suranyami

Senior Engineer

Senior polyglot engineer with over a decade's worth of systems in production.

Primarily looking for Elixir roles.


Experience: 11 years

Yearly salary: $130,000

Hourly rate: $80

Nationality: ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ Australia

Residency: ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ Australia


Experience

Senior Engineer
Stax
2021 - 2022
Compliance rules engine in Ruby.
Tech Lead
Arcade
2020 - 2021
Transitioning a bare-metal monolithic legacy Rails app into a modern, scalable, containerised, microservice-focussed Elixir + GraphQL system. Enabling more reliable and real-time instant message for in-house chat system, database optimization, connecting to multiple 3rd party APIs for data and metrics ingestion and transformation.
Tech Lead
Culture Amp
2019 - 2020
Technical leadership for Core Perform Team working on a mighty monolith Rails app, refactoring legacy code that was brought into the company as an acqui-hire. Prototyping elixir microservices, graphql for future expansion and rolling out of new features, scaling for massive increase in customer base.
Contracting, Senior Software Engineer
Various contracting projects
2018 - 2019
Contracting on various projects.
Senior Engineer
Vamp
2018 - 2018
Build dev team from scratch for total re-write of backend, dashboard, mobile app. Starting from zero, building a 20+ dev team, best practices, continuous integration, continuous deployment, strict linting, enforced TDD, recruitment, training, mentoring.
Senior Developer
Alembic
2017 - 2017
Extracting pricing information from a variety of legacy API systems in JSON, XML, RESTful APIS, FTP, rate-limiting and serving it up in real-time dashboards for a horse-racing news and bookmaker price information aggregator.
Senior Developer
Laava
2017 - 2018
Set up perceptual-hashing and Hamming-distance backend systems for a novel type of bar-code for fraud prevention and logistics tracking. Integrating OpenCV into backend systems on Heroku and on test apps in React Native.
Team Lead
The Booking Button, Siteminder
2016 - 2017
Transitioning this legacy Rails monolith towards a more API-driven design, modern frontend using Vue.js and microservices. Modernising deployment processes from Travis to Buildkite.
Consultant
IndustrieIT
2015 - 2015
Repurposing of the Crust Pizza website to provide the web presence for sister company, Pizza Capers.
CTO
Mable
2015 - 2016
Hiring, mentoring, TDD, bug fixing, roadmap, new feature development.
Mentor
Elexsy
2015 - 2015
On-site mentoring in Xiโ€™an, China, with a team of developers to improve their productivity in coding, testing, deployment.
Team Lead
Maxwell Forest
2013 - 2015
Build of high-transaction backend systems to support custom system-on-a-chip hardware built into a new type of credit card.
System Architect
Avatars Team, JobReady
2012 - 2013
Building a replacement state apprenticeship administration system for the ACT government.
CTO
The Project Factory
2011 - 2012
Transformational role in taking an image-oriented team and redefining it in terms of functional capabilities.
Consultant
Canoniq / BT / Westpac
2010 - 2011
Complex refactoring project to bring up to speed with modern HTML and CSS a critical legacy middleware layer.
System Architect, Developer
Kinesis
2008 - 2010
Design and build from scratch a numerical modelling tool for modelling and managing carbon emissions.

Skills

elixir
ruby
english