Accenture New Zealand

Senior Software Engineer

nib Group

Design, build and configure applications to meet business process and application requirements on Nib's strategic programmes in the areas of insurance claims, assessments and entitlements

Tech stack:
- .NET (EF)
- AWS (serverless: lambda, api gateway, event bridge, SAM, ECS)
- Postgres
- Graphql
- Sumologic

Highlights:
- Resolved critical database connection issues accross dozens of step functions and lambdas
- Resolved integrations issues with a legacy claims system
- Remediated impacted production data as result of incidents
- Notable reduction in the number of production issues and alerting
- Bolster the testing coverage and quality of tests in areas prone to errors
- Delivered a complex recalculation process around insurance claim excess amounts

Software Engineer (vendor)

Heartland Bank LTD

Revamping their customer banking documents system by integrating with major collection of web services.

Highlights:
- Delivered a major collection of well-tested web services for the purpose reliably serving customer data out of a core banking platform
- Integrated document platform and its documents with those new web services
- Upgraded and modernised legacy applications

Senior Software Engineer (vendor)

Solnet Solutions

I was focussed on implementing complex integration challenges and modernising existing applications and delivery practices.

In this role I worked on digital products for high profile clients mainly in the finance & health insurance industry.

Responsibilities:
- Demonstrating and teaching best practices of frameworks, tools and full stack software development processes
- Scoping and estimating work with a team
- Guided non-Javascript developers to build a modern UI and APIs
- Proposing potential solutions to the Solution Architects, Product Owners and other stakeholders
- Defining and document APIs by Swagger and Open API spec
- Developing and Angular and React apps
- Developing REST-APIs using Node.js (Typescript) and Spring Boot (Java)

Highlights:
- Delivered mediation and identity APIs, including OAuth 2, to secure sensitive third-party data sources effectively
- Delivered automation e2e testing tools in Node.js for API regression testing purposes
- Containerised and optimised all the different artifacts in a solution e.g. front-end applications and APIs for CI/CD purposes

Senior JavaScript Developer

Latitude Financial Services

I joined engineering teams to improve and implement new features of Latitude's buy-now-pay-later platform.

Highlights:
- Delivered a real time event driven integration with an enterprise collections capability
- Delivered parts of a major multi-product feature to enable big amount purchases
- Delivered payment arrangement features to help customers in financial hardship
- Migrated reporting capability to a new scalable solution
- Addressed underlying challenges and to keep the platform fit for purpose

ACC New Zealand

I was part of Agile product team of ACC's business customer facing applications. The product contained multiple front-end applications and REST APIs which were integrated with enterprise-wide systems -supported by DevOps to enable continuous delivery. My role was to plan, develop and deliver new features as well as continuous improvement of the product. . I worked in close collaboration with other developers, testers, BAs, scrum master and product owner.

Responsibilities
- Working effectively in an Agile product team
- Planning and estimating work
- Delivering tested features APIs in Java (Spring Boot)
- Developing UI applications in Typescript React / Redux
- Testing using Cypress, JUnit and Mockito
- Preparing releases using Jenkins and Openshift
- Promoting best practices and patterns
- Consolidating technical debt

Highlights
- Successfully refactored old Angular.js applications to React over time
- Improved the unit testing coverage
- Promoted the importance of thorough testing practices that resemble the way the application is used
- Delivered a brand-new app for ACC staff for business customers
- Delivered a major feature around employer claims
- Delivered a major feature subsidy offers and compensations for businesses
- Delivered features and enhancements with regards to bank accounts, payments schedules and invoicing

Software Developer (vendor)

Bank of New Zealand

I joined a team at BNZ to help in transforming their Onboarding and Lending procedures by brand new applications. Aiming to improve the experience for bank staff. This transformation was supported by a new way of delivery, promoting more modular systems design and implementation with supporting Platforms and DevOps processes. I shared the lead for the Front-end implementation of two major applications and a component library.

Highlights
- Pioneered application development seeing Angular 2 through its beta releases.
- Promoted and adapted a UI component library for multiple applications.
- Guided Front-end developers through best practices, process and tooling.
- Guided automation testers through best practices, process and tooling.
- Collaboration with key team members to ensure UX best practices and UI API integration
- Involved in the preparation for its first production release.

Senior Fullstack Developer (vendor)

wearereasonablepeople

WeAreReasonablePeople (WARP) is a digital agency specialised in prototyping data driven applications. A team of 15 developers and designers design and develop software. Javascript was the core language for developing algorithms, APIs on the back-end as well as creating human centered user interfaces.

Responsibilities:
- Developing backend modules and algorithms in Node.js
- Developing and refactoring UI-components with Angular.js
- Designing and maintaining MySQL and MongoDB-databases
- Defining application features and high level architecture
- Delivering software implementations as defined and agreed on in every Scrum sprint
- Communication between product owners and the team regarding the process

Fullstack Developer

Urban City Guide

Urban City Guide is a creative company focussed on creating video content about point of interests and events in Rotterdam. My role was to advise, develop, maintain and manage Urban City Guide's online concepts. The web platform was built for publishing content, created by a team of content providers.

Web Developer

David van de Vondervoort

I worked as a freelance developer for small and medium-sized enterprises. I worked for companies who I knew through my network. Apart from running my own business it was a great way to explore new technologies and trends, including:
- D3.js and data visualisations
- Realtime web apps using web sockets
- Prototyping realtime applications with Meteor
- Arduino

Owner

I'm skilled at implementing complex integration challenges, modernising existing applications and delivery practices, in a on-prem, hybrid cloud or cloud context. Focused on API design, system integration, security, architecture, database design and testing.

My current focus is on architecting and leveraging AWS services, serverless and Spring/.NET Core (micro)services, and modernising applications and architectures.

I'm a senior software engineer designing and building well-tested end-to-end solutions. I have industry sector experience in the fields of finance, healthcare, performance & management, security, consulting, education and non-profits.

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