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Technical leader with extensive knowledge and experience in the area of mobile applications, web applications & agile software development. Having worked in established organisations as well as startups, I have helped teams scale and implement scalable software solutions in a variety of well known companies such as SoundCloud & ThoughtWorks. I have extensive experience at applying practices...

Technical leader with extensive knowledge and experience in the area of mobile applications, web applications & agile software development. Having worked in established organisations as well as startups, I have helped teams scale and implement scalable software solutions in a variety of well known companies such as SoundCloud & ThoughtWorks. I have extensive experience at applying practices such as continuous delivery, automation, testing and software metric driven engineering concepts to help build and grow teams while still allowing for iterative development and agility. With a keen interest in mobile technologies, I have spent close to 10 years working on building world class mobile applications that service millions of users and currently lead the mobile engineering efforts at Issuu, a digital publishing platform with over 85 million active users and tens of millions of publications.Senior Engineering Manager @ From September 2015 to Present (4 months) Amsterdam Area, NetherlandsDirector of Mobile Engineering @ Head of engineering for the mobile application teams helping the team scale their processes and structure as mobile became the most important platform for SoundCloud with two thirds of listening happening on mobile. Worked closely with stakeholders to devise engineering strategy for the mobile engineering teams and overall end to end mobile system architecture to ensure long term success with a focus on improving the playback performance, analytics, testing & development practices, build pipelines among other areas. Adopted many engineering focused concepts such as continuous delivery, build pipelines, test driven development & metrics driven engineering to measure and enable improvement of the performance and quality of the mobile clients. Led modernisation efforts of the SoundCloud mobile applications to make them one of the most popular music clients in the world by revamping the iOS & Android applications to focus on the listening experience and moving towards a multiple applications strategy. Helped set up the foundations and structure required for the continued growth and scale of the mobile teams and introduced many agile practices to help improve predictability & productivity of engineers. Kicked off initiatives to reduced overhead of development efforts across all our mobile clients by adopting native cross platform techniques in software components. From March 2013 to January 2015 (1 year 11 months) Berlin Area, GermanySenior Developer Consultant @ Transformed organisations and software development teams to adopt agile software development practices and solve technically challenging problems to help them scale. Worked in the space of test and system automation, continuous integration and deployment, web and mobile application development for clients as well as helping individuals and teams be the best they can be in numerous countries spanning industries including education and real estate as well as government departments. From November 2010 to March 2013 (2 years 5 months) Mobile Applications Development @ Development of Mobile Graphics Engine for UI3, VivoMoco and MoxieCo for the use in the delivery of digital content, advertising and marketing applications (J2ME & IPhone platforms) Completed prototype implementation of Aconex IPhone application using Aconex External API's From September 2005 to March 2013 (7 years 7 months) Melbourne, AustraliaSenior Software Engineer @ From September 2009 to November 2010 (1 year 3 months) Software Engineer @ Providing technical guidance and implementation of software components and functionality for the Aconex web application with focus on the indexing (Lucene) sub system. Performance analysis and triage for production related issues. Profiling of software algorithms and performance bottlenecks within the application. Member of the Infrastructure and External services division (Clustering, searching & indexing sub-system, service layer software components) From September 2007 to September 2009 (2 years 1 month) Melbourne, AustraliaSoftware Engineer @ Working in the area of security (Cryptography, C/C++) Implementation of public/private key cryptographic algorithms and automated test harness software for the verification of security related software. R&D in the area of Mobile Applications From October 2005 to December 2006 (1 year 3 months) Adelaide, AustraliaTelcommunications/Software Engineer @ Services engineer in the wireline division Lead Software Developer for AutoSys From February 2006 to September 2006 (8 months) Melbourne, AustraliaSoftware Engineering (First Class Honours), Computer Science @ University of South Australia From 2002 to 2006