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Amar P.

CTO

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia15 yrs 5 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • 15+ years in technology leadership roles
  • Expert in software engineering and cybersecurity
  • Proven track record in AI/ML integration
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS technology leader with extensive experience in software engineering and cybersecurity.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technology LeadershipSolution ArchitectureCloud ComputingSecurityAi/mlEngineering LeadershipProduct DevelopmentSystems Design

Other Skills

Chief ArchitectSentrySplunkDatadogCybersecurityData ArchitectureAIMachine LearningSoftware Performance MetricsComputer ScienceVendor ManagementLeading transformational changeAnalytical SkillsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Software as a Service (SaaS)

About

Results-driven, growth-oriented technology leader with over 15+ years of experience specializing in modern software engineering, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence/machine learning. Passionate about helping companies scale and achieve accelerated growth through strategic planning, efficient execution, and innovative solutions. Proven track record of working with diverse product teams in the USA, Australia, and UK to build cutting-edge applications that drive business transformation. A modern polymath with a unique blend of technical and leadership skills, adept at aligning technology strategies with business objectives, managing diverse teams, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation. As an experienced Technology leader, I am eager to join and lead a forward-thinking organization in designing and implementing industry-leading solutions that fuel business growth and success while creating an environment that nurtures talent and fosters collaboration.

Experience

15 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs
Average Tenure
3 yrs 7 mos
Current Experience

Localagentfinder

2 roles

Chief Technology Officer

Promoted

Dec 2023Present · 2 yrs 5 mos · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Hybrid

Head of Technology

Oct 2022Dec 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Hybrid

  • Key Outcomes:
  • 1. Spearheaded the implementation of the Observability stack using Sentry, Splunk, and Datadog, establishing robust monitoring practices.
  • 2. Authored and executed a comprehensive Cybersecurity policy and operational model, serving as the organization's security Subject Matter Expert (SME).
  • 3. Orchestrated the creation of a data platform architecture, harnessing our data assets to deliver meaningful insights.
  • 4. Devised an AI/ML strategy for the systematic integration of AI into our product offerings, services, and processes.
  • 5. As Chief Architect, laid the groundwork for future applications, services, and infrastructure, ensuring the company's technological robustness.
  • 6. Revitalised our engineering processes, implementing world-class software performance metrics.
  • Skills: Technology Leadership · Security · Cloud Computing · Solution Architecture · Engineering Leadership · Chief Architect · AI/ML
  • Key Responsibilities:
  • 1. Set the company's technological direction and implements strategic plans to achieve business goals.
  • 2. Lead, mentor, and build high-performing technology/product teams to drive innovation and productivity.
  • 3. Oversee all tech-related decisions, including infrastructure, architecture, and data security, ensuring sustainable growth and risk mitigation..
  • 4. As a Senior Management Team member, collaborate closely with the Board of Directors to align technological initiatives with business goals.
Technology LeadershipSecurityCloud ComputingSolution ArchitectureEngineering LeadershipChief Architect+1

Officeworks

2 roles

Solutions Architect

Promoted

Dec 2021Oct 2022 · 10 mos · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

  • Project: Customer Identity and Access Management
  • Clients: B2B, B2C and Internal teams
  • Outcomes:
  • Architected Event driven microservices architecture for migrating Customer Identity related data and services from IBM webcommerce tool impacting Officework’s 6 million customers.
  • Architected and introduced Auth0 based authentication patterns and system more secure services.
  • Introduced and architected the GraphQL BFF layer to streamline microfront ends in multiple delivery channels.
  • Lead the adoption of Typescript for improved developer productivity across 10 teams
  • Thought leadership on new event sourcing patterns and upliftment of the platform.
  • Adoption of SNYK for Static Analysis Security Testing
  • DevSecOps practices like secure coding.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Working with 10 delivery teams to empower them to build, design and innovate customer centric features
  • Ensuring systems are fit for purpose, well architected.
  • Maintaining platform health, ensuring that our systems are reliable, resilient and cost effective.
  • Driving a strong customer focus to ensure we are delivering great outcomes for our customers.
  • Growing the team’s technical capabilities through coaching and mentoring.
Computer ScienceVendor ManagementLeading transformational changeAnalytical SkillsEngineering LeadershipSolution Architecture+13

Technical Lead

Sep 2021Dec 2021 · 3 mos · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

  • Project: Customer Identity and Access Management
  • Clients: B2B, B2C and Internal teams
  • Outcomes:
  • Design and delivery of Auth0 based new Identity and Authentication mechanisim for users
  • Enabling security, resiliency and decoupling from IBM Webcommerce
  • Responsibilities:
  • Ensuring systems are fit for purpose, well architected.
  • Maintaining platform health, ensuring that our systems are reliable, resilient and cost effective.
  • Driving a strong customer focus to ensure we are delivering great outcomes for our customers.
  • Growing the team’s technical capabilities through coaching and mentoring.
Computer ScienceVendor ManagementLeading transformational changeAnalytical SkillsProduct DevelopmentSystems Design+8

