Work Experience

Engineering Team Lead

Ezypay 2024 – Present

Responsible for recruitment, talent retention, and talent growth within the team. Remove impediments blocking team members and work closely with the Product team for feature delivery. Provide mentoring to software engineers to ensure they remain relevant in the market.

Recruitment Talent Development Java Spring Boot Solution Architecture Project Management

Software Engineering Manager

GBG 2023 – 2024

Responsible for recruitment, working closely with internal recruiters to grow the team. Bridged the gap between engineering and product to ensure smooth delivery, removed impediments blocking engineers, and coordinated collaboration between engineers and clients.

Recruitment Engineering Management Project Management Talent Retention

Principal Software Engineer

GfK 2022 – 2023

Led hiring efforts by working with internal and external recruiters to identify candidates and conducted interviews to build the new team. Responsible for the career growth and retention of team members. Collaborated with the Product team to clarify technical requirements and directions.

Java Spring Boot MongoDB Elasticsearch Recruitment Talent Development Talent Retention

Senior Software Engineer

GfK 2016 – 2022

Drove technical direction for the team and worked closely with the Product Owner to resolve technical ambiguities and impediments. Collaborated with tech leads from other teams to ensure smooth application integrations. Promoted a test-first culture grounded in the Agile Testing Manifesto. Served as Chapter Lead for several team members, supporting their career growth and marking my entry into people management. Also participated in the hiring process by conducting candidate interviews. Promoted Scrum best practices across the team to improve agile delivery.

Java Spring Boot Angular React Cucumber MySQL MongoDB GraphQL Google Cloud Platform Git GitLab Apache Maven Gradle

Analyst Programmer

GfK 2014 – 2016

Developed features based on requirements from the Product Owner and followed technical directions from the Technical Architect.

Java Spring Boot Oracle Database Jenkins Git AngularJS Gradle

Software Engineer

TimWe 2013 – 2014

Developed Liferay portlets based on clients' requirements, guided team members, and provided assistance during UAT, deployment, and production.

Liferay jQuery Git Jenkins

Software Engineer

OnApp 2009 – 2013

Delivered features for a CDN application to provide better speed in delivering web content. Worked in a Scrum environment, collaborating closely with the team to ship reliable, performant solutions.

Java Spring Framework Hibernate Symfony Apache Maven UNIX Git Jenkins Scrum

Software Engineer

iMocha 2007 – 2008

Developed features based on requirements provided by Business Analysts. Provided support during User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and delivered production support to ensure system stability.

Glassfish Unix Apache Struts Apache Maven jQuery