Employment History
Technology Manager, EatNow (part of Menulog Group)
January 2014 to present (5 years, 7 months)
EatNow is an online marketplace for takeaway food. Customers can find local restaurants and place orders for pickup or delivery.
David joined EatNow when it was a rapidly growing part of Catch Group. In February 2015 EatNow merged with Menulog to become Menulog Group and in May 2015 Menulog Group was acquired by Just Eat Plc.
Initially reporting directly to the General Manager, and later leading a team of three senior engineers, David was responsible for the end-to-end delivery of enhancements and bug fixes. This included:
- Integrating with the Stripe payment gateway
- Integrating with Sift Science, and later Ravelin, which used machine learning to detect and prevent customers ordering with stolen credit card numbers.
- Overhauling the admin web interface using Twitter Bootstrap to meet the needs of a growing operations team.
- Providing APIs for EatNow’s native mobile apps, and integration with various other systems
- Creating a portal for restaurant managers to control aspects of their listings
- Improvements to scalability and performance to support the rapidly growing customer base and massive peak time loads
- Ensuring ongoing PCI-DSS compliance, by liasing with assessors, payment service providers and internal stakeholders
- Conversion rate optimisation, including liasing with an external agency
David’s team was also responsible for critical non-functional features, including Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), security, performance, scalability, usability and reliability.
David used the following technologies and services at Menulog Group:
- Java 8
- Spring Framework
- Hibernate
- JSPs with JSTL
- jQuery
- jQuery Mobile
- Twitter Bootstrap
- Tomcat
- Apache HTTP Server
- AWS S3
- AWS EC2, including Elastic Load Balancing and auto-scaling groups
- AWS Route 53
- AWS Cloudfront
- AWS Elasticache
- AWS RDS MySQL
- Cloudflare
- Incapsula
- Sift Science
- Ravelin
- Stripe
- Adyen
- eWAY
- Salesforce (integrated with its API)
- Salesforce Marketing Cloud (previously known as ExactTarget)
- SendGrid
- Twilio
- MessageMedia
- New Relic
- Rapid 7 LogEntries
- MSSQL Server
- Billing Bureau Genex
- Google Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
- Google BigQuery
- Google Search Console
- SpringSource Tool Suite (Eclipse)
- Maven
- Jenkins
- GitHub
- Confluence
- Jira
- Trello
- Ansible
- Cumulus
Senior Software Engineer, MYOB
November 2010 to December 2013 (3 years, 1 month)
MYOB is a leading vendor of business software. David worked on the web based accounting product, LiveAccounts (now known as MYOB Essentials).
David's role invovled collaborating with business analysts, product owners and testers to deliver new features, fix bugs and improve existing features, while updating the technology stack.
David played a key role in adding the payroll feature to the product.
David used the following technologies and services at MYOB:
- Java
- Spring Framework
- Hibernate
- JSPs with FreeMarker
- MSSQL Server
- jQuery
- Twitter Bootstrap
- SCSS
- ThoughtWorks Twist automated functional tests
- Selenium
- Tomcat
- Apache HTTP Server
- New Relic
- Billing Bureau Genex
- Google Analytics
- Eclipse
- IntelliJ IDEA
- Maven
- ThoughtWorks GoCD
- GitHub
- Confluence
- Jira
Freelance Developer, Zed Grafix
2012 to present
Zed Grafix is a boutique design and branding agency. David has built and maintained a number of websites for Zed Grafix
- Bupa Optical's e-commerce site where customers can order glasses and contact lenses, book appointments and find stores (recently replaced with a Shopify site). Java Spring Framework Hibernate MySQL Tomcat Westpac PayWay
- An informational site for the International Clinical Skills Foundation WordPress
- The corporate website for Rhythm Biosciences WordPress
- The installation wizard for Zen Thermostat PHP
- Eternal Ingredients, a site where customers can collaborate to create unique personalised recipe books (no longer trading) PHP MySQL
Technology Lead, Infosys Australia
February 2003 to November 2010
Infosys is a global company that provides technology services to large enterprise customers. David worked on projects for a number of clients:
Designer, NAB - Global Data Warehouse
2010
David designed the data flows and mappings neccessary to bring data into NAB’s global datawarehouse from Advantedge (a mortgage lender).
David also documented many of the existing datawarehouse data flows.
- Oracle RDBMS
Web Developer, AMP Capital
2009
David helped AMP Capital quickly get their new website ready for launch. He also worked with an external vendor to patch security issues in the secure client portal.
- ASP
- jQuery
Reporting Lead, Telstra - Enterprise Program Management
2006-2008
David designed worked closely with stakeholders from Telstra to design the reports required to effectively manage and govern all program and project activity at Telstra. He then worked closely with an offshore team to build and test the reports.
David also took a lead role in performance tuning the reports, and developed a number of innovative approaches to ensure the reports could accurately aggregate data from thousands of projects in a timely manner.
- Actuate eReports
- CA Clarity PPM
- Oracle RDBMS
Developer, Expert Information Services - Roster Manager
2003
Roster Manager was a web based system for staff rostering, backed by a genetic algorithm for optimally allocating staff to shifts.
- ASP
- IIS
- MSSQL Server
- Visual Basic 6
- XML, XSLT and xPath
Other projects that David worked on at Infosys include:
- Ramsay Health Care’s ACES system for sending health insurance claims to health insurers, using Java and Unix shell scripts.
- TRUenergy's systems for quickly looking up gas and electricity meter numbers, using Java, Struts and Hibernate.
- Continuous Integration for NAB's WealthHub Portal.
- A system for Medibank Private to negotiate pricing with private hospitals
- A system for Sharp, built in .NET, to allow status data to be extracted from their multi-function printers
- Supporting CA Clarity PPM for South Australia Police and training their developers to build reports using Actuate eReports
- Supporting a system used at Australia Post outlets in South Australia for issuing various types of licences (e.g. driver's licences), built in .NET
