Arie Oldman, Senior Software Engineer

Sydney, Australia • +61 432 934 970 • arie@less.coffee

Software engineer with 6 years of experience, working across modern and legacy code. I’m most interested in feature-leading projects which solve complex problems and have a clear business impact.

Professional Experience

Feature lead for Juniper Side Effect Check-In, where I directed a team of 3 engineers (including myself) and worked with a product manager to implement a new side effect questionnaire which surfaces only when appropriate and intelligently triages patients to connect them with practitioners, improving the patient outcomes for medicated weight loss.

Directed and developed the implementation of a new asynchronous Timesheet Actions backend (PHP, MySQL), for which I coordinated a team of 5 other backend engineers, 1 product manager and 1 UX designer, scrum-style. This project was crucial in business objective to acquire a strategic partner, enabling delivery of over $3m USD in additional ARR.

Directed and developed the Operations API project (PHP, Redis) to enable teams to manage state for long-running asynchronous tasks, improving system performance by maximising parallelisation and unifying the approach across the organisation.

Directed and developed the Distributed Mutex project (PHP, Redis) to enable teams to synchronise procedures across different system processes and user sessions, improving quality by reducing deadlocks and data races, at the same time unifying the approach across the organisation.

Developed a new Timesheet search engine (Opensearch, Go, MySQL), which played a critical role in the business objective of acquiring new strategic partners.

Planned and delivered the backend APIs (PHP, MySQL) of the Pay Comparison feature with a team of 6 engineers, 1 product manager and 1 designer to bolster Deputy’s compliance offering by providing tools for the Better Off Overall Test (BOOT). This supported the business objectives of targeting mid-market accounts and contract renewals for strategic partners.

Mentored two interns, guiding them through their 3-month intern projects into permanent positions at Deputy, using pair programming, 1-1s and code review.

Contributed to bug fixes, quality-of-life improvements, and analytics telemetry in the Spriggy platform.

Improve internal productivity by creating data visualisation software for network topology, web utilities for handset testing and traffic rating, and data cleaning automations (PHP, Javascript, Perl).

Self-design, self-develop, and self-host personal blog at less.coffee, using the Hugo site builder as a base.

Creator of open-source project Deathrun Neue (61 stars, 18 contributors), a gamemode for Garry’s Mod.

Create and sell addon products for Garry’s Mod servers to enrich the player’s online experience, written in the Lua programming language (4805 units sold). Managed sales, promotions and marketing media using the gmodstore marketplace platform.

Education

Published undergrad thesis Inline DDoS Detection for Small to Medium Businesses, which examines software-defined networking approaches to intrusion detection and mitigation on the small (home) to medium (small business) scale.