Seek

2 roles

Technical Lead/ Principal Engineer

Apr 2018Sep 2021 · 3 yrs 5 mos

  • Project: Job Posting Experiences
  • Clients: Direct Hirers
  • Outcomes:
  • Architected event driven and microservice oriented architecture to decouple from 20-year-old monolith for Job Posting impacting all of Seek’s paid users.
  • New Job Posting single page app for Desktop users using REACT-Typescript Graph QL (Front End), Typescript -REST API (Back End) in AWS
  • Migrated 18 build pipelines from on premise Teamcity to AWS hosted dockerized buildkite pipelines
  • Online booking portal for Guaranteed Hire bookings using REACT (Front End), Golang (Back End) in AWS.
  • New Job Posting single page app for mobile users using REACT (Front End), Golang (Back End) in AWS.
  • Adoption of SNYK for Static Analysis Security Testing
  • DevSecOps practices like secure coding.
  • Responsibilities:
  • Contributing to SEEKs overall technology strategy and aligning systems with that strategy.
  • Ensuring systems are fit for purpose, well architected and follow current SEEK development practices.
  • Maintaining platform health, ensuring that our systems are reliable, resilient and cost effective.
  • Driving a strong customer focus to ensure we are delivering great outcomes for our customers.
  • Growing the team’s technical capabilities through coaching and mentoring.
Computer ScienceAnalytical SkillsProduct DevelopmentSystems DesignProcess EnhancementCommunication+4

Senior Engineer

Aug 2016Jul 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Project: Optimisation Stream
  • Clients: Advertisers/Hirers
  • Environment and software:
  • Microsoft Tech: MS Visual Studio, C#, SQL Server 2012
  • Cloud Computing: Serverless, Amazon Web Services, Lambda, SNS, SQS, Dynamo DB, Redis, Cloud Watch, API Gateway, Cloud formation, Docker
  • Testing tools: PACT, Selenium Web Driver, Selenium Grid, Galen, Appium, Mocha, Team city, Octopus deploy.
  • Misc: Microservices, React Js, Node js, Ecma Script 5(js), JIRA, Trello
  • Monitoring: Splunk, Data Dog, PRTG
  • Methodology: Agile (Scrum), DDT, BDD. TDD
  • Responsibilities:
  • Acting as backup Principal Developer in the team for product delivery, key decision making and stake holder management.
  • Help defining/designing architectures and linked tools/technology.
  • Defining unit testing strategy and helping developers with choice of tools and process.
  • Implemented Test automation solutions around Cloud Native Applications e.g. Serverless Testing Mythologies.
  • Switch roles with Principal Devs as per delivery requirements.
  • Thought and Technical leadership from inception to delivery of platform and process improvement initiatives.
  • Coaching and mentoring Developers in Delivery Practice.
Computer ScienceAnalytical SkillsProduct DevelopmentSystems DesignProcess EnhancementCommunication+4

Dst systems

Programme Automation Lead

Apr 2015Aug 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos · Melbourne Area, Australia

  • Project: Technical Digital Services Practice
  • Clients: Wealth management companies and funds.
  • Environment and software:
  • MS Visual Studio, VB.Net, C#, SQL Server 2012, TFS, GIT, Jira, Confluence
  • Testing tools:
  • Selenium Web Driver, Selenium Grid Automation, Mstest, Browser Stack, Appium, Jasmine, Selendoid, Specflow, Team city, Octopus deploy, Browser stack.
  • Methodology:
  • Agile (Scrum), Waterfall, DDT, BDD. TDD
  • Responsibilities:
  • Defining automation test strategy and choice of the automation testing tools
  • Defining unit testing strategy and helping develpoers with choice of tools and process.
  • Implemented Test automation framework for java script using Jasmine, Karma
  • and Grunt.
  • Implemented Continuous Integration capability in test automation project with TeamCity and Octopus Deploy for regular regression testing.
  • Managing and grooming Test Automation QA resources in 6 scrum teams in Australia
  • Managing and grooming Test Automation QA resources in 2 scrum teams in United Kingdom.
  • Acting as primary stakeholder of Quality in the product.
  • Single point of contact for the client engagement for quality and confidence in the product.
  • Creating and executing automation tests and test sets using MS Visual Studio, Selenium Web Driver, Appium.
  • Building and implementing Mobile Test Automation solutions with Appium tool for both Hybrid and Native Applications
  • Running automation regression tests, analyzing the results and producing comprehensive automation test results reports
  • Reviewing test specifications, creating test scripts.
  • Estimating and planning automation testing work.
  • Providing automation testing recommendation and solutions for the different projects
  • Writing test data generation scripts for the automation and manual testing.
  • Writing documentation for new automation testers training.
Computer ScienceAnalytical SkillsCommunicationProblem Solving

