Anshuman P
Senior Engineer
Sydney
Summary
innovative Senior Software Engineer with around 20 years of experience in designing and delivering enterprise-scale software solutions. Proficient at fostering collaboration between technical teams and key business stakeholders through clear and effective communication strategies. Recognized for outstanding leadership skills in guiding development teams through complex, company-wide projects.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Senior Software Engineer
Atlassian
05.2025 - Current
- Enhanced software functionality by identifying and resolving complex technical issues.
- Mentored junior developers, fostering professional growth and enhancing team productivity.
- Spearheading the performance tuning of backend systems supporting Confluence/Bitbucket scale
- Leading efforts to modernize CI/CD pipelines with enhance observability and test reliability
- Mentoring junior engineers on distributed systems design and clean code practices
Lead Software Engineer
Macquarie Group
03.2024 - 05.2025
- Led the development of low-latency, high-throughput systems using Core Java and reactive programming, boosting system performance and reliability.
- Directed a cross-functional team to deliver scalable, cloud-native solutions on GCP, improving deployment efficiency and service uptime.
- Optimized system performance through JVM tuning and asynchronous programming, reducing response times across critical applications.
- Championed RESTful API standards and engineering best practices, driving consistent integration and code quality across teams.
Principal Software Engineer
Brixx (stealth startup)
12.2023 - 01.2024
- Played a key role in shaping the technical direction of the MVP, applying best practices in multithreading, REST API design, and software architecture.
- Enabled rapid delivery in a startup environment by leading code reviews, optimizing system latency, and promoting agile engineering workflows.
- Oversaw development and implementation of company-wide change controls, policies and standard operating procedures (SOPs).
Lead Software Engineer
Macquarie Group
04.2023 - 11.2023
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver comprehensive solutions for clients'' needs.
- Drove technical architecture decisions, integrating GraphQL and REST APIs to support scalable product roadmaps and enhance backend efficiency.
- Mentored engineers and enforced clean coding, performance tuning, and code quality standards through structured reviews and agile development practices.
Senior Software Engineer
Atlassian
10.2018 - 04.2023
- Led initiatives to refactor and modularize monolithic applications into scalable, cloud-first services, improving codebase agility and accelerating release cycles.
- Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams to design, prototype, and iterate on new product features, driving experimentation and data-informed enhancements.
Senior Software Engineer
Afterpay Touch
03.2018 - 10.2018
- Contributed to the development of secure, high-throughput payment services using Java and Spring Boot, ensuring low-latency performance under peak transaction loads.
- Enhanced system efficiency by refactoring multithreaded modules and promoting best practices in coding standards, testing, and service design
Software Engineer
Tyro Payments
11.2016 - 03.2018
- Re-design and develop terminal server using Asynchronous IO to reduce resource utilization
- Extract the ISO links to Visa and MasterCard into separate artifacts
- Design and develop a log replay tool to be used for regression and performance testing
- Re-develop the performance test suite to allow a broad range of payment transactions to be tested
Software Engineer
Cuscal Limited
10.2015 - 10.2016
- Design and development of end to end solution for the various provisioning and lifecycle API
- Develop reusable components for use across various applications
- Performance tuning of message processing to meet desired response times
- Provide test support and troubleshooting to ensure on time certification with Visa and MasterCard
- Provide effort estimates and planning support to Project management team
- Provide support to BA and product management team during the analysis, implementation and pilot phases
- Peer reviews to ensure high quality of deliverable to the test environments
Software Engineer
Macquarie Group
03.2015 - 10.2015
- Defect fixes and test support during the various cycles of SIT
- Analysis, design and development of various change requests for the BAU stream
Software Engineer
Visa Worldwide Pte Ltd
09.2012 - 02.2015
- Design and implement initial "steel-thread" flow for the application.
- Implement Async RESTful API handling the JSON messages inbound from the wallet-provider
- Performance tuning of the gateway to achieve a high throughput of up to 7K messages per second
- Integration with the wallet provider services and related troubleshooting in the pre-production environment
- Design and develop Health-check and failover service for messages outbound to the wallet-provider
- Guide the team towards a more matured dev ops set-up
- Analyse and customize source code of Apache Directory LDAP server to achieve embedded proxy behaviour intercepting the LDAP protocol request operations, subsequent enrichment of the request payload and delegating to the backend LDAP server
- Propose and re-design the regression testing framework allowing for automated testing of distributed applications
- Mentor peers in a team sized 20 about the available technology stack and best practices to achieve better test coverage & automation (both white box and black box)
Software Engineer
Barclays
07.2011 - 07.2012
- Design and implement the core ACL framework used for performing entitlement checks of trade books
- Implement post-trade lifecycle management module for processing corporate actions
- Ensure successful implementation of trade replication using JMS over 3 global regions
- Performance analysis and tuning
Software Engineer
Fidelity International
11.2010 - 07.2011
- Mentor peers on using latest frameworks and technologies to improve overall development efficiency
- High and Low level design & development for the overall functionality of Sophis Adapter
- Design and development of the Invest-One adapter message broker flows
- Build Set-up and integration on Team City
IT Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
08.2005 - 10.2010
- End to end architecture and solution design for enterprise web applications
- Liaise with business for requirement gathering followed by feasibility analysis and functional design
- Design and development of the application framework and critical modules of the application
- Ensure application security against possible threats and vulnerabilities when exposed over the internet
- Clearly communicate client-initiated scope creep to the PM to ensure project plan represents the actual state of affairs
- Establish coding best practices for the project and mentor team to ensure they are well understood and adhered to
- Conduct design walkthroughs and code reviews for team members to ensure high quality for software being delivered
- Act as single point of contact for the PM for project planning and for performance reviews for the team
- Lead small and mid sized teams terms of technologies and coding best practices
- Ensure 100% requirement traceability using CMMI defined templates
- Ensure on-time deliverables by efficiently flagging scope creep, managing external dependencies
- Performance Tuning of SQL Queries and Java components
- Develop reusable components where possible to reduce development and maintenance effort
Education
Bachelor's Degree - Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
01.2001 - 01.2005
Skills
Core Java
Web application development
API development experience
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Certification
Sun Certified Java Programmer
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer
Atlassian
05.2025 - Current
Lead Software Engineer
Macquarie Group
03.2024 - 05.2025
Principal Software Engineer
Brixx (stealth startup)
12.2023 - 01.2024
Lead Software Engineer
Macquarie Group
04.2023 - 11.2023
Senior Software Engineer
Atlassian
10.2018 - 04.2023
Senior Software Engineer
Afterpay Touch
03.2018 - 10.2018
Software Engineer
Tyro Payments
11.2016 - 03.2018
Software Engineer
Cuscal Limited
10.2015 - 10.2016
Software Engineer
Macquarie Group
03.2015 - 10.2015
Software Engineer
Visa Worldwide Pte Ltd
09.2012 - 02.2015
Software Engineer
Barclays
07.2011 - 07.2012
Software Engineer
Fidelity International
11.2010 - 07.2011
IT Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
08.2005 - 10.2010
Bachelor's Degree - Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
01.2001 - 01.2005
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