Hua (Josh) Zhu
Melbourne,Australia
Summary
A highly motivated Full-Stack Web Developer (backend focus) with years of industrial experience. Always prepared and looking for new challenges.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Software Engineer
Commonwealth Bank
11.2023 - Current
- Building customer-facing APIs to enable clients to check the correctness of their bank accounts when performing payment transactions, using a variety of AWS tools: AWS API Gateway, Lambda functions, CloudWatch, ACM, SSM, and CBA tooling for API authentication. Also using Akamai, IDP, and Edge Gateway.
- Designing and building the billing flow for charging customers based on their API usage. AWS tools used: Firehose, SQS, EventBridge, Lambda, S3, and CloudWatch.
- Acting as the tech lead in the team for customer technical onboarding, attending customer meetings as a tech representative for the team, and coordinating non-prod, prod onboarding, and connectivity testing.
- Acting as a tech representative for the team to work with stakeholders from different teams to discuss solution design and technical feasibility.
- Mentoring junior developers.
Senior Software Engineer
SEEK
07.2022 - 11.2023
- Working on the integration project to integrate the APAC CRM system into ANZ CRM system
- Working in a fully serverless environment, utilizing Node, Typescript and various AWS services/tools, including CDK, lambda, SQS, SNS, Event Bridge, Step functions and S3
- Also, building CI/CD pipelines using Buildkite
- Led a few integration works including communicating with different Business stakeholders, designing the solutions and having tech discussions with different internal tech teams.
Software Engineer
Square
06.2021 - 07.2022
- Working in the Merchant Success team to build a Management Platform for all Afterpay Merchants using Micro-frontends (module federation), React, Typescript, Java, Kotlin and AWS services
- Leading a few technical discoveries for vague problems and coming up with technical solutions and delivery plans
- Working closely with stakeholders to gather the project requirements, and negotiate deadlines and expectations
- Challenging the team's technical and Agile practice, and improving the way of working and pairing and mentoring Junior and Mid Level devs
Senior Software Engineer
A Cloud Guru | A Pluralsight Company
06.2019 - 06.2021
- Leading and designing the architecture of a few B2B projects, and manage the delivery
- Being a representative of the BMT team in the broader cross-team projects
- Working closely with stakeholders to gathering the project requirements, and manage the expectation
- Challenge the team technical / Agile practice, and improve the efficiency of the team works
- Pairing and mentoring Junior and Mid Level devs
Co-Founder & Backend Lead
Quokka Technology
01.2019 - 06.2020
- Building Quokka Parking backend system using Python, Django, Celery, GraphQL, Elasticsearch, Stripe payment
Web Developer
MECCA Brands
08.2017 - 04.2019
Web Developer
Esuperfund
02.2016 - 03.2017
Education
Master of IT, Information Technology -
University of Melbourne
01.2015
Skills
- Microservices Architecture
- Amazon Web Services
- Web application development
- Event driven Architecture
- API development experience
- Development Lifecycles
- DevOps Best Practices
- Project Planning
- Node / Typescript Programming
Certification
- Machine Learning - Coursera, U7T46D8HDW8F
- AWS Certified Developer - Associate - Amazon Web Services (AWS), 6EGPRW413BRQ19CG, 07/01/19, 07/01/22
Awards
Jo Horgan award nomination, 2018
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer
Commonwealth Bank
11.2023 - Current
Senior Software Engineer
SEEK
07.2022 - 11.2023
Software Engineer
Square
06.2021 - 07.2022
Senior Software Engineer
A Cloud Guru | A Pluralsight Company
06.2019 - 06.2021
Co-Founder & Backend Lead
Quokka Technology
01.2019 - 06.2020
Web Developer
MECCA Brands
08.2017 - 04.2019
Web Developer
Esuperfund
02.2016 - 03.2017
Master of IT, Information Technology -
University of Melbourne
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