Jacob Elali

jacobElali

Professional Experience

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Westpac Banking Corporation
Software Engineer
November 2024 - Present

Westpac is Australia's 2nd largest bank. I'm working on their payments tech.

Currently i'm simplifying the way they do payments as part of westpacs UNITE program. Building and improving the way westpac does their payments and contributing to a innovative, can do mind set at the company.

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Macquarie Group
Software Engineer
July 2022 - November 2024

Macquarie Group is a large multinational financial service business. I worked at Banking & Financial Services (BFS) division, within the core banking team. We handled the core functionality and maintenance of business banking. I've learnt to be a very flexible engineer here - UNIX, SQL, Cloud, Shell scripting & Programming were all apart of the job.

• Developed and tested Spring API within a microservice architecture.
• Actioned various tasks within Solaris UNIX, Redhat Linux environments.
• Develop and improve shell/kornshell scripts within batch process.
• Assist migrate Macquaries on-prem infrastructure to the cloud.
• On call prod maintenance & resolution using SumoLogic, Appdynamics.
• Executed queries and data changes using Sybase, Presto & RDS SQL databases.
• Communicated with business people, engineers and product to achieve common goals.

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Prospecta Software
Graduate Software Engineer
March 2022 - July 2022

Prospecta software specialises in master data governance. When I was working there, they were in the process of revamping their software architecture and product vision. They were in the process of moving from a monolithic to microservice based architecture and developing a new white label product 'MDO FUSE'. I had regular discussion with other engineers, architect, product owners and analysts throughout the SDLC.

• Developed and optimised multiple API's within tight deadlines using Spring boot and Java 11.
• Merged, pulled and resolved branches using git, bitbucket and builds using Jenkins.
• Developed unit tests using JUnit and Mockito.
• Used Agile software such as Jira and Confluence.
• Executed queries and data changes using Elasticsearch.
• Communicated with engineers, product owners and analysts throughout the SDLC.

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Astronaut Technologies
Software Engineer Intern
November 2021 - February 2022

Astronaut is an asynchronous video interviewing company offering SAP and SAS services.
• Daily standup and product meetings.
• Devleop backend logging features.
• Perform system and API tests.

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Income Energy
Software Engineer Intern
February 2021 - April 2021

Income Energy was a solar startup hosted by Energy Lab, a UTS partner.
• Co-developed a billing system in JS, HTML and CSS.
• Programmed dynamic pdf bills for customers.
• Converted electric API data into useful analytics.

Skills

Technical

Programming ➙ Javascript, Typescript, Java, Swift, Python, C, Bash, Kornshell, HTML, Tailwind, SQL & NoSQL.
Technologies ➙ Spring, React, Next, Django & Flask.
Other tech ➙ AWS S3, Cloudfront, EC2. Bash, KSH scripting, Control-M, Bitbucket, Jira, SumoLogic, Appdynamics.

Transferable

• Good problem solving skills, always determined to achieve tasks using creative and proven methods.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills as demonstrated working in small dev teams aswell as non-technical team members.
Autonomous and self-driven work ethic, able to absorb information and have a passion for learning.