resume.json

{
  "basics": {
    "name": "Brenton Cleeland",
    "email": "brenton@brntn.me",
    "phone": "0433 915 551",
    "url": "https://brntn.me",
    "summary": "I am an experienced engineering team lead passionate about driving product success.\nI have led large teams to build, deploy, and maintain customer-facing applications.\nMy passion is growing teams by promoting engineering practices, mentoring and coaching developers, and enabling a collaborative team culture.\n",
    "location": {
      "city": "Albury",
      "countryCode": "Australia"
    },
    "profiles": [
      {
        "network": "Github",
        "username": "sesh",
        "url": "https://github.com/sesh"
      },
      {
        "network": "LinkedIn",
        "username": "brentonc",
        "url": "https://linkedin.com/in/brentonc/"
      }
    ]
  },
  "work": [
    {
      "name": "GoodHuman",
      "position": "Engineering Manager",
      "startDate": "2023-03-10",
      "highlights": [
        "Managed a team of up to 25 engineers, providing consistent mentoring and coaching to foster their professional growth.",
        "Implemented a comprehensive technical self-assessment framework and capability model, helping engineers identify areas for learning and development.",
        "Worked on the solution design and initial product direction for the GoodHuman public API and integration platform project.",
        "Collaborated with the team to identify critical areas for technical uplift, prioritising them for implementation in the second half of 2023.",
        "In conjuction with the CTO and Head of People, implemented a career progression framework for engineering team members."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Publicis Sapient",
      "position": "Director Engineering",
      "startDate": "2022-04-10",
      "endDate": "2023-03-01",
      "highlights": [
        "Developed and launched an intensive six-week Engineering Foundations training program for graduates joining the Australian engineering team.",
        "Managed a team of up to eight senior manager and manager engineers. Combined they managed over 30 software engineers working across a wide range of projects.",
        "Worked directly with teams delivering software solutions for public sector clients in NSW and Victoria on both engineering and stakeholder management."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Coles Supermarkets",
      "position": "Principal Engineer",
      "startDate": "2021-07-20",
      "endDate": "2022-04-09",
      "highlights": [
        "As part of the Platform Engineering leadership team I worked closely with the Customer Identity, Integration and Search teams to help with delivery practices and ensure consistent technical outcomes.",
        "Worked with team leads and architects to ensure that major technical decisions aligned with the future direction of the company.",
        "Planned and helped implement the roll out of the customer identity platform for Coles’ new unified shopping experience."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Coles Supermarkets",
      "position": "Lead Engineer",
      "startDate": "2020-05-04",
      "endDate": "2021-06-10",
      "highlights": [
        "Technical lead for the team that launched Coles’ new Customer Identity platform.",
        "Led the design and development of a customised single sign-on experience backed by Auth0 and a bespoke set of customer profile services using .NET Core, CosmosDB, EventHub and React.",
        "Supported the rollout of the new login and profile experience to the Coles mobile app. The platform supported hundreds of thousands monthly active users and millions of daily profile related requests.",
        "Helped evolve the engineering hiring process. Conducted interviews and provided interview training to other team members.",
        "Over 12 months the team grew to 16 people with two Technical Leads working with myself on the continued development of the platform."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "SiSU Health Group",
      "position": "Head of Software",
      "startDate": "2020-01-01",
      "endDate": "2020-06-01",
      "highlights": [
        "Worked closely with the Head of Product to help roadmap new features and work towards solving underlying technical issues.",
        "Led the four person development team in developing, testing and releasing features under the medical device (ISO 13485:2016) SDLC.",
        "Enabled the launch of the SiSU Health Station into the NHS by implementing integrations with UK-focused health risk management tools such as QRisk3.",
        "As COVID hit, the team was able to quickly integrate contactless prescription requests through an integration with Telstra Health."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Thoughtworks",
      "position": "Senior Consultant",
      "startDate": "2017-11-01",
      "endDate": "2019-12-01",
      "highlights": [
        "Worked on two major client projects focussed on the modernisation of enterprise applications with .NET Core and React.",
        "Developed lightweight micro-services solutions and micro-frontends to replace mainframe systems while up-skilling client teams to work with modern technologies and practices.",
        "Ran internal Kubernetes, Python and AWS training, and was able to travel to Germany to run a Test Driven Development workshop at DjangoCon EU."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Common Code",
      "position": "Delivery Director",
      "startDate": "2015-01-01",
      "endDate": "2017-11-01",
      "highlights": [
        "My broad role included technical leadership, Agile project management, infrastructure management, mentoring and maintaining strong client relationships.",
        "Worked as the client manager and technical lead for the redevelopment of the Aussie Farmers Direct e-commerce platform using Django and React.",
        "Led the team that created and conducted a modern Python web development training course for Reece Plumbing as they migrated to Python and micro-services."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Common Code",
      "position": "Senior Developer",
      "startDate": "2013-01-01",
      "endDate": "2015-01-01",
      "highlights": [
        "Added key features and helped maintain the Django-powered Cotton On e-commerce platform, then joined the team that migrated their store to Demandware (now Salesforce Commerce).",
        "Built mini-sites for startups like Who Gives a Crap (TODO)"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Pepper Publishing",
      "position": "Web Developer",
      "startDate": "2008-01-01",
      "endDate": "2012-12-01",
      "highlights": [
        "Sole developer that launched an online presence for the accommodation listing site Holidaying With Dogs.",
        "Worked directly with editorial teams to build and manage Wordpress-powered sites for the magazines \"Wake\" and \"Waterski\"."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "Swinburne University",
      "area": "Computer Science and Software Engineering",
      "studyType": "Bachelor",
      "startDate": "2005-01-01",
      "endDate": "2008-12-01"
    }
  ],
  "projects": [
    {
      "name": "django-up",
      "url": "https://github.com/sesh/django-up",
      "summary": "An almost zero configuration tool for deploying Django applications. Uses Ansible to securely set up a VPS and deploy the application using modern best practices."
    },
    {
      "name": "Run Randomly",
      "url": "https://runrandomly.com/",
      "summary": "A workout generator for runners built with a mix of Django and C#. It is able to generate FIT files or add workouts directly to a third party service (Intervals.icu) after authenticating with OAuth."
    }
  ]
}