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I’m Anthony Barry, a Principal Software Engineer and Fractional CTO with 25+ years designing software platforms across healthcare, fintech, media, government, SaaS, and automation-heavy environments. I combine hands-on engineering with strategic leadership to build cloud-native architectures, scalable systems, and reliable delivery pipelines. My focus is on AI-assisted engineering, QA automation, and platform modernization that enables faster, safer releases. Most recently I’ve led cloud foundations for healthcare platforms, built AI-assisted Playwright test generation workflows using LangChain, RAG, LlamaIndex, and DOM context, and created automation platforms that boost engineering throughput and quality. I enjoy mentoring teams, reducing technical risk, and shaping technical strategy to support ambitious product goals.…I’m Anthony Barry, a Principal Software Engineer and Fractional CTO with 25+ years designing software platforms across healthcare, fintech, media, government, SaaS, and automation-heavy environments. I combine hands-on engineering with strategic leadership to build cloud-native architectures, scalable systems, and reliable delivery pipelines. My focus is on AI-assisted engineering, QA automation, and platform modernization that enables faster, safer releases. Most recently I’ve led cloud foundations for healthcare platforms, built AI-assisted Playwright test generation workflows using LangChain, RAG, LlamaIndex, and DOM context, and created automation platforms that boost engineering throughput and quality. I enjoy mentoring teams, reducing technical risk, and shaping technical strategy to support ambitious product goals.

Anthony Barry

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I’m Anthony Barry, a Principal Software Engineer and Fractional CTO with 25+ years designing software platforms across healthcare, fintech, media, government, SaaS, and automation-heavy environments. I combine hands-on engineering with strategic leadership to build cloud-native architectures, scalable systems, and reliable delivery pipelines. My focus is on AI-assisted engineering, QA automation, and platform modernization that enables faster, safer releases. Most recently I’ve led cloud foundations for healthcare platforms, built AI-assisted Playwright test generation workflows using LangChain, RAG, LlamaIndex, and DOM context, and created automation platforms that boost engineering throughput and quality. I enjoy mentoring teams, reducing technical risk, and shaping technical strategy to support ambitious product goals.…I’m Anthony Barry, a Principal Software Engineer and Fractional CTO with 25+ years designing software platforms across healthcare, fintech, media, government, SaaS, and automation-heavy environments. I combine hands-on engineering with strategic leadership to build cloud-native architectures, scalable systems, and reliable delivery pipelines. My focus is on AI-assisted engineering, QA automation, and platform modernization that enables faster, safer releases. Most recently I’ve led cloud foundations for healthcare platforms, built AI-assisted Playwright test generation workflows using LangChain, RAG, LlamaIndex, and DOM context, and created automation platforms that boost engineering throughput and quality. I enjoy mentoring teams, reducing technical risk, and shaping technical strategy to support ambitious product goals.

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I’m Anthony Barry, a Principal Software Engineer and Fractional CTO with 25+ years designing software platforms across healthcare, fintech, media, government, SaaS, and automation-heavy environments. I combine hands-on engineering with strategic leadership to build cloud-native architectures, scalable systems, and reliable delivery pipelines. My focus is on AI-assisted engineering, QA automation, and platform modernization that enables faster, safer releases.

Most recently I’ve led cloud foundations for healthcare platforms, built AI-assisted Playwright test generation workflows using LangChain, RAG, LlamaIndex, and DOM context, and created automation platforms that boost engineering throughput and quality. I enjoy mentoring teams, reducing technical risk, and shaping technical strategy to support ambitious product goals.

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Fractional CTO at GOTO.HEALTH

January 1, 2026 - Present

Serve as Fractional CTO for an Australian healthcare booking platform, leading architecture, engineering process, cloud foundations, delivery standards, and quality strategy. Established stronger GCP cloud foundations, operational guardrails, and delivery practices to support reliable scaling and more predictable releases. Introduced structured AI-assisted development processes through Jira to improve implementation consistency, review quality, and delivery flow. Set up modern testing foundations using Agent Mantis and Playwright, with developers creating Page Object Models and QA verifying, extending, and hardening the automation layer. Drove a shift-left testing model aligning engineering, QA, AI-assisted development, and CI/CD into a repeatable software delivery process. Provided technical leadership across architecture, delivery planning, cloud cost optimisation, release confidence, and engineering process improvement.

Principal Software Engineer / Platform Architect at Agent Mantis Pty Ltd

January 1, 2025 - Present

Designed and built Agent Mantis, a cloud-native Playwright orchestration and engineering automation platform for scalable execution, reporting, alerting, and workflow automation. Architected the core platform across GCP, with support for distributed workflow runners across GCP, AWS, and DigitalOcean. Built a no-code orchestration layer for managing Playwright execution, workflow routing, operational automation, and integration into existing delivery pipelines. Enabled teams to connect and run existing Playwright test assets without rebuilding their frameworks inside a closed platform. Designed AI-assisted Playwright test generation using LangChain, RAG, and LlamaIndex, combining Playwright rules, selector guidance, DOM context, and ARIA snapshots. Created retrieval-driven prompt workflows combining Playwright knowledge, live page context, and UI structure to generate stronger first-pass automated tests. Designed LLM-powered failure analysis that converts failed test output into clear,

Lead QA Automation Engineer / Principal Engineer at SIMPLE KYC PTY LTD

January 1, 2024 - January 1, 2025

Led a major transformation of QA automation strategy, tooling, and engineering quality practices. Migrated the organisation from Katalon to Playwright, designing a scalable Page Object Model architecture. Built an MCP server to support pre-commit regression testing and dynamic code/test analysis. Implemented self-healing selector concepts, flakiness detection, visual testing, and accessibility testing. Integrated Playwright into CI/CD using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Docker. Mentored engineers and improved automation practices across the delivery team, improving release confidence, test maintainability, and defect detection.

Independent AI Platform Engineer at KATEYCARES

January 1, 2024 - January 1, 2025

Built an AI platform concept to assist families navigating the Australian Aged Care system. Implemented domain-tuned RAG, selective fine-tuning, real-time intent classification, and multi-agent routing. Designed a visual progress-tracking interface for care journeys and explored empathetic, domain-specific conversational AI for a complex care environment.

Lead Engineer at SIMPLE KYC PTY LTD

January 1, 2022 - January 1, 2024

Reported to the CTO and delivered large-scale backend, automation, and data-processing systems across a complex data and onboarding environment. Designed microservices ingesting data from thousands of sources and delivered full-stack solutions across Angular, Node.js, PHP, Python, SQL, NoSQL, Elastic, and BigQuery. Built a GPT-4 Turbo bot that reduced onboarding time for new data sources from approximately 40 hours to around 2 hours. Engineered billing automation across the product suite and designed a Linux IPC daemon that reduced process creation time from 12 seconds to 50 milliseconds. Coordinated distributed engineering teams across multiple countries.