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Felix Hanley

felix@userspace.com.au
https://felixhanley.info
+61 457 092 803

Software engineer based in Australia and South East Asia.

Over many teams and years of experience in a variety of environments I have developed a broad range of skills and designed & delivered some high quality software. I enjoy the “craft” of software development and enjoy helping others to get the same satisfaction from their work.

I have been pivotal in the success of many teams, both as a player and lead, with much experience in training and mentoring, being able to explain technical topics clearly.

My publicly available source code is available at https://src.userspace.com.au and some things mirrored at GitHub and/or GitLab.

References available on request

Principal Software Engineer, Tőnnjes (October 2023 – present, Australia)

A world leader in secure vehicle identification.

Currently leading the development of core services in a variety of environments and languages.

Principal DevOps Engineer, MYOB (April 2019 – October 2023, Australia)

An Australian multi-national corporation that provides tax, accounting and other business services software to small and medium businesses.

As a principal engineer I am across a number of areas as a technical lead, particularly in the observability space and DevOps services.

Solutions Architect, UserSpace (2006 – present, Melbourne, Asia & remote)

Melbourne based hosting, development and consulting services to Australian and SE Asian clients.

Most recently:

Over the years:

Senior Software Developer, Seer Security (July 2018 – April 2019, Melbourne)

A small security business with products used by a number of government agencies.

I was the technical lead/architect for a social-network content extraction and classification engine, built to government specifications.

Senior Software Engineer, Freestyle Technology (June 2017 – July 2018, Melbourne)

An IoT technology company providing hardware and software solutions to service providers and municipalities across SE Asia and Australasia. Their solution involves “smart” devices and real time control.

I was pivotal in the design and architecture of a custom ETL and rules processing pipeline, ingesting from large deployments of devices, and the APIs required to consume this data.

Senior Software Engineer, KL Data/ARKpX (2015 – 2017, Remote)

A small team developing a cross-platform, encrypted storage solution much like ‘Dropbox’ but using client-side, PKI cryptography. Products in use by multiple government departments. Previously called ‘LockBox’.

I was the lead developer on the core cryptographic library to be used by multiple front-ends.

Software Engineer, Ayuda Hosting (2010 – 2015, Melbourne & remote)

A traditional, “bare-metal” hosting and consulting company with a small team based in the Melbourne CBD.

I was involved in all areas of network design, data centre rack planning & installation, project planning & cost estimation, client programming and consulting.

Web developer, Sensory Networks (2005 – 2006, Sydney)

Developed and maintained internal, cross-continent warehouse application (PHP, HTML, CSS, Lua, MySQL, XSLT)

Programmer/analyst, Contract (2002 – 2005, Outback Australia)

Custom solutions for mining contractors. Deployment of BSD VPNs, LDAP and email systems.

Programmer/DBA, National Telecoms Group (2001 – 2002, Sydney)

Development on a large CRM used by 300+ seat call centers (VB, SalesLogix)

Programmer/Sysadmin, DefineIT/Macquarine Health (2000 – 2001, Sydney)

Hardware support and maintenance of C/C++ code.

Volunteering

Education

2001 Bachelor of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Sydney

1994 Bachelor of Applied Science and Computer Technology, Swinburne University (deferred)