Sara Danaei

• Led a team of ten developers with varying levels of experience to implement and deliver new features across both the front-end and back-end layers of the Xplore project — a platform for monitoring and managing controls and risks across all assets at ANZx.
• Collaborated with stakeholders to define requirements and set realistic timelines for new features, ensuring high-quality delivery
• Mentored and provided technical guidance to junior developers, conducted code reviews, and led pair programming sessions to promote best practices and continuous learning
• Fostered a collaborative environment within the team, promoting knowledge sharing and agile methodologies, leading to a 20% increase in development speed and efficiency
• Facilitated Agile ceremony meetings (including sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives) and managed Jira boards to track progress and prioritize tasks

Achievements:

• Leadership Impact: Successfully led a diverse team of developers, improving team cohesion and productivity, which resulted in faster feature delivery and higher-quality code
• Mentorship & Growth: Played a key role in mentoring junior developers, helping them grow technically and professionally through pair programming, code reviews, and guidance on best practices
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Drove cross-team collaboration, delivering features on time and within scope, improving overall project management efficiency

• Developed and maintained the front-end of the application using Svelte and TypeScript, improving application performance and scalability
• Architected and developed back-end services using NestJS, GraphQL, and Golang, ensuring clean, modular, and efficient code
• Designed and implemented robust CI/CD pipelines using Github actions for seamless integration and deployment, reducing downtime and increasing productivity

Achievements:

• CI/CD Performance Improvement: Improved pipeline efficiency by reducing CI/CD runtime by 30% through test refactoring, parallel execution, advanced caching, and migration to pnpm
• Test Coverage Improvement: Implemented Cypress and visual regression (screenshot) testing for Xplore, integrating both into the CI/CD pipeline to enhance automated test coverage
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Drove cross-team collaboration, delivering features on time and within scope, improving overall project management efficiency

• Developed the ANZ Apply Platform, enabling automatic generation of application forms based on a JSON schema using React, Redux, GraphQL, and Golang
• Built and maintained the ANZ Design System, a React-based component library for consistent user experience across ANZ FED projects
• Contributed to the development of the ANZ Website, the bank's official site, using AEM and React
• Onboarded new teams to the Apply platform, conducting brown bag sessions, reviewing PRs, and pair programming with developers
• Enhanced accessibility through both automated and manual testing
• Served as Scrum Master for a year while also contributing to development
• Supported production releases, ensuring security and legal approvals, and performing TVT and BVT testing
• Contributed to setting up the CI/CD pipeline and deployment process in Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Achievements:

• Streamlined Development: Played a key role in consolidating 21 individual online application projects into a unified Apply platform, reducing development time for new features dramatically
• Design System Success: Contributed to the ANZ Design System, improving design consistency and developer productivity across all digital platforms
• Accessibility Improvements: Contributed to making ANZ applications more accessible and compliant with WCAG standards

Yellow Pages: Developed and maintained the responsive website, enabling Australians to find products and suppliers across all devices using AngularJS, jQuery, CSS3, and Groovy on Grails for back-end

• Yellow Articles: Enhanced the Yellow Articles project by improving usability and maintainability with AEM (Adobe Experience Manager)
• Yellow Bookings: Built the Yellow Bookings system, allowing users to send booking requests to businesses and enabling business owners to manage bookings via a responsive interface using Spring boot
• Contributed to SEO improvements, optimizing the website’s ranking using SEO best practices and tools
• Conducted manual exploratory testing to identify usability and functional issues

Achievements:

• Responsive Web Development: Contributed to delivering one of Australia’s first responsive web projects using modern technologies
• User Experience & Performance: Improved user experience by reducing page load times and improving performance by doing some refactoring

• Developed and maintained the Sadra Banking System, a branch system for tellers and managers, and the User Portal for Mellat Insurance, a portal for merchants to manage fee payments and invoices
• Implemented back-end and front-end components, including EJB-based services, JPA entities, and JSF pages
• Developed and scheduled tasks using Quartz Scheduler
• Created Ajax-based front-end pages using jQuery and designed pages with HTML and CSS

Achievements:

• Security Enhancement: Increased security by implementing SSL and authentication solutions for the Sadra Bank project
• Global Transaction System: Developed a secure money transaction system for global banking, including Visa card transactions

• Developed and maintained web applications for government projects, including IKCO Spare Parts & After Sales Services (ISACO) and Iran Railways real-time monitoring system
• Created the Business Card System for the Iran Commercial Ministry, storing merchant profiles and facilitating grants

• Designed and documented the EXIR Pharmaceutical Co Web-based ERP project
• Developed PL/SQL functions and Oracle ADF reports using iReport and Jasper Reports
• Improved the efficiency and quality of report development for the Exir ERP system by introducing new tools and technologies