Adrian Chung

• Working in a startup environment and helped to build an advice engagement platform
• Lead technical engineer with a focus on the backend Python APIs
• Lead 3 engineering teams totalling 12 engineers (Flutter, React, Python, AWS)
• Utilizing my scrum training act as scrum master for 3 teams
• Be the solution designer and lead engineer for technical enhancement and new features with a focus on backend and AWS utilization and integration to 3rd parties such as Stripe, Yodlee, Salesforce etc
• Extremely hands-on technical line manager for all engineers and help train and mentor all engineers and provide technical unblocking sessions.
• State of the art platform, fully serverless in AWS.
• Deep skills in a range of core services available in AWS

Achievements

• Hire and rapidly onboard engineering team to scale up quickly
• Build cashflow modelling tool heavy use of Redux, embedded spreadsheets using Handonstable, Fusion charts and React hook forms, integrated Timeline JS to provide an interactive timeline
• Realtime voice to text transcribing
• Integrations to Salesforce, Stripe, Yodlee for open banking, Zendesk, Wix etc and numerous other 3rd party systems and utilizing AWS services for bulk batch operations SQS etc
• Production deployment of Retool cluster via ECS to provide a rapid internal development platform for business tooling
• Production deployment of BI tools, primarily Quicksight, build out the datasets for reporting
• Build the services to load a huge number of portfolio data for key US client. Due to the scale of the US market there was a lot of data to deal with Pandas, numpy and usual datascience libraries were at play here to efficiently dissect massive CSVs and loading them into the RDS backend
• Stand up the Auth0 instance to be the key component of the SSO infrastructure, designed and integrated multiple SSO flows, acting as both SP and iDP and bridging to cognito
• Real time AV of S3 buckets
• Implement UI and associated services to allow users to register TOTP app for multifactor authentication via Cognito
• Opensearch integration spin up and open search cluster and then injecting our stock universe in the cluster
• Geolocation implement UI and utilize AWS geolocation services so that end clients could prefill their addresses
• XPLAN OpenAPI integration entrenched advisor tool in the Australian market. REST based
• ChatGPT prototype, virtual advisor agent
• Migrate development to SSO based session and OIDC integration to ensure developers didn't use access keys to AWS resource
• Postman collection build up a collection of our APIs in Postman to share with 3rd parties.
• Flutter and Fastlane, AWS pinpoint, responsible for the build pipeline to deliver the Lumiant mobile app into Apple App Store and Google Play, initial security design using Auth0 and also push notifications to mobile devices
• Overhaul and optimize the support team and put into processes that improved our response time from weeks into days. This also included putting in deployment gates and utilizing JIRA ITSM
• Migration of legacy app from Azure and perform real time mysql replication via AWS DMS for seamless production cutover
• Any many more, given the nature of a startup it was non stop in terms of delivery of solutions

• Provided guidance on cyber attacks and also performed analysis for vulnerabilities on deployed platform

Achievements

• Helped advise an active DOS attack with founder
• Advised on a proof of concept attack which was later confirmed as a critical vulnerability with the use of AWS Cognito

• Performed triple development management role across two major teams
• This was a hands-on role which required development in .net C#
• Senior Development Manager - Quality Engineering
• Senior Development manager - Deployment Pipeline
• Senior Development Manager - Cyber Security Application Platform Team
• Deliver on key TAL cyber initiatives and introduce SAST and SCA tools
• Spearhead TAL's CI/CD initiative
• Uplift secure coding standards in development teams
• Act as a bridge between Cybersecurity and development teams to resolve critical vulnerabilities detected
• Manage a team of application security engineers

Achievements

• Successfully delivered the POC implementation of the CI/CD pipeline built around Azure Pipeline and utilizing Terraform as the IaC delivery system. Integrated with service now and provided full approval flow
• Heavy work in Microsoft Azure and integration with ServiceNow
• Successfully evaluated and onboarded SecureCode warrior for TAL’s development teams
• Successfully evaluated and oversaw the POC for Snyk as the SCA tool
• Successfully evaluated CheckMarx and Blackduck and ultimately POC for CheckMarx
• Assisted with remediating critical security vulnerabilities in the cyber risk register

