I am an accomplished Agile practitioner with lean tendencies and an ever-present focus on active leadership to deliver quality solutions which do the right thing. I thrive in a high performance, high trust culture with an emphasis on grass roots design and development. Comfortable with autonomy within rails, I am experienced working in persistent teams engaging on product in a lean start-up environment as well as more established engineering in the cloud. I have led cross-functional teams in cloud-native, microservices ecosystems, emphasising clean architecture, DevOps and rapid, safe delivery. My approach blends hands-on delivery with mentorship and process improvement to sustain high quality outcomes and durable product momentum.

Lee Dickenson

I am an accomplished Agile practitioner with lean tendencies and an ever-present focus on active leadership to deliver quality solutions which do the right thing. I thrive in a high performance, high trust culture with an emphasis on grass roots design and development. Comfortable with autonomy within rails, I am experienced working in persistent teams engaging on product in a lean start-up environment as well as more established engineering in the cloud. I have led cross-functional teams in cloud-native, microservices ecosystems, emphasising clean architecture, DevOps and rapid, safe delivery. My approach blends hands-on delivery with mentorship and process improvement to sustain high quality outcomes and durable product momentum.

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I am an accomplished Agile practitioner with lean tendencies and an ever-present focus on active leadership to deliver quality solutions which do the right thing. I thrive in a high performance, high trust culture with an emphasis on grass roots design and development. Comfortable with autonomy within rails, I am experienced working in persistent teams engaging on product in a lean start-up environment as well as more established engineering in the cloud.

I have led cross-functional teams in cloud-native, microservices ecosystems, emphasising clean architecture, DevOps and rapid, safe delivery. My approach blends hands-on delivery with mentorship and process improvement to sustain high quality outcomes and durable product momentum.

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Work Experience

Senior Engineer at Qantas Hotels & Loyalty
November 1, 2024 - November 4, 2025
Major enhancements to core APIs as part of cross-functional product squads; driving end-to-end delivery with a focus on test strategy, performance and reliability; implementing spatial search features; profiling and refactoring asynchronous code; distributed tracing instrumentation; and building operational dashboards.
Senior Engineer at Nearmap
January 1, 2024 - June 1, 2024
Helped design and implement a new pricing model; led requirements sessions and collaborated on system design to understand impact; strong emphasis on clean architecture, mentoring and automation with GitOps practices.
Senior Engineer at SEEK
January 1, 2023 - December 1, 2023
Go / TypeScript / NodeJS microservices, AWS Lambda, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Buildkite / GraphQL / ReactJS; responsible for integrating SEEK Asia Pacific brands into the core AU/NZ platform; guided test strategy, CI improvements and high standards of documentation.
Senior Engineer at Flexera
July 1, 2022 - December 1, 2022
Enhancement of Flexera One; helped uplift agile discipline, understood distributed event streaming, delivered API enhancements and database migrations; focused on improving delivery predictability and team cohesion.
Senior Engineer at Latitude Financial Services
August 1, 2021 - June 1, 2022
Motor Loan API: enabled B2B integration capabilities; analyzed domain requirements, designed and implemented integration with internal lending systems, and ensured strong automated testing and peer reviews.
Senior Engineer at Belong [Telstra]
September 1, 2020 - August 1, 2021
Speed To Market – Product Catalogue: delivered rapid changes to products in market; participated in PI planning; collaborated across stakeholders to ensure alignment and high-quality test coverage.
Senior Engineer at Latitude Financial Services
September 1, 2018 - September 1, 2020
New Insurance Platform: contributed to design and integration work for a microservices-based vendor product; encryption at rest/in transit, IAM controls, and PCI DSS considerations; strong emphasis on QA and peer review.
Senior Engineer at Australia Post Identity Services
April 1, 2018 - September 1, 2018
Identity Services (National Police Check) and Secure Document Storage: serverless and decoupled architecture; stakeholder liaison; emphasis on security, architecture and DevOps culture; introduced component-based model for serverless development and built real-time monitoring.
Senior Engineer at Australia Post Digital Mailbox / Trusted Solutions Centre
November 1, 2014 - March 1, 2018
MyPost Digital Mailbox: JVM-based Clojure microservices; Strangler pattern around monolithic system; SAFe agile; contribution to architecture and delivery across multiple squads.
Senior Engineer at Sensis
March 1, 2011 - July 1, 2013
White Pages, WhereIS: highly disciplined agile teams; J2EE back end and JQuery front end UI work; extensive pair programming and collaborative development.
Senior Engineer at Australia Post Digital Delivery Centre
August 1, 2013 - November 1, 2014

Education

BEng Software Engineering at Sheffield University, UK
January 1, 1993 - January 1, 1996
A-Levels at Sutton Community High School 6th Form College
January 1, 1991 - January 1, 1993
GCSEs at Sutton Community High School
January 1, 1986 - January 1, 1991

Qualifications

Sun Certified Developer for the Java 2 Platform
November 30, 2000 - November 3, 2025
Sun Certified Business Component Developer for the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5
November 30, 2000 - November 3, 2025
Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform
November 30, 2000 - November 3, 2025

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Professional Services, Financial Services, Media & Entertainment, Education

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