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I'm Jimz Au.

Senior Software Engineer DevOps

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I'm a Sydney based Senior Software Engineer with DevOps experience specialising in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) and Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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A results-driven, versatile Senior Software Engineer with multiple years of experience.

Motivated to learn and enjoy working with technologies.

Adapts to new technologies quickly with proven track record to apply newly gained skills to deliver technical tasks and solving complex application problems.

  • Fullname: James Au
  • Role: Senior Software Engineer
  • Email: hello@jimz.au

Skills

Denoting the years of experience and in order of focus. The bar indicates the level of confidence for that skill.

  • year2012
    Java
  • year2013
    AEM
  • year2011
    Javascript
  • year2010
    HTML
  • year2011
    CSS
  • year2012
    Linux
  • year2017
    AWS
Résumé

My experience and education.

Advanced through from the Telstra Graduate Program as an IT developer and progressed to become a Technical Team Lead. Moving on as a Senior Software Engineer / Consultant in various Australia's iconic companies.

Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2019 - present

Telstra

Migration for Telstra.com to AMS Cloud Platform based on AWS.

Launched Telstra International sites for global presence:

https://www.telstra.com.sg

https://www.telstra.com.hk

https://www.telstra.co.uk

https://www.telstra.us.com

Skills used: Java 8, AEM 6.1, AEM 6.3, AEM 6.5, Amazon Web Services (AWS), CloudFront, CodeBuild, CodeCommit, Lambda

Senior Developer

Dec 2016 - Mar 2019

Valtech

As an AEM developer / consultant, I've been working in various projects with some of Australia's most iconic companies, such as Lion, FairFax and Foxtel.

Skills used: Java 8, AEM 6.1, AEM 6.4, Node.js, BitBucket, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), EC2, S3

Responsibility

Provide clean-and-reusable solution to requirements.
Manage offshore resources.
Assist development team with technical guidance.
Setup and maintain applications server environment with CI/CD , caching strategy and security.

Accomplishments:

Lead the development of Valtech Rapid, an AEM foundation project, that can be rolled out for multiple clients / projects

Using Valtech Rapid to build a multi-national site, including but not limited to: Australia, Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, United Arab Emirates, Great Britain and Malaysia

Projects:

Ego Pharmaceuticals (2019)
AEM6.4

Foxtel (2018)
AEM5.6.1

Sydney Morning Herald - FairFax (2017)
AEM5.6.1

Modern Curations Gallery - Lion (2016)
AEM6.1

Senior Developer

Apr 2016 - Dec 2016

ASX

In charged of the AEM front-end code as well as helping out the project team on AEM back-end development stories / defects.

Skills used: Java 8, AEM 6.1, Sightly, OSGi, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Grunt.js, Handlebars.js, SalesForce.

Accomplishments:

Delivered a completely revamped ASX Customer Portal on AEM 6.1 - Hit the ground running and resolved ~75 outstanding tickets in my first 7 weeks in order for the project to go-live as planned

Technical Team Lead

Apr 2015 - Apr 2016

Telstra Operations | IT

Lead a team of 6 consist of developers and testers. Provide oversight in requirement analysis, solution design, development, implementation, testing and support of AEM6/CQ5 web applications.

Accomplishments:

Mobile Gifted Services development completed 2 weeks in advance and handled 24,000 vouchers in 1st day of launch

Launched Telstra TV portal– delivered 3 weeks ahead of schedule and processed 30,000 device activations in 2 months since launch

Web Applications Developer

July 2011 – Apr 2016

Telstra Operations | IT

As an all-rounded developer, working in both front-end and back-end developments on multiple projects as well as providing system administration support for the project team.

Skills used: Java, OSGi, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, UNIX shell scripting, Ansible, Apache Velocity.

Projects:

Telstra TV portal (2015)
AEM6

Responsive Telstra Media Homepage (2015)
AEM6

Sky News Australia (2014)
CQ5

16 NRL Clubs + 2 State Leagues sites (2014)
Raiders, Sea Eagles, Bulldogs,
Titans, Parramatta Eels, Dragons,
Rabbitohs, Roosters, Panthers,
Cowboys, Knights, Warriors,
Broncos, Sharks, Tigers,
Storm, NSWRL, QRL
CQ5

Telstra Media Homepage + Corporate Header/Footer (2013)
CQ5

Telstra Help & Support (2011 / 2012)
Liferay and Oracle WebCenter 11g

BigPond (2011 / 2012)
MassiveCMS

IT Graduate

July 2009 – June 2011

Telstra Operations | IT

Rotated through various technical roles in the 2-year graduate program within the IT business group in Telstra to gain exposure and experience in teams involved in the software development cycle.

Roles performed:

Platform Engineering
System Quality Testing
CMS Development
Web Services Development
Wideband IT Developer

Accomplishments:

Wrote a web application in Perl that gathered test-server environments information to testers – reduced queries for the system administrators and improved testers efficiency

Implemented a dynamic XSD/XSLT template in Massive CMS to create flexible HTML tables – this influenced the vendor, Massive Interactive, to overhauled their CMS for creating dynamic content

Successfully boosted efficiency for Wideband Planners and streamlined the turnaround time from 5 – 10 days to less than 10 minutes

Professional Development & Training

HackerRank coding challenges

Algorithms

Oracle Universal Content Management 11g

Web Content and Administrator

Education

Bachelor of e-Business

2005 – 2007

Macquarie University

An interdisciplinary degree that involves the analysis, design and implementation of computer systems for commercial application, and the management of business computing.

GPA: 3.12 out of 4

Distinctions or higher in Database, Web / E-commerce Technology, IT management and Programming.

Golden Key International Honour Society (Recognition of academic achievement for students in the Top 15% of their respective fields)

Portfolio

Check Out Some of My Works.

Here is a showcase of some of the projects that I've worked on as mentioned in my résumé.

year2010 *4

Projects Completed

200-300

Professional Contacts

year2010 *2

Awards Received

Crazy Ideas

Coffee Cups

5000-9999

Hours
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