Sensis

Automation Consultant

Mar 2015Apr 2015 · 1 mo · Melbourne, Australia

  • through: Amdocs
  • Test Analyst at Sensis,I am involved in testing their SaaS based application
  • Key responsibilities:
  • Attending workshops for business requirements review and planning
  • Requirement gathering and analysis for prioritizing them with the development team for the releases
  • Designing of Test Scenarios, creation of Test Cases, creation of Orthogonal matrix
  • Reviewing the Test Scenarios against the traceability matrix for test coverage and correctness
  • Attending stand up meetings everyday
  • Attending everyday defect triage meetings
  • Test Automation for the WebServices and Responsive Web Application.
  • Coordinating with offshore for Test Planning, Test Design and Test Execution
  • Coordinating with BA and Product Owners for inputs on defect/New requirements and Change Requests
  • Training session to the business users for the new application
  • Team Member of Continuous Improvement Team for testing quick wins.
  • Using QC Test Design, Test Planning, Test Execution, Requirements Mapping, Defect Management and Reporting
  • Using Jira for understanding User Stories, logging defects and reporting on the test status against user stories.
  • Functional Testing on applications which are based on Salesforce.
  • Designing and Maintaining Activity Libraries in QC.
Computer ScienceAnalytical SkillsCommunicationProblem Solving

Infosys

2 roles

Technology Analyst

Jul 2014Mar 2015 · 8 mos

  • Primary:
  • OSS Telecom domain/ Business Analyst
  • Lead development
  • Lead Test Automation
  • Status updates for legacy and current project
  • Strong Java and Scripting
  • Agile testing and development (Scrum).
  • Test data creation/verification using Databases (SQL)
  • Research and analysis of new software technologies.
  • Involvement:
  • Requirements Gathering
  • Selenium UI automation
  • REST/SOAP development and Test Automation
  • Constantly self-teach and mentor the team.
  • Coordinating developers, testers and stake holders.
  • Responsive Web Design based UI development and Testing.
  • TECHNICAL SKILLS:
  • Languages: JAVA+Groovy, jQuery
  • Database Management: Oracle 11g
  • Operating System: Windows 8.1, Mac OS X 10.9
  • Development Platforms: SOAP, REST, Java script, HTML5, CSS3
  • Frameworks: Selenium – Webdriver, Cucumber, Android, Protractor, Spring
  • Tools: Eclipse, Soap UI, HP QC, Maven, Jenkins, Toad, SVN, Putty, Clear Quest, Toad, testing, Jira, Crucible
Computer ScienceAnalytical SkillsCommunicationProblem Solving

Senior System Engineer

Mar 2011Jun 2014 · 3 yrs 3 mos

Computer ScienceCommunicationProblem Solving

At&t

4 roles

Frontend Web Developer

Dec 2013Mar 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Worked as Frontend Web Developer on the transition of the current desktop based web app to a flexible Mobile friendly application using Responsive Web Design methodology.
Computer Science

web services Developer

Dec 2012Mar 2015 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • REST development in Jersey & Tomcat, in support of SAP integration
  • SAPJCO in support of SAP integrationWeb services for internal and external customers utilizing REST and SOAP.
  • Refactored and Improved BDD in Cucumber using Groovy, provided full regression suite for REST and SOAP services
Computer Science

Test Automation Specialist

Apr 2012Mar 2015 · 2 yrs 11 mos

  • WebServices Test automation using Cucumber and Groovy in a Scrum/Agile project and SME level knowledge.
  • Selenium webdriver based End to End Ui test automation.
  • Added TestNG Support based on Page object Patterns to test suite.
  • Integrated Cucumber- Groovy based automation framework with Selenium2 to create an End to End test automation framework.
Computer Science

Quality Assurance Analyst

Feb 2012May 2012 · 3 mos

  • Test Planning, Designing, management and regression. Handled individual projects in MYATT & managed all activities while adhering to AT&T's and Infosys’s Process
Computer Science

Nordstrom

Android Developer/ Test Automation

Aug 2011Jan 2012 · 5 mos

  • Worked on Nordstrom Android Retail application and performed Test automation using Robotium

Infoway it solutions

Frontend Web Developer

Aug 2010Feb 2011 · 6 mos

  • ERP Web application for local Health care domain.

Education

Swami Vivekananda Institute Of Science And Technology

Bachelor's degree — Computer Science

Jan 2006Jan 2010

B.B.M.B.D.A.V Public School

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