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I am a software engineering leader with extensive experience in building web applications across various industries and technology stacks. I am passionate about software delivery not just software development. I have over 5 years experience managing and building agile development teams. I have an excellent understanding of the agile methodologies and have demonstrated this with the implementation...

I am a software engineering leader with extensive experience in building web applications across various industries and technology stacks. I am passionate about software delivery not just software development. I have over 5 years experience managing and building agile development teams. I have an excellent understanding of the agile methodologies and have demonstrated this with the implementation of agile practices within teams at Expedia, Yahoo!7, Bigcommerce, Beat The Q and Hey You. I am able to comminicate effectively with audiences of technical and non-technical background. I believe in strong customer focus and have the ability to meet deadlines and multi-task. My specialties are architecture strategy, API design and development, strong analytical & problem solving skills, object oriented design and development, engineering for SASS web applications. I have designed and developed sophisticated, mission critical software for the e-commerce, Online Travel and Mapping industries and worked in the Digital Media Asset Management industry, among others. I am energised by finding solutions through innovation for complex problems. I am a quick learner and love exploring new technologies.VP of Engineering @ At Hey You we are building the future of mobile shopping. I am responsible for - all software engineering and infrastructure - roadmap definition and ownership - running offshore and onshore engineering teams - managing mobile and web development, POS integration - building engineering process that will scale with the team and the business - performance management, recruiting and capacity planning From December 2014 to Present (1 year 1 month) Software Engineering Manager @ JobReady are highly proficient technology providers developing cloud-based platforms specialising in Australian VET and Employment Services. JobReady was founded in 1996 and now employs 36 staff from its headquarters in Sydney. As the Engineering Manager, I am responsible for - on time delivery of all projects - managing and standardising the sprint process across 4 scrum teams - managing a team of 15 developers and 3 team leads - managing the recruitment process - on boarding new engineers and mentoring junior developers - writing technical specifications, researching innovative solutions, designing RESTful APIs and micro services Key Achievement Implemented a smooth function sprint process built around - total ownership of estimation and commitment resides with the team - total accountability resides with the team - team is enabled with a state of the art continuous deployment tool chain - a intense focus on software delivery From July 2014 to December 2014 (6 months) Sydney, AustraliaSenior Software Engineer & Team Leader @ Bigcommerce is an Australian company based with offices in Sydney, Austin and San Francisco. Bigcommerce is a SaaS commerce platform and is the worlds fasters growing commerce platform, in the process powering innumerable entrepreneur's to grow their businesses and make a difference in their lives. As a team leader - run all sprint ceremonies including daily standups, fortnightly planning sessions and retrospectives - ensure that blockers are escalated, constraints and issues impacting on project deadlines or scope, to make sure they are resolved in a timely manner - run technical interviews - act as a mentor for new starters, ensuring they are ramped up speedily - hold weekly 1-to-1s with your team members, continuously evaluating objectives - partake in and facilitate collaborative software design planning sessions with your team and peers to make informed and educated process and technical decisions - provide technical leadership across various projects As a senior engineer - I design and build APIs - Work on providing speedy and accurate resolution to issues reported by by our customers - Lead scoping and discovery on various projects Core platform Projects/Features that I have lead and worked on - Statsd integration and platform wide instrumentation - Totango integration and platform wide instrumentation - An asynchronous email system which delivers Abandoned Cart Notifications to the shopper and to the merchant helping to drive a conversion increase - Major control panel revamp - Various payment gateway integrations - Various API v2 endpoints - Designed and built a REST based Checkout API used internally I have a ever growing interest in the Ruby programming language and I use it whenever possible. I built an application to - create stores in bulk using an internal REST API using Sinatra, ActiveRecord and MySQL - bootstrap 3 for UI styling I have also worked on building a payments service prototype using Rails 4 and a popular payments gem. From July 2011 to July 2014 (3 years 1 month) Sydney, AustraliaSearch Engineering Manager @ I own and lead the delivery effort of the vertical search stack (from a technology standpoint) for all AU and NZ Yahoo properties. I have, in a short space of time, developed an understanding of the needs of various property owners and am delivering vertical search experience for our users. This involves data analysis, identifying best indexing methods and ranking