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Hi, I’m Joseph Bonnici, a solutions architect and engineering leader with over a decade of experience delivering high-quality software across the iGaming and tech landscape. I enjoy turning complex business needs into scalable platforms, mentoring teams, and collaborating with product, QA, and design to ship reliable software on time. I thrive in fast-paced environments, value clear communication, and am passionate about building robust architectures, driving best practices, and helping people grow professionally.…Hi, I’m Joseph Bonnici, a solutions architect and engineering leader with over a decade of experience delivering high-quality software across the iGaming and tech landscape. I enjoy turning complex business needs into scalable platforms, mentoring teams, and collaborating with product, QA, and design to ship reliable software on time. I thrive in fast-paced environments, value clear communication, and am passionate about building robust architectures, driving best practices, and helping people grow professionally.

Joseph Bonnici

Architect, Full Stack Developer, Back-End Developer, +3

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Hi, I’m Joseph Bonnici, a solutions architect and engineering leader with over a decade of experience delivering high-quality software across the iGaming and tech landscape. I enjoy turning complex business needs into scalable platforms, mentoring teams, and collaborating with product, QA, and design to ship reliable software on time. I thrive in fast-paced environments, value clear communication, and am passionate about building robust architectures, driving best practices, and helping people grow professionally.…Hi, I’m Joseph Bonnici, a solutions architect and engineering leader with over a decade of experience delivering high-quality software across the iGaming and tech landscape. I enjoy turning complex business needs into scalable platforms, mentoring teams, and collaborating with product, QA, and design to ship reliable software on time. I thrive in fast-paced environments, value clear communication, and am passionate about building robust architectures, driving best practices, and helping people grow professionally.

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Hi, I’m Joseph Bonnici, a solutions architect and engineering leader with over a decade of experience delivering high-quality software across the iGaming and tech landscape. I enjoy turning complex business needs into scalable platforms, mentoring teams, and collaborating with product, QA, and design to ship reliable software on time.

I thrive in fast-paced environments, value clear communication, and am passionate about building robust architectures, driving best practices, and helping people grow professionally.

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Work Experience

Solutions Architect at Prophecy International Pty Ltd

January 1, 2025 - October 20, 2025

Developed advanced real-time analytics and dashboards platforms. Led the development of an integration platform enabling users to build data pipelines for extracting data from REST APIs, Kafka, and SQS, saving it in Elasticsearch for reporting. Established IC/CD pipelines and orchestrated IT infrastructure on Oracle Cloud, including Kubernetes, MySQL databases, API gateway, IAM policies, VCN, logging, dashboards, Redis, and Elasticsearch cluster. Coordinated training on Kubernetes, Docker, Code-driven infrastructure, Microservices, and Kafka; improved Agile practices; promoted SOLID and clean code. Led modernization/refactoring initiatives and built testing strategies to improve reliability and team performance.

Engineering Manager at Playnetic Malta

January 1, 2025 - Present

Led cross-functional engineering efforts across the iGaming platform, overseeing product, engineering, QA, and architecture. Managed internal front-end and back-end delivery, and two customer-facing casino websites. Drove security hardening, governance, and compliance initiatives to strengthen system resilience and minimize risk. Collaborated with Product, Engineers, QA, Architects, DBAs, and DevOps to ensure timely, high-quality feature releases. Implemented a modern feature-release cadence and on-call processes; restructured the team into two cross-functional Agile squads to improve focus and delivery efficiency. Created full-system architecture overview to improve cross‑team understanding and scalability; established company-wide security hardening initiative; led onboarding of a company-wide secure infrastructure.

Engineering Manager at Planetic Malta

January 1, 2025 - Present

Responsible for leading engineering efforts across the iGaming platform, aligning product, engineering, QA and DevOps. Built a cross-functional Agilesquad, restructured teams, and delivered scalable architecture diagrams and release processes. Onboarded eight new engineers and created system architecture overview to improve cross-team understanding and scalability. Drove security hardening initiatives and governed onboarding and compliance processes.

Solutions Architect at Prophecy International Pty Ltd

January 1, 2025 - October 20, 2025

Designed and implemented advanced real-time analytics dashboards and a data integration platform capable of pulling data from REST APIs, Kafka, and SQL sources. Established CICD pipelines, and deployed a foundational microservices architecture on Oracle Cloud with Kubernetes and MySQL.

Senior Backend Developer / Technical Lead at Gaming Innovation Group

January 1, 2021 - October 20, 2025

Led a team of six engineers to meet tight deadlines. Worked directly with senior executives, account managers, lawyers and stakeholders to translate business requirements into functional specs. Implemented features for user management, content management, user registrations, and access control; collaborated with Compliance on responsible gaming features such as player limits and self-exclusions; supported NOC and Technical Account Managers with live issues; participated in refactoring initiatives; built live reports to complement data-warehouse reports.

Senior Backend Developer at Gaming Innovation Group (GiG)

January 1, 2021 - October 20, 2025

Led engineering efforts across the iGaming platform and internal admin panel. Implemented CI/CD practices, onboarded eight new engineers across two months, authored comprehensive technical documentation, and helped redesign a cross-team architecture to improve scalability and resilience.

Senior Developer at Betclic Malta Services

January 1, 2016 - October 20, 2025

Responsible for implementing and maintaining features and tooling used by the marketing team to increase player retention. Worked on introducing new bonus types for casino and sports verticals and implemented systems to track traffic from affiliates.

Senior Developer at Betclic Malta Services

January 1, 2016 - October 20, 2025

Implemented and maintained new casino and sports betting features, including bonus types, and systems to track traffic from affiliates. Worked with marketing and product teams to optimize player engagement and retention.

Senior Developer at 3CX

January 1, 2015 - October 20, 2025

Worked on a mobile device management project that allowed users to remotely control, secure, and track mobile devices. Started as a mid-level developer and progressed to lead a small team responsible for developing the Web UI and backend for the admin panel.

Senior Developer at 3CX St Julian's

January 1, 2015 - October 20, 2025

Led development on a mobile device management project for 3CX, collaborating with senior executives, account managers, lawyers and other stakeholders to convert business requirements into functional specifications. Supervised a development team, defined milestones, and contributed to architectural discussions to deliver a robust solution.