• Collaborate with business analysts and business stakeholders to deliver successful business outcomes
• Provide guidance to senior engineers on potential approaches to technical problems
• Conduct POCs for proposed green fields technology and products.
• Design and document solution end state and aligning it with target domain architecture.
• Present solution designs through technical, architecture and security governance forums to obtain endorsements
• Lead escalation and resolution management of issues identified in design that cross solution/application boundaries.
• Investigate and recommend improvement opportunities to drive continuous improvement

Achievements

• Successfully delivered the Phase 1 Design technical service architecture document for Retail Insurance
• This was a digital growth initiative with a multi phased delivery timeline.
• Phase 1 involved the building of a foundational blocks of a retail insurance digital portal. The portal allows customers to view policy details, perform insurance needs calculations and stay informed through educational content.
• Provided technical guidance on Rice Warner engagement and technical improvements such implementation of Amazon WAF to protect their APIs and assist in meeting Westpac’s proposed integration pattern.

• Manage relationship with financial advisers and be key point of contact
• Present robo-advice capability to potential clients
• Liaise with clients to gather requirements for enhancement of robo-advice platform
• Enhance core robo-advice engine using portfolio management techniques utilizing Python and SQL and work with external clients to meet their unique requirements
• Rapid prototyping for external clients to assist with their analysis
• Enhance core platform code in Java
• Construct and maintain fund ranking models
• Develop processes to ingest data from variety of internal and external market data sources
• Manage small team of data analysts

Achievements

• Successfully pivoted and transformed the Owner’s Advisory platform to become an important capability for Macquarie WRAP platform and was critical to the delivery of several leading-edge features (pivot was due to founder of startup passing away)
• Winner of Best New Functionality by Investment Trends (https://www.ifa.com.au/news/27642-netwealth-takes-out-top-platform-ranking-as-hub24-praemium-close-in)

• Design and develop greenfield platform technical stack using Akamai, Spring Boot Netflix, Oracle, SQL Server, RabbitMQ
• Design and develop greenfield market data warehouse with data sources from FactSet and Morningstar
• Design and implements high availability WordPress instance backed by a multi master replicated Percona cluster
• Evaluate, benchmark and select vendors for the platform
• Implement and maintain virtual chat-based assistant from CreativeVirtual
• Integrate and vendor manage multiple vendors through API integration layer using Feign client with Salesforce CRM/ Marketing Cloud, Chargify Billing, Finametrica risk profiling, Google Analytics.
• Developing quant research infrastructure using Python for portfolio managers
• Recruit and manage team of 4 engineers and 2 PhD specialist in natural language processing

Achievements

• Successfully delivered Australian first robo-advisor, delivering full human readable financial advice document in under 60 seconds
• Platform was awarded Fintech Award 2016 for Fintech innovation in Wealth Management (http://fintechawards.net/previous-fintech/)
• Promoted to Associate Director as recognition for outstanding performance

• Responsible for team of 20 developers and >25 global applications and underlying Global Research platform
• Managed operational budget $2 million
• Executive stakeholder management reporting to business Global Head of Research and technology leadership team.

Achievements

• Redeveloped Australian focused research apps into a global research platform and deployed into all major global regions through an SOA architecture
• Bridged .net and Java ecosystems through a Kerberos secure interoperability layer
• Designed and deployed a global Infinispan application cache reducing data fetch times from >5 minutes to less than 30 seconds
• Developed a complete global workflow publishing system
• Rearchitected and redevelop core calculation engines and rewrote/optimized backend SQL logic to utilize ORM (iBatis) which significantly reduced query times.
• Designed and deployed Macquarie’s first cross divisional Tableau instance

• Develop and enhance Global Institutional Research Platform
• Develop and maintain core calculation engines for analyst data
• Develop and maintain global research publishing platform applications
• Develop and maintain global research database.

• Develop and enhance Corporate Asset Finance Leasing Systems
• Maintain core leasing engine and web application
• Maintain critical real-time and overnight payments/settlements systems
• Maintain core leasing accounting systems.

Achievements

• Rearchitected and rewrote the core leasing engine and deployed to 3 tier architecture
• Improved credit checking efficiency from days to less than 10 minutes through integration with Baycorp credit scoring systems
• Reduced overnight and month end process times from 18 hours to 3 hours through process automation.

• Support and enhance bank-wide e-Commerce infrastructure
• Manage web and application hosting infrastructure.

• Managed IT network equipment for Sony Style retail location.