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Raquel Reboredo Penedo

Sydney,NSW

Summary

Results-oriented Principal Engineer with a proven track record of implementing and standardising platform, applications and processes, resulting in around 75% reduction in infra provision and 20% increase in development efficiency. Skilled in managing teams of up to 10 engineers and successfully delivering complex projects with budget limitations.

Skilled in defining technical designs, estimating cost/timeframes and executing plans to achieve business outcome and optimise opportunities.

Committed to create collaborative work environment and mentoring team members to improve technical skills and leadership abilities.

Worked in whole lifecycle of Cloud migration/transformation for on premise app, Pega Case Management, Pega Decision Management, SAP and J2EE implementation projects as Principal Engineer across different sectors such as Telecommunication (Call Center, Telesales, Web, IVR and WAP), Banking and Industry.
Involved on many different projects in America, Europe and Oceania improving businesses processes in various corporate organisations.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Principal Engineer

Commonwealth Bank - Workflow Platform
09.2022 - Current

Lead the transformation and implementation of scalable and robust Pega Case Management platform in Cloud platform. We have a leading-edge approach to migrate our Pega CM applications to Cloud(AWS),

  • Create technical design for new Pega Cloud platform and patterns to establish new integration between Pega SaaS infrastructure and CBA applications (On premise, AWS and Azure) following security standards.
  • Work with multiple teams to get solutions and plans approve to achieve great outcomes with relevant support of relevant stakeholders such as: GM/EGM/Architects/ SRE/ Risk in Change/ Business to provide them technical insights of relevant solutions and problem spaces.
  • Analyse and interpret Cloud and On-premise patterns to identify trends and recommend improvements.
  • Applied development best practices in daily tasks for efficiency and accuracy.
  • Monitored and evaluated engineering performance to recommend improvements.
  • Created and lead high performance teams of 10 engineers.
  • Define OKR and provide relevant information to GM, EM and PO to define, analysis and execute OKR in our platform.
  • Provide estimations and roadmap to support OKR
  • Work with Security Architects, Solution Architects and Risk in Change team to identify and mitigate risks in platform and applications hosted in our platform.
  • Provide processes and infrastructure to onboard more than 15 applications in our platform and provide infra and integrations to productionise 5 applications

Senior Engineer Lead

Commonwealth Bank - CDAO
09.2017 - 09.2022

Project Name: CRS, HLPT, CFS, Bell, CVBP, CRA and TD

  • Assisted in developing cost-effective solutions to business problems.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders, partners, and team members to ensure project success.
  • Coach and train business stakeholders and team members in key Pega Decision Strategy Management (DSM) and Marketing functionality.
  • Apply best practices of software development, including automated testing tools.
  • Estimate the cost and people for decision projects.
  • Create the Decision Application teams to develop and test the applications
  • Enforced rules and regulations to keep working applications safe and well perform
  • Create High Level Solutions Designs
  • Design, implement, and operate Pega solutions in large enterprise environment (data flows,
    propositions, strategies, adaptive models, simulation, experimentation, etc.).
  • Developing Unit Testing framework.
  • Ensure effective engagement with stakeholders for the provision of system support.
  • Providing specialized expertise and development using Java, SQL, and Pega Platform.

Team Lead Decision Consultant

Merkle
09.2008 - 12.2016
  • Design technical solutions and provide high level cost and timeframe estimations
  • Analyse impact and viability of the requirements of the client to define the stories.
  • Analysis existing process and suggest new improvements
  • Recommend and apply best practices to improve the quality of the deliveries across the project and different teams.
  • Train and supervise new joiners in the team.
  • Build and test the requirements every Sprint.
  • Collaborated with other department leads to streamline workflows, improve interdepartmental coordination, and achieve business goals collectively.

Education

Master of Science - Master in Innovation And Research in Informatics

Universitat Politècnica De Catalunya (UPC)
Barcelona - Spain
07.2015

Master of Science - Strategic Enterprise Management With MySAP ERP

Politécnica De Cataluña University
Barcelona - Spain
06.2008

Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering

Simón Bolívar University
Caracas - Venezuela
05.2006

Skills

Soft Skills

  • Teamwork
  • Problem-solving
  • Time management
  • Critical thinking
  • Decision-making
  • Adaptability
  • Leadership

Technical Skills

  • Data Analysis and Modeling
  • Cost Estimates
  • Security best practices
  • Agile Methodology
  • CICD
  • DevOps
  • Technologies: GitHub, Cloud, AWS (Amazon Web Service) CloudFormation, AWS Code Pipeline, Pega (Case Management & Decisioning), Splunk, Jira, Oracle, Java

Certification


  • 2022 CSSA: Certified Pega Senior System Consultant v8.8
  • 2021 CPDC: Certified Pega Decisioning Consultant v8.6
  • 2021 AWS Certified Developer Associate
  • 2021 AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate
  • 2020 CPDC: Certified Pega Decisioning Consultant v8.1
  • 2019 PCDS: Pega Certified Data Scientist v 8.1
  • 2016 CSPMC: Certified Senior Pega Marketing Consultant v7.1
  • 2015 CSA: Certified Pega System Architect v7.1
  • 2008 SAP Certified Application Associate- Business Intelligence with SAPNetWeaver 7.0
  • 2008 SAP Certified Application Associate- Materials Management with SAP NetWeaver 7.0

Languages

Spanish
Native or Bilingual

Timeline

Principal Engineer

Commonwealth Bank - Workflow Platform
09.2022 - Current

Senior Engineer Lead

Commonwealth Bank - CDAO
09.2017 - 09.2022

Team Lead Decision Consultant

Merkle
09.2008 - 12.2016

Master of Science - Master in Innovation And Research in Informatics

Universitat Politècnica De Catalunya (UPC)

Master of Science - Strategic Enterprise Management With MySAP ERP

Politécnica De Cataluña University

Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering

Simón Bolívar University


  • 2022 CSSA: Certified Pega Senior System Consultant v8.8
  • 2021 CPDC: Certified Pega Decisioning Consultant v8.6
  • 2021 AWS Certified Developer Associate
  • 2021 AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate
  • 2020 CPDC: Certified Pega Decisioning Consultant v8.1
  • 2019 PCDS: Pega Certified Data Scientist v 8.1
  • 2016 CSPMC: Certified Senior Pega Marketing Consultant v7.1
  • 2015 CSA: Certified Pega System Architect v7.1
  • 2008 SAP Certified Application Associate- Business Intelligence with SAPNetWeaver 7.0
  • 2008 SAP Certified Application Associate- Materials Management with SAP NetWeaver 7.0
Raquel Reboredo Penedo