Gentle Joseph

Scope of work

• ▸Shipping the Self Managed Super Fund (SMSF) product with the SMSF squad. Brings retirement portfolios into the same Stake app Australians already use for ASX and Wall St investing.
• ▸Building for mobile alongside web. Shipping native iOS and Android features in Ionic and Angular, sitting next to the consumer web app.
• ▸Pitching in on the cross-team brand refresh, helping take the new visual system into consumer surfaces.
• ▸Helping the team stand up their Nx monorepo, getting the workspace, generators, and shared tooling in shape.
• ▸Setting up the component library from scratch so squads share one source of truth across the consumer apps.
• ▸Driving the migration to Angular 20, untangling deprecated patterns and rolling the codebase forward.

1. Technical Lead2023 → 2025
2. Senior Software Engineer2022 → 2023
3. Software Engineer2020 → 2022

Highlights

• •Migrated the legacy C# monolith to Angular inside a year. Performance and maintainability both jumped.
• •Led the Angular to Next.js migration as the frontend stack moved on. Set up a micro-frontends architecture so smaller squads could own their own domains.
• •Built the Cashrewards design system from zero. Every surface ended up running off one source of truth.
• •Built a Jamstack setup for marketing and retail media. They could spin up brand landing pages and campaign pages themselves through a headless CMS, with 90%+ Core Web Vitals.
• •Won the company-wide employee award for the engineering work behind the platform overhaul.
• •Won an internal hackathon for a new product search that made it easier to find what you were after.
• •Interviewed and onboarded offshore engineers and got them embedded without the code-quality bar slipping.
• •Mentored juniors and people pivoting from non-engineering roles into frontend work.

Scope of work

• ▸Led the front-end and retail-media roadmap. Owned strategy and architecture across the consumer web stack.
• ▸Pushed the move to server-side rendering and static site generation. SEO went up 30% and pages got faster for 2M+ shoppers.
• ▸Built the design system and component library. Cut UI build time across squads and kept product and brand in sync.
• ▸Partnered with product, design, and engineering to ship features end-to-end. Ran two-week sprints, Scrum and Kanban as it suited the work.
• ▸Led a team of 12 frontend engineers. Ran code reviews and built internal tooling that took friction out of the day-to-day.
• ▸Stepped in beyond the immediate team on cross-cutting work, internal tools, and mentoring across the engineering org.
• ▸Set up the analytics and event-tracking stack (mParticle, GA, GTM, Amplitude, Optimizely, VWO) so product decisions had real signal behind them.
• ▸Set performance budgets and built dashboards that flagged regressions before they shipped.

Highlights

• •Won the company hackathon with a new telehealth concept.
• •Took the hackathon idea through to a production telehealth platform that opened up a new revenue line for the business.

Scope of work

• ▸Designed and built mobile-first digital health interfaces in React and Redux.
• ▸Built a real-time tele-health chat app from kick-off through to launch.
• ▸Wired AI signals from the backend through REST APIs and WebSockets so clinicians and patients had richer interactions.
• ▸Kept the core products running. Shipped fixes and pushed in new features as they came up.
• ▸Worked closely with design and product to take ideas into healthcare features that actually shipped.

Highlights

• •Built the Analytics-based Lending (ABL) platform solo for DBS India. Cut loan processing from weeks down to 7 days.

Scope of work

• ▸Led frontend engineering for digital banking products. Worked with design agencies and stakeholders all the way through to launch.
• ▸Built and scaled Angular apps that ran millions of financial transactions a day.
• ▸Mentored juniors and improved onboarding. Raised the bar on code quality, testing, and process.

Scope of work

• ▸Built reusable components and user-facing features in Angular, with performance and accessibility front of mind.
• ▸Worked with the backend team on the API contract and pushed on performance and scale.
• ▸Shipped work covering web analytics, usability, and whatever the client needed shipped next.
• ▸Did the manual and automated testing pass plus the debugging, so things held up across browsers.

Scope of work

• ▸Built internal web apps in Django, Python, MySQL, and AngularJS to take manual steps out of operations.
• ▸Kept mission-critical systems running and pushed the developer tooling forward. Worked with senior engineers on what new tech was worth bringing in.