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• Software Engineer (Full-time), Suncorp Group

  Jun, 2018 - Present

  Building and maintaining insurance sales applications and APIs for multiple brands (AAMI, Suncorp, GIO, APIA) and products (Car, Home, Motorcycle, Dealer, Health) of Suncorp Group.

  • Rebuilt AAMI, GIO, and Suncorp motor insurance sales SPAs (Single Page Applications) and APIs from ground-up with React and Spring Boot. These new experiences increased FY19 GWP (Gross Written Premiums) per brand by 5.32% (AAMI), 15.58% (GIO) and 15.19% (Suncorp).

  • Designed consistent Redux store and API contract across 3 teams.

  • Developed React HOC and Redux middleware that collect and report analytics data from 40 web pages per each brand.

  • Led the successful production release of GIO Car Insurance UI.

  • The “go-to” guy during the partner transition period for two teams, 12 people.

  • Improved CI/CD by using declarative pipelines; decoupled Jenkins nodes from code and reorganising credentials and service accounts.

  • Relevant Skills: React, Redux, Node.js, Webpack, S3, CloudFront; Java, Spring Boot, OAuth2, Axway, OpenShift, EC2; Jenkins, Groovy, Python, Ansible, CloudFormation, etc.

• Java Developer (Full-time), Relational Data Systems

  May, 2016 - Jun, 2018 2 years 1 month

  Worked in agile and waterfall teams as a solution engineer and problem solver for the company’s new initiatives (Workflow Builder) and existing projects (Integrated Land Information Systems).

  • Developed Workflow Builder - a set of pluggable web artefacts that can create and run workflows in a drag-and-drop manner. It reduces the cost of developing forms by 80% - 95%.

  • Maintained Workflow Builder's CI/CD pipelines.

  • Worked on SAILIS and ILIS - the SA and NT governments' Integrated Land Information System. Typical tasks are: integrating with Workflow Builder, migrating workflow data, developing new features, fixing bugs and so on.

  • Developed E-Value, a sub-system that works with SAILIS for property valuation, with Spring Boot, Spring Security and so on.

  • Developed a fully functional demo built with Workflow Builder in one week, which won the bid for the NT Mineral Exploration Licence System and saved 90% of the development cost.

  • Relevant Skills: Java, AngularJS, Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Flowable, JSP, Node.js, Schema Form, Ajv, Gulp, Bower, JUnit, Jasmine, Maven, Jenkins, Oracle, etc.

• Java Developer (Contractor), Nymet Australia

  Nov, 2015 - Apr, 2016 5 months

  Added multiple features and enhancements to WaterMe, the company's online irrigation controller system.

  • Integrated with Weather Underground API to enhance automatic watering, which saves 80%-100% of water in a rainy day.

  • Optimised the system's performance, reducing its database QPS from 3000 to 600.

  • Added i18n support that helps Nymet to export products to Brazil and China.

  • Released the project to AWS EC2.

  • Built a non-production environment for future developers.

  • Relevant Skills: Java, AngularJS, Spring, Hibernate, JUnit, Node.js, Bower, Jasmine, Maven, AWS EC2, Tomcat, MySQL, MongoDB, etc.

• Co-founder and Full Stack Developer, TextbookMango

  Mar, 2014 - Mar, 2017 3 years

  TBMango was my own start-up. I was responsible for developing, hosting and maintaining our web store that rents and sells textbooks to university students.

  • We went live on 2014-07-07: http://www.textbookmango.com

  • Developed front-end CMS pages, static blocks and promotion widgets.

  • Developed back-end functions such as book management, rented books tracking.

  • Integrated our website with eWAY.

  • Developed automated release process, reducing 2 hours effort to 2 minutes.

  • Relevant Skills: PHP, Magento, LAMP, EC2, Shell, Ansible; Java, OpenCSV, CasperJS, Git, etc.

• Application Developer, IBM China

  Mar, 2011 - Jun, 2013 2 years 3 months

  Worked in IBM Systems Lab Services as a front-end developer for IBM SCE (Smart Cloud Environment, an IaaS platform), as well as being responsible for researching and developing subsidiary projects for IBM SDC (Smart Data Centre).

  • Created and maintained reusable front-end components for IBM SCE with Dojo.

  • Planned the architecture and worked out the 3D presentation solutions for the IBM SDC data visualisation applications using WebGL and VTK.

  • Developed OpenFOAM mesh and boundary condition generation tool that works with VTK to visualise data centre temperature and wind data.

  • Optimised the data centre sensors control module which increased the data collection rate by 6 times.

  • Relevant Skills: Java, Struts 2, Spring, Hibernate, JSP, JavaScript, WebGL, Dojo, VTK, OpenFoam, Swing, JWS, etc.

• Java Developer, Beijing Yonyou Audit Software Co., Ltd.

  Oct, 2009 - Feb, 2011 1 year 4 months

  Worked as a Java developer for the maintenance and new feature development tasks of UFIDA Online Audit System, a Java C/S system based on UAP-NC platform focusing on massive audit data collecting and analysing

  • Maintained the “Query Engine” module which helps users with no or limited SQL knowledge to browse, analyse and report audit data.

  • Participated in the whole process upgrading our product from version 5.0 to 5.5. Designed and implemented new features according to user requirements.

  • Promoted code review and code refactoring in our team.

  • Relevant Skills: Java, Swing, JWS, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS, Struts, Spring, Hibernate, SQL, Oracle, etc.

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