Lead Platform Engineer
December 2021 – May 2025
Westpac - Azure Big Data Framework Team
- Led a team of 10 software engineers delivering enterprise-grade data platform capabilities to more than 1,100 engineers across the organisation
- Architected and delivered a greenfield, cloud-native big data framework on Westpac's target-state Azure platform
- Increased engineering productivity by simplifying metadata models and introducing more flexible, reusable pipeline architecture
- Designed and built automated migration tooling that assist converting more than 12,000 legacy data pipelines to the new metadata framework
- Delivered average processing performance improvements exceeding 20% across big data workloads compared with the legacy platform
- Implemented new detailed auditing and monitoring capabilities to provide real-time visibility into data pipeline performance and health
Framework Engineer
May 2018 – November 2021
Westpac - HDP Big Data Framework Team
- Contributed to the development of Westpac's first enterprise Hadoop-based big data platform for large-scale data ingestion and transformation
- Designed and implemented field-level encryption capabilities, securing more than 400 TB of sensitive enterprise data throughout the platform's lifecycle
- Built DevSecOps deployment pipelines using Jenkins, reducing deployment times by more than 95% through automation
- Introduced automated functional testing for both local and cluster execution, significantly improving software quality, stability, and release confidence
Technical Lead
February 2017 – April 2018
Westpac - Data Visualisation Team
- Managed enterprise Qlikview environments for business users to consume and produce reporting
Technology Graduate
February 2015 – January 2017
Westpac - Various Teams