Allan Y.

Allan Y.

Senior Software Engineer

Sydney, Australia
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Work history

UpStack
UpStack
Senior Software Engineer
2019 - Present (5 years)
Remote
  • Creating and developing innovative software solutions for clients across a broad range of industries.

Infomedia Ltd
Infomedia Ltd
Senior Software Developer - Core Services
2017 - 2019 (2 years)
Sydney, Australia
  • Maintained shared Java libraries, microservices, deployment tools, and evolved the AWS infrastructure for Infomedia's global SaaS products.

  • Developed new CD/CI pipelines and tools to manage processes and tasks from one AWS account to multi-account production and deployment.

  • Moved processes for IDP authentication to Auth0; supporting single sign-on tasks for 40,000 logins per day across the globe.

Nasdaq
Nasdaq
Senior Software Developer
2016 - 2017 (1 year)
Sydney, Australia
  • Developed alerts to identify potential abusive trading behaviours on the Nasdaq platform using Java and Alice an in-house programming language.

  • Offered technical expertise for DevOp processes for testing and release toolings on the project.

  • Developed a BDD test framework to verify alerts on the generated trade information; reducing bugs and improving test efficiency.

MST GLOBAL
MST GLOBAL
Software Engineer
2015 - 2016 (1 year)
Sydney, Australia
  • Designed, modified and developed core web applications and Java applications as a full stack developer for MST Global.

  • Designed and implemented a distributed cache library used by different web components within the company.

  • Wrote and optimized solutions that dramatically improved the performance of web services for the client.

Holocentric
Holocentric
Software Developer
2014 - 2015 (1 year)
Sydney, Australia
  • Identified and resolved performance bottlenecks on web applications amd optimized complex MS SQL queries and stored procedures.

  • Managed the design and development of WPF and InstallShield to handle the installation and upgrade of applications on Windows Servers.

  • Designed, developed and delivered new, defect-free features on web applications for Holocentric.

InteRisk
InteRisk
Software Developer
2013 - 2014 (1 year)
Sydney, Australia
  • Worked as the sole developer on end-to-end software development projects at InteRisk; building highly efficient solutions for clients.

  • Designed and developed a risk/document management J2EE application deployed on AWS; which received great feedback from customers.

  • Built and published a native iOS and Android app to assist people with evacuation in two months.

Portfolio

Full Stack Solo Developer - Ray White Official WeChat Service Account and WeChat Website
Full Stack Solo Developer - Ray White Official WeChat Service Account and WeChat Website

This application allows users to search listed Ray White properties and interact with a Ray White Official Wechat Service Account, such as sending current user location or giving simple search terms. Designed and developed the entire application for both backend and frontend and deployed it on Azure.

Full Stack Developer/Research Assistant - ESA – Internship Project with CSIRO
Full Stack Developer/Research Assistant - ESA – Internship Project with CSIRO

CSIRO's Emergency Situation Awareness (ESA) platform monitors the Tweet stream across Australia and New Zealand in real-time, converting the deluge of data into situation awareness information for crisis coordinators. This is a commercialised research project that analyzed real-time Twitter data to identify current emergency situations in Australia and New Zealand with Nature Language Processing and Machine Learning. Developed the backend Nature Language Processing Process, classification and clustering algorithms and implemented the front-end web interface. The website was published with a research paper together.

Education

Education
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
Amazon Web Services
2019 - 2022 (3 years)
Education
Bachelor of IT, double majored in Software Development & Information Systems – First Class Honors
The Australian National University
2010 - 2012 (2 years)