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Dan Loku

Dan Loku

Mulgrave,VIC

Summary

Decisive Engineering Manager highly effective at operating in dynamic, high-pressure environments. Successfully handle multiple simultaneous responsibilities while exceeding objectives and satisfying tough clients.


Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy and with extensive hands-on experience around, design/architecting, DevOps, automations, agile delivery, full stack development with various technologies.


Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Engineering Manager

NAB
12.2019 - Current
  • Having 15+ direct reports varing through onshore , offshore and consultants.
  • Enabling and managing Monitoring capabilities, distributed tracing and observability across the bank.
  • Enabling SRE, DevOps practices and development patterns building across micro services, K8, cloud native, Single page web, mobile SDK's.
  • Managing high profiled, key commercial contracts, budgets, negotiations and vendors for the bank. ( Cisco - AppDynamics, BMC - Defender , IBM - Qradar, CA-APM , JDS, Accenture ).
  • Large scale project delivery across the bank.
  • Cost reduction initiatives including insourcing.
  • Managing cloud migration programmes and cloud workloads under AWS and Azure.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products on tight deadlines with Agile practices.

Consultant Platforms Lead

NAB
02.2019 - 12.2019
  • Technical leadership and build
  • Architecture/Design
  • Devops
  • Integrations
  • Cloud development.

Senior Software Engineer

NAB
10.2017 - 01.2019
  • UI/UX Design/develop
  • Delivery
  • Devops
  • Architecture/Design.

Senior Technical Analyst

NAB
01.2016 - 10.2017
  • Technical support.
  • Devops.
  • Change/incident management.
  • Support development.
  • Stakeholder management.

Technical Support Lead (APAC)

Brightstar Logistics Pvt. Ltd
09.2012 - 12.2015
  • People leadership (Insource/Outsource).
  • Development.
  • Vendor management (APAC)
  • Change/Incident management.

Software Developer

Telstra
04.2011 - 09.2012
  • Project Delivery.
  • Development.
  • Performance testing.
  • Monitoring.

Software Developer

IBM
05.2010 - 01.2011
  • Lead developer

Education

MSC in Computer Science - Information Technology

Royal Melbourne Institute of IT (RMIT)
Melbourne, VIC

BSC(Hons) in Information technology - Information Technology

Sri Lanka Institute Of Information Technology (SLIIT)

Diploma in Management Accounting - Business Management

Charted Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)

Diploma in Unix/Linux Administration -

Turnkey IT Training Institute Sri Lanka

Diploma In Web Services And Technology -

Royal Melbourne Institute of IT (RMIT)

Skills

  • Prioritization
  • Requirements Analysis
  • System Architecture
  • Financial Administration
  • Stakeholder Communication
  • Coaching and Mentoring
  • Engineering Design
  • Customer Focus
  • Cross-functional Team Management
  • Budget Management
  • Technical Leadership
  • Vendor Management
  • Decision Making
  • Project Management
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Forward-Thinking Mindset
  • Strategic Planning

Pronouns

he/him

Accomplishments

  • Earned "NAB Honouree" Award for high performance and cost reduction initiatives.
  • Eliminated cost of consulting by insourcing strategies, saving company $1m per year.
  • Awarded " multiple stakeholder appreciate awards" for been delivering timely, been approachable and with in budgets via employees appreciation programs.
  • Decommissioned unnecessary expensive tools and brought more consolidated tooling strategies in monitoring with the blend of open sourcing to bring down costs.
  • More automaton strategies were brought to bring down operational costs and to save time on delivery.
  • Mentored large number of junior resources including interns to grow their career progress inside and outside the organisation.
  • Had the opportunity to do public key note speaking along with global leaders around observability at CiscoLive APAC.

Affiliations

  • Certified Technologist ( ACS - Australian Computer Society)
  • Charted Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), Member

Certification

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect.
  • AWS Certified Developer.
  • AZURE Certified.
  • Oracle Java Certified.
  • Pega Certified Solutions Architect.
  • Pega Certified UI Architect.
  • SCRUM Master Certification ( Scrum.org )
  • ITIL Certified.

Timeline

Senior Engineering Manager

NAB
12.2019 - Current

Consultant Platforms Lead

NAB
02.2019 - 12.2019

Senior Software Engineer

NAB
10.2017 - 01.2019

Senior Technical Analyst

NAB
01.2016 - 10.2017

Technical Support Lead (APAC)

Brightstar Logistics Pvt. Ltd
09.2012 - 12.2015

Software Developer

Telstra
04.2011 - 09.2012

Software Developer

IBM
05.2010 - 01.2011

MSC in Computer Science - Information Technology

Royal Melbourne Institute of IT (RMIT)

BSC(Hons) in Information technology - Information Technology

Sri Lanka Institute Of Information Technology (SLIIT)

Diploma in Management Accounting - Business Management

Charted Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)

Diploma in Unix/Linux Administration -

Turnkey IT Training Institute Sri Lanka

Diploma In Web Services And Technology -

Royal Melbourne Institute of IT (RMIT)
Dan Loku