Personal details

Kenny J. - Remote

Kenny J.

Timezone: Sydney (UTC+10)

Summary

Hi, thanks for looking me up.

I'm a "hands-on" Software Designer, Architect and Engineer with deep full-stack experience; systems/data engineering, front-end design/development, mobile and devops/cloud.

I can work across several technologies proficiently with current hands-on experience in Kubernetes, Terraform, Google Cloud, AWS, DevOps, APIs, Full Stack React/Redux, Javascript/Typescript, Nodejs, Big Query, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, Postgres.

I also have strong focus on coaching teams to learn, adapt and innovate. Most of my work is around solving complex business problems through people and technology. I'm technology agnostic, with the exception that there are only a given number of technologies one can truly master in a lifetime (as listed above).

My experience ranges from designing and building to managing, leading, coaching mostly in medium to very large enterprises. I prefer to spend more time working with start-ups.

Feel free to reach out to me for a quick chat if you see me online.

Work Experience

Founder | Innovation Coach
Cogni Craft | Jan 2018 - Present
Enabling businesses to get a 360° view of their customers - to unify and visualize the kind of data that helps your business to make key strategic decisions, accelerate your digital marketing efforts and transform how you run your business.
Director | Innovation Coach | Mobile, APIs, DevOps & Agile Engineering Consultant
DevOp5 | Jun 2014 - Present
Work with technology and business IT teams on devops/cloud transformation, product innovation, mobile development, test automation, service-oriented microservices API architectures, digital solutions, data lake and big data pipelines, marketing automation, CRM and business service design. Key contributions : * Architecture & Design * Team Building and Coaching * Technology Innovation Methods: Lean-Agile, Design Thinking, Lean UX, Business Model Canvas, Scrum, Kanban, TDD, BDD, Scrum. Toolset: * Front-end: Reactjs, CSS, HTML5, WebPack, Gulp, Bower, Angularjs * Back-end: Javascript, Nodejs, Express, Meteor, C#, .NET, ASP.NET, Java, Spring * Test Automation: Selenium, Cucumber-js, Mocha, Jest, Detox * Mobile: IOS, Android, React-Native, Mobile UX, Mobile CI/CD, Appium * Data Stores: Cassandra, MongoDb, DynamoDb, RDBMS - Oracle, MsSql, MySql, Postgres * Data Engineering: Python, Spark, Scala, Kafka, AWS S3/Athena, EMR/Hadoop, Hive, Sqoop, QuickSight * Cloud: AWS and Azure - Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Serverless, shell scripting * PaaS: AWS Api Gateway, Elastic Transcoder, Elastic Search, LightSail, AWS Lambda Recent Work: * Strategic lean-agile and devops transformation at a public-traded, global payment services organisation (top Australian Fintech) * Built a mobile team to deliver a secure, international FX payments app (DAU 4K+) * Built a ebook reader app (DAU 2.5K+) * Designed and delivered a microservices SOA architecture for a wholesale payments platform * Designed and delivered a smart data lake solution in AWS S3 for a one of Australia's largest insurance providers Relevant Learning: * AWS Solution Architect (pending certification) * Certified MongoDb Admin * Certified Scrum Product Owner * Certified Scrum Master * SAFe Practitioner