Dylan Clement, Developer in Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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Dylan Clement

Verified Expert  in Engineering

Software Developer

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Toptal member since October 22, 2013

Bio

Dylan is a seasoned IT professional with over 20 years of experience spanning solution architecture, engineering leadership, and hands-on development. He has a proven track record in designing and delivering scalable, cloud-native applications across enterprise and startup environments. He's skilled in mentoring teams, aligning technical strategy with business goals, and driving modern software practices, including DevOps, evolutionary architecture, and DDD.

Portfolio

AFG
AWS IoT, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), AWS Lambda...
Xero
Architecture, .NET, AWS IoT, TypeScript, Docker
RAC Insurance WA
Azure, Web Architecture, DevOps

Experience

  • Microsoft Visual Studio - 10 years
  • C# - 10 years
  • ASP.NET MVC - 6 years
  • Node.js - 3 years
  • CoffeeScript - 3 years
  • Sublime Text - 3 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Amazon Web Services (AWS), .NET Core, Architecture

The most amazing...

...project I've been involved in was building the fixed asset service in Xero. I was responsible for migrating an important domain capability out of the monolith.

Work Experience

Technical Product Owner

2024 - 2025
AFG
  • Led a team of seven developers working closely with the PO to design and define the technical components of "what" we are doing and "how" we can do it.
  • Charged with product-level NFRs, ensuring the product is secure, performant, and maintainable.
  • Acted as a conduit between the architecture team and the delivery team, created HLD, and presented at the Architecture Review Board for approval.
Technologies: AWS IoT, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), AWS Lambda, GitHub Actions, TypeScript, React, .NET, C#

Technical Lead Engineer

2022 - 2024
Xero
  • Modernized in-app notification stack, mainly focused on moving the computing from EC2 to K8s and Lambda to ensure alignment with the architecture vision for the company.
  • Mentored and led a team of seven developers, with two seniors and two graduates.
  • Achieved over 50% reduction in average operational cost to run with mostly increased throughput rates.
Technologies: Architecture, .NET, AWS IoT, TypeScript, Docker

Solution Architect

2019 - 2022
RAC Insurance WA
  • Transitioned the main insurance application to the cloud with Azure.
  • Designed and developed a microservice architecture for building outside the monolith.
  • Architected the upgrade of the main insurance back-end system and modernizing technology.
Technologies: Azure, Web Architecture, DevOps

Lead Product Architect

2014 - 2019
Xero
  • Worked with fixed assets, business activity statements, onboarding new customers, small business architecture, and compliance reports as both a developer and an architect.
  • Architected products for multiple portfolios, guiding technical direction and assisting product managers in making informed decisions taking into account risks, and explaining benefits.
  • Helped out with AWS architecture and design for cloud-based systems.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, C#, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, .NET, C

Senior Developer

2011 - 2014
Adslot
  • Worked at a startup that created a premium advertisement management site for top-tier websites like ebay.com, realestate.com.au, seloger.com, and more.
  • Developed the server-side and web server environment in Node.js.
  • Worked with a wide variety of data stores, including MySQL, SQL Server 2008, Redis, and DynamoDB.
  • Operated on two-week scrum sprints for managing projects.
Technologies: Knockout (Knockout.js), Backbone.js, AngularJS, JADE, Less, C#, JavaScript, CoffeeScript

Senior Application Consultant

2010 - 2011
Coles Group
  • Planned a project to convert an existing Excel-based solution to a web-based system.
  • Administrated SharePoint for the merchandise IT team (50+ people).
  • Created SSIS batch scripts to pull data from various systems (forecasting, stock, etc.).
  • Created SSRS reports to provide reporting on usage of the tool, stock levels, waste, etc.
  • Designed and architected the application.
Technologies: Python, Shell Scripting, C++, Oracle PL/SQL, SharePoint, C#

Application Development Consultant

2005 - 2010
PBT Group
  • Designed and developed interfaces between a legacy mainframe and new SQL systems using C#, C++, Perl, and Unix scripts.
  • Designed, architected and defined specs for software.
  • Designed and developed front-end and web applications using C# and ASP.NET (v2.0 – v3.5).
  • Designed and developed multi-threaded server applications using TCP/IP sockets and web services.
  • Created multithreading of claims assessment and report generation engines.
Technologies: Perl, T-SQL (Transact-SQL), ASP.NET, C++, C#

Software Engineer/Team Lead

2003 - 2005
Thales Telematics
  • Led the development of server components in C++.
  • Maintained and optimized servers to achieve a sustained throughput of approx 2000 messages/second.
  • Assisted with design and system architecture.
  • Conducted advanced integrity checking and load testing on server applications.
  • Planned rollout and gathered requirements for installations, upgrades, and patches.
Technologies: C#, C++

Experience

Mobill mobile billing

Web application developed to enable tradesmen and contractors to invoice and accept credit card payments using their smartphones or tablets.

Adslot

http://www.adslot.com/
A start-up that specializes in managing premium advertising inventory for websites.

Education

2000 - 2002

Batchelors Degree in Bsc. Computer Science

University of Pretoria - Pretoria, South Africa

Certifications

SEPTEMBER 2017 - SEPTEMBER 2020

AWS Associate Developer

National Australian Institute of Technology

Skills

Libraries/APIs

Node.js, Backbone.js, jQuery UI, jQuery Validation, jQuery, DirectX, Facebook API, Highcharts, OpenGL, React

Tools

Microsoft Visual Studio, Git, Sublime Text, VirtualBox, GitHub, Xero, ReSharper, Bitbucket, Oh My Zsh, MySQL Workbench, GCC, Jenkins, Vim Text Editor, Mocha, Eclipse IDE, LINQ to SQL, Canvas 2D, Apache Maven, MonoDevelop, OpenVPN, SharePoint Designer, Blender, Android NDK, Aptana, Make (formely Integromat), Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)

Languages

C#, CoffeeScript, Sass, JavaScript, CSS3, Java, HTML5, Bash, C++, HTML, Less, JADE, T-SQL (Transact-SQL), Perl, C, Python, Ruby, NASM, UnrealScript, TypeScript

Frameworks

ASP.NET MVC 3, Bootstrap, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET MVC 5, Express.js, NHibernate, Entity, Ruby on Rails (RoR), OGRE, AngularJS, Knockout (Knockout.js), ASP.NET, .NET, .NET Core, ASP.NET MVC 6, Selenium, Boost

Platforms

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, SharePoint, Azure, AWS IoT, AWS Lambda

Storage

MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Redis, Neo4j, PostgreSQL, Oracle PL/SQL, Amazon DynamoDB

Paradigms

Web Architecture, DevOps

Other

Ajax, Software Development, Unix Shell Scripting, Shell Scripting, Architecture, IIS, GitHub Actions

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