profiles, choosing the best indexing platform (in house, or otherwise), developing indexing systems that keep the index up to date with to the minute news articles, galleries, videos etc and delivering these in a easy to use UI. I started @ Yahoo!7 as a Search Engineer and have since been promoted to also manage a team of 2 search engineers who also work on the vertical search roadmap. I run our 3 week sprints as the scrum master and help with prioritisation with our product management team. Using my previous experience with Scrum and Sprints I introduced the Platform Team @ Yahoo!7 to the methodology via a brown bag session and also got the process started. The platform team is now running 3 week sprints with great success. Technologies : PHP 5, JS, CSS, HTML, MySQL, Linux, Apache and various Yahoo products. The projects that I lead the engineering effort for are - au.sports.search.yahoo.com - au.lifestyle.search.yahoo.com - au.tv.search.yahoo.com From May 2010 to August 2011 (1 year 4 months) Sydney, AustraliaSoftware Design Engineer @ Technologies : J2EE, Tomcat, Spring MVC, Freemarker Core member of SEO Project team, delivering increased traffic through natural search results across all Expedia points of sale, including: - Hotels Travelguides : http://bit.ly/6jQHt6 - Hotels Geo Sitemap : http://bit.ly/8Q0o4O - Flights To : http://bit.ly/67KiRM Currently working on migrating existing functionality onto a new Java platform using agile development practices The new Java platform uses a single application across 19 points of sale, with localised UI, and Service Oriented Architecture Developed a strategy for module name spacing, design and development, which provides widgets that are pluggable across web pages Evangelised module strategy across teams in the UK, Hungary and the USA Designed and ran the training program for a new offshore development team. The program included design and development strategy, general practices as well as basic scrum training Provided remote support to the offshore development teams for code and design reviews Led an initiative that delivered a new configuration system for Expedia’s website across teams in Bellevue (US) and London. This system was implemented without any functional changes, and delivered to the live site with minimal impact. From July 2008 to May 2010 (1 year 11 months) Software Development Engineer and Technical Lead @ Working @ Multimap.com, a wholly owned subsiduary of Microsoft. I am the product technical lead for our Extranet portal used by over a 1000 customers and the backend technical lead on the Multimap.com website development project. From March 2008 to July 2008 (5 months) Software Engineer and Tech Lead @ As a software engineer @ multimap.com I am involved in developing, maintaining and supporting the enabling technologies providing Multimap’s services and engineering high levels of service delivery through good software engineering and active monitoring. I am also the Tech Lead and Lead Developer for a ClientZone, a Multimap developed product which enables its customers to manage data used in mapping solutions. This involves - providing design leadership in shaping the future of a product critical to Multimap's ongoing success - working with product managers on product directions and feature requests - working with business stake holders to present engineering solutions that meet business and customer needs and hence helping the business grow From August 2006 to July 2008 (2 years) London, United KingdomApplication Developer @ As a contracter at Unwired I worked on two main projects. In the first project I designed and implemented a secure data storage system for credit card information provided by customers of Unwired. I performed a through gap analysis of all the systems at Unwired for compliance with OWASP security standards as well as others mandated by Visa, MasterCard and the Reserve Bank of Australia. In the second project I provided a AJAX based map client which allowed potential customers to see a heat map view of Unwired's broadband coverage for any address. This project required development in conjunction with thirdparty mapping provider Multimap.com (a UK based company, now owned by Microsoft). I provided complete design documentation to aid future development and also conducted system design training to team members for ongoing development of the project. From September 2005 to June 2006 (10 months) Software Engineer @ As a software engineer at Proximity I worked on the development on various products from the Proximity product line. I was involved in all phases of the SDLC from requirements analysis to implementation and feature documentation in addition to enabling the sales team to prepare proposals by providing technical integration and implementation plans. I worked on a web UI built from the ground on the LAMP stack, a multi-threaded asynchronous Java thin client, multi-threaded backend components built in C++ for various image and video transcoding tasks. This company was later acquired by Apple and no longer exists. From September 2001 to July 2005 (3 years 11 months) Sydney, AustraliaSoftware Engineer @ The role involved design and development of software to support and manage mobile phone networks using the CDMA wireless protocol and deployment of business information systems. From January 2000 to September 2001 (1 year 9 months) Sydney, Australia Chaitanya Kuber is skilled in: LAMP, JavaScript, Java, Design Patterns, Software Design, SOA, Software Engineering, HTML5, CSS, MySQL, PHP, Software Architecture, Perl, Architecture, Agile Methodologies