Principal Software Engineer

At VTS we have a developed an energy platform; ingesting, processing and analysing energy data at scale, it provides insights and capability to help support de-carbonisation, renewable energy sources and electrification of transport. We provide an integrated meter data management / network data visibility / operational support system, in use with millions of meters across New Zealand and Australia.

• One of two Principals, leading six development teams and 40 developers.
• Architecture, design, planning, standards, documentation.
• Problem solving, investigations, incident management.
• Co-development with AWS (VTS/AWS alliance - some bespoke products, not yet publicly available.)
• Evaluations, proof of concepts, releases, deployment orchestration and decommissioning.

Vector Technology Solutions

Technical Lead

• Built the foundations for the VTS Diverge platform.
• Managed support and testing, and ran a 4-month “parallel run” : production data forwarded into both the legacy system and the new platform, for functional and stress testing.
• Set up the documentation structure and standards; built monitoring and logging; wrote runbooks for the alerts and various investigations.

Vector Technology Solutions

Senior Software Developer

• Multiple microservices, integrating various University systems with the new student management system Haplo via Kafka.
• Java/Spring Boot, Jenkins, ECS, Kibana for logs, Grafana for dashboards.

Auckland University

Senior Software Developer

• Microservices and applications for the MessageMedia (SMS integration) platform.
• High quality environment: detailed code quality, style, and unit testing, extensive integration tests, multiple stacks.

MessageMedia

Vice President, Engineering

• Big-data analytics for museums and galleries.
• Java front-end (Vaadin), Python back-end (data pipelines)
• Ticketing, visitor-tracking (wifi), data science for predicting revenue, sentiment analysis for reviews

Dexibit

Mobile Team Lead

• Mobile development for a large multi-application, multi-tenanted financial services company.
• System Team : feature integration, tier 3 support

Fiserv