Jared Heremaia

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Engineering lead and full-stack engineer with 20+ years delivering production software across fintech, retail, and SaaS.

About

Engineering lead and full-stack engineer with 20+ years delivering production software across fintech, retail, and SaaS. Deep hands-on experience building and operating enterprise systems using Ruby on Rails, React, Svelte, and TypeScript, with strong incident ownership and infrastructure reliability.

I lead teams through Agile/Scrumban transformations, coach modern AI-assisted development tools, and own quality, security, and compliance practices (including SOC 2). I focus on shipping secure, maintainable platforms and improving delivery performance end-to-end.

  • 21 years' experience
  • Joined June 2026

Industry experience

  • Financial Services
  • Retail
  • Professional Services
  • Software & Internet

Work experience· 7 roles

Engineering Lead / Full-Stack Engineer · XpandSep 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 3 mos

Led full-stack development of a large-scale Ruby on Rails enterprise HR/onboarding SaaS platform with React, Svelte, and TypeScript front ends, hosted on AWS. Designed and shipped multi-factor authentication (MFA) to production, improving security across enterprise accounts. Migrated authorization from CanCan to Pundit to improve maintainability and access-control clarity. Owned SOC 2 compliance documentation and expanded engineering/system-process documentation coverage. Authored complete API documentation for the platform version using TypeSpec. Led Agile transformation to a Scrumban model with regular sprints, retrospectives, and refinements. Coached engineers on AI-assisted development tooling (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Greptile) and mentored junior developers. Managed CI/CD pipelines across CircleCI and Jenkins and monitored production using Datadog, Rollbar, and SigNoz.

Senior Engineer / Agile Coach / Scrum Master · XpandSep 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 3 mos

Full-stack developer leading Agile transformation; implemented MFA in production; migrated from Cancan to Pundit; improved engineering and system process documentation; authored API docs with TypeSpec; transitioned the team to SCRUM/Kanban with regular high-performance Sprints, retrospectives and refinements.

Technical Team Leader · Westpac Bank (Unisys)Feb 2011 – Sep 2021 · 10 yrs 8 mos

Subject matter expert for the teller system (Payments and Enquiries) across 200+ branches and 900+ ATMs; led a 16-year tenure with responsibilities including guiding a team of engineers, incident escalation, and technical leadership; contributed to upgrades of the Unisys Financial Transaction Manager environment.

Build & Technical Support Engineer · Unisys (client: Foodstuffs NZ)Jun 2006 – Aug 2007 · 1 yr 3 mos
Lead Build Engineer · Foodstuffs NZ (Wellington)Jun 2006 – Aug 2007 · 1 yr 3 mos
Lead Developer / Technical Team Leader · Unisys (client: Westpac Bank)Jun 2005 – Sep 2021 · 16 yrs 4 mos
Lead Developer · Westpac Bank (Unisys)Jun 2005 – Jan 2011 · 5 yrs 8 mos

Education

Diploma of Software Engineering · Wellington Institute of Technology2030 – 2004
Diploma in Software Engineering · Wellington Institute of Technology2004

Certifications and awards

Silver Award for services to Westpac2006 – 2026

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