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Karina Nielsen

Karina Nielsen

Software Engineer
Bony Mountain,QLD

Summary

Curious, engaged, and customer-focused software engineer. Love a new challenge, solving problems, learning and being able to help those around me.

Work History

Software Engineer

Dye & Durham (formerly GlobalX)
Brisbane, QLD
06.2021 - Current
  • Recently completed one month as technical lead for production support team, this included coordination of rotating roster of ~5 junior to senior level developers for outage support, bug fixes and product enhancements during stint
  • Experienced with current tech stack - 100% cloud based, API first, C# back end with .NET 6. Flutter front end and PostgreSQL databases, deployed via Flux to Kubernetes hosted in Google Cloud
  • Participate in migrations of micro services from .NET to .NET 6, databases from SQL to PostgreSQL
  • Design database schemas, REST APIs, event driven micro sites
  • Actively advocate for continuous improvement via RFCs, giving presentations in technical reviews and leading discussions on process improvement
  • Mentor and pair program with junior developers, providing feedback to help them meet their individual goals
  • Participate in technical interviews to hire new developers.
  • SCRUM agile methodology - two week sprints, daily stand ups, reviews and retrospectives
  • Periodically take on responsibilities as Sprint Coordinator - preparing weekly reports to CIO, ensuring sprint commitments are met, that there are features scoped and ready for next sprint, that any blockers the team has are resolved quickly and preparation of sprint reviews
  • Perform Business Analyses and Testing for products
  • Contribute toward designing and creating new software solutions from scratch and maintaining existing solutions - primarily for legal and conveyancing customers
  • Gain knowledge across a vast array of products including document management, document signing, generation of legal documents from templates, ordering documents from government authorities, order management, automated workflows, verification of identity, practice management software

Junior Software Engineer

Dye & Durham (formerly GlobalX)
Brisbane, QLD
10.2018 - 06.2021
  • Gained experience with tech stack - 100% cloud based, API first, C# back end with .NET Core. Angular front end and PostgreSQL databases, deployed via Flux to Kubernetes hosted in Google Cloud
  • Gained experience with older tech stacks still in production - Windows VM based, C# back end with .NET. Angular front end and SQL databases, deployed via Octopus
  • Write unit and integration tests
  • Perform software testing to uncover bugs and troubleshoot issues prior to application launch.
  • Consult with engineering team members and consultants to determine system loads and develop plans to ensure scalability
  • Assist development of technical documentation and revised documentation.
  • Contribute to daily scrum meetings with team updates.
  • Work effectively in virtual teams comprising of members from different cities

Accounts Receivable Manager

Dye & Durham (formerly GlobalX)
Brisbane, QLD
01.2015 - 10.2018
  • Managed team of up to 6 members with regular one on ones and performance reviews
  • Oversaw collections of overdue amounts and ensured targets for Debtor Days and total amounts outstanding were consistently met for up to 4 legal entities, 5000 customer accounts and $60M turnover
  • Verified discrepancies and resolved clients' billing issues
  • Reconciled daily AR ledger and verified proper posting.
  • Resolved valid or authorised deductions by entering adjusting entries.
  • Updated ageing reports based on daily audits.
  • Prepared bills receivable, invoices and bank deposits.
  • Recruited, interviewed, hired and trained employees
  • Prepared cash flow projections and monthly, quarterly, and annual reports.

Education

Diploma of Accounting

TAFE
South Brisbane
07.2016 - 06.2017

Software

Flutter

C#

Angular

NET and NET Core

PostgreSQL and SQL

Kubernetes

Google Cloud Platform

RabbitMQ

REST APIs

Team City

Octopus

Docker

Powershell

Python

OAuth 20

Timeline

Software Engineer

Dye & Durham (formerly GlobalX)
06.2021 - Current

Junior Software Engineer

Dye & Durham (formerly GlobalX)
10.2018 - 06.2021

Diploma of Accounting

TAFE
07.2016 - 06.2017

Accounts Receivable Manager

Dye & Durham (formerly GlobalX)
01.2015 - 10.2018

Accomplishments

    Winner of the last two fortnightly awards where we give kudos to our fellow team members, feedback received included:


    "for putting her hand up to help the team with the netsuite migration (amazing, brave, collaboration). Your generosity and fearlessness are two very much appreciated characteristics you bring to the group"


    "for fostering a supportive learning environment in terminators despite the unpredictable workload to share not only knowledge of processes but problem solving mindset - amazing, collaborative"


    "for amazing discussion about how to improve our CI/CD and use of Git and Flux."


    "for taking the time to share domain knowledge around transactions and to help us brainstorm potential architecture decisions (collaboration, improvement)"

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