing solutions (Karma, Protractor, Jasmine)
  • Experience in one of Australia's leading agile trains(Certified SAFe 4 Practitioner)
  • Solid understanding of development best practises, patterns and principles

Full Stack Developer (CodeMaster Scholarship)

Aug 2018Aug 2018
Myagi, San Fransisco, USA

I was awarded the code master scholarship for graduating top of my class at Coder Academy and got to intern with Myagi at their San Fransisco office for a month. I delivered a key feature for them during my time there mostly working in the front end using React and React Native. I also got the opportunity to get a taste of their back end using Python(Django).

Intern Web Application Developer

Aug 2017Aug 2017
Australia Post, Melbourne, Australia

I interned at Aus Post as a web app developer upon completion of my IT diploma.

  • Exposure to various aspects of working in an agile environment
  • Working on production code in es6 modules  and Angular applications
  • Exposure to micro services and continuous integration
  • Deployment to AWS platforms

Education in Programming (Diploma in IT )

Feb 2017July 2017
Coder Academy, Melbourne, Australia

My education in programming started as early as July 2016, but I received my formal education from Coder Academy in a fully immersive full stack programming curriculum.

  • Graduated top of my class and awarded a 1 month scholarship in San Fransisco
  • Gained strong understanding of programming concepts
  • Learnt 2 different programming languages - Ruby and JavaScript
  • Knowledge of designing User Interfaces using Sketch and Figma
  • Gained exposure to frameworks such as Node, React & Rails
  • Exposure to TDD/BDD  - Rspec, Jasmine, &Mocha  
  • Working with SQL(MySQL, Postgres) and NoSQL(MongoDB, FireBase)

Service Manager

Sept 2016Dec 2016
Mama's Buoi group of restaurants

Mama's Buoi is a trendy Vietnamese restaurant chain owned by the Roll'd Australia group.  I worked here as a service  manager for 3 months prior starting to my programming course.

  • Oversaw the launch of Mama's Buoi flagship store in the Chadstone dining precinct
  • Managed every aspect of operations in front of house, bar and financial reporting
  • Underwent a 2 week manager training program after which I recruited and trained over 25 staff

Founder/Owner/Operator/Financial Manager

Dec 2010Aug 2016
RDV Holdings Pty Ltd, Adelaide, Australia

CHOCOLATREE I December 2010 - August 2016

With a turnover of over $1.5 Million Chocolatree is an award winning market leader in the dessert cafe industry

SWEET AS BAKERY PATISSERIE I September 2013 - August 2016

Sweet as Bakery specialises in preparation and wholesale supply of Petit Gateaux, Cakes and handmade chocolates to local Adelaide cafes

HOLY GUACAMOLY/POCO PICANTE I December 2013 - October 2015

A successful Mexican Quick Service Restaurant providing fresh, exciting and quick food

COFFYLOSOPHY I March 2014 - March 2015

A very popular boutique café specialising in house brewed coffee, breakfast, brunch and lunch

My role involved but not limited to:

  • Business set up and multi-store operations
  • B2B sales and maintaining Vendor relationships
  • Sales increase and growth
  • Team building, leadership & mentoring                                         
  • Budgeting, cost control, accounting and financial reporting
  • Quality control and assurance

Junior Auditor /Assistant Accountant

Jan 2008Nov 2010
Accounting & Business Consulting Pty Ltd, Adelaide, Australia

Accounting & business consulting is a mid size public practice based in Adelaide. I had secured a graduate position as a junior accountant and auditor after my masters degree. 

  • Administered new and existing accounts in the Practice Manager software program by invoicing, maintaining, preparation of end of year financial accounts and PAYG statements for clients
  • Preparing and lodging quarterly BAS for clients
  • Assisted senior accountants in various trust account audits

EDUCATION

Diploma of Information Technology

2017 - Coder Academy

Melbourne, Australia

Master of Business (Accounting)           

2005 - 2007 University of South Australia

Adelaide, Australia

Bachelor of Business (Management)

 2002 - 2005 Bharathiyar University

Coimbatore, India

ACHIEVEMENTS & CONTRIBUTIONS

  • Successfully changed careers to become a programmer
  • Volunteer at local meetups and teach/mentor budding  programmers
  • Successfully set up 4 businesses within 6 years
  • Won multiple accreditions for chocolate making in the Royal Adelaide and Melbourne food awards
  • Maintained a negligible attrition rate in all businesses
  • Set up a chocolate kiosk at Westfield Marion over Christmas periods
  • Chocolatree has been also been part of the Adelaide fringe festival as a vendor
  • Supported the local community by funding/sponsoring important social causes
  • Completed BUPA challenge(long distance cycling) 3 years in a row 
  • Played cricket at school, University & club levels

REFERENCES

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