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Hi, I’m Chris Wijaya, a data engineering, DevOps, BI analytics and software development professional with 13+ years of experience. I’ve helped organisations across multiple industries deliver strategic goals by building scalable data platforms, robust pipelines, and analytics that matter. I’m passionate about turning complex data problems into practical, maintainable solutions and collaborating closely with stakeholders to drive impact.
Based in Melbourne, I enjoy mentoring teammates, aligning compliance and governance with pragmatic delivery, and continuously refining architectures to support growing data needs and ML workloads.
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Work Experience
Senior Data Platform Engineer at ubank
July 1, 2024 - PresentResponsible for managing Databricks and AWS IaaC, managed new Databricks feature releases and other system integrations. Developed, reviewed and optimised data pipeline transformation logic.
Senior Data Platform Engineer at ubank
July 1, 2024 - PresentResponsible for managing Databricks and AWS IaaC, managed new Databricks feature releases and other system integrations. Developed, reviewed and optimised data pipeline transformation logic.
Senior DataOps Engineer-Analyst at SEEK
June 30, 2024 - September 26, 2025Data Services team member; developed data ingestion pipelines into Unified Data Platform. Developed and maintained financial BI data source of truths. Analysed requirements and implemented data testing tools.
Senior DataOps Engineer-Analyst at SEEK
June 1, 2024 - September 26, 2025Data Services team member; developed data ingestion pipelines into Unified Data Platform. Developed and maintained financial BI data source of truths. Analysed requirements and implemented data testing tools.
Data/Integration Engineer at REEJIG
March 31, 2023 - September 26, 2025Reported to the Chief Data-Science Officer, liaised with solution architects to navigate stakeholders around complex/time-critical customer implementation strategies. Developed event-driven data pipeline to support MLOps. Mentored data engineers/scientists on coding standards and architectural decisions.
Data/Integration Engineer at REEJIG
March 1, 2023 - September 26, 2025Reported to the Chief Data-Science Officer, liaised with solution architects to navigate stakeholders around complex/time-critical customer implementation strategies. Developed event-driven data pipeline to support MLOps. Mentored data engineers/scientists on coding standards and architectural decisions.
Senior DataOps Engineer at Scentre Group
January 31, 2022 - September 26, 2025Collaborated with business and technical stakeholders implementing conjoined stream and batch data pipelines to redefine Data Warehouse as Unified Data Platform. Leading and mentoring a team of two data engineers, responsible for expediting a major data pipeline migration. Reporting to the Head of Data and Analytics to provide regular progress, risk, expectation and estimate updates and ensuring deliverables are carried out in accordance with the company’s targets with measurable metrics.
Senior DataOps Engineer at Scentre Group
January 31, 2022 - September 26, 2025Collaborated with business and technical stakeholders implementing conjoined stream and batch data pipelines to redefine Data Warehouse as Unified Data Platform. Leading and mentoring a team of two data engineers, responsible for expediting a major data pipeline migration. Reporting to the Head of Data and Analytics with regular progress, risk, expectation and estimate updates.
Data Engineer Lead at Cloudten Industries – now CyberCX
April 30, 2021 - September 26, 2025Scoped requirements with business and technical customers, managing deliverable expectations, Architected Data Analytics Platform in a secured environment of semi-government client. Mentored a team of two data engineers to achieve a high standard of project’s deliverables.
Data Engineer Lead at Cloudten Industries – now CyberCX
April 1, 2021 - September 26, 2025Scoped requirements with business and technical customers, Architected Data Analytics Platform in a secured environment of semi-government client. Mentored a team of two data engineers to achieve a high standard of project deliverables.
Data Engineer at Massive Interactive – acquired by Deltatre
December 31, 2020 - September 26, 2025Architected and implemented scalable Big-Data Pipeline of multi-tenanted SaaS digital content smart targeting platform. Reported to the Director of Engineering and Product Owner. Actively proposed and reviewed Architectural changes through Architectural Decision Records reviews. Implemented lambda architecture Data Lake and Data Warehouse Solution in a greenfield project setup on AWS. Enabled Real Time Streaming Analytics of over hundreds of thousands of simultaneous events per minute and daily batch processing of over 50GB per run that feed insight data to SaaS platform.
Data Engineer at Massive Interactive - acquired by Deltatre
December 1, 2020 - September 26, 2025Architected and implemented scalable Big-Data Pipeline of multi-tenanted SaaS digital content smart targeting platform. Reported to the Director of Engineering and Product Owner. Implemented lambda architecture Data Lake and Data Warehouse solution enabling real-time streaming analytics and large-scale daily batch processing.
Senior Data Engineer at Austroads (Servian)
January 31, 2019 - September 26, 2025Developed and optimised service-oriented architecture data pipeline solution for National Exchange of Vehicles and Drivers Information System to facilitate Real Time interstate Vehicles and Driver information exchange. Achieved real-time data pipeline with SLA of 6K messages per minute; remodelled and optimised Oracle DB.
Senior Data Engineer at Servian (Austroads project)
January 31, 2019 - September 26, 2025Senior Data Engineer on Austroads engagement; developed service-oriented architecture data pipeline for National Exchange of Vehicles and Drivers Information System; Real-time data pipeline with SLA; optimized Oracle DB performance.
Big Data Engineer at Reserve Bank of Australia
March 31, 2018 - September 26, 2025Implemented 2 synchronised Hortonworks Data Platforms on a highly secured on-premise infrastructures. One of the first to integrate Microsoft PDW with Hive Data Warehouse on MS Polybase.
Big Data Engineer at Servian (Reserve Bank of Australia project)
March 1, 2018 - September 26, 2025Implemented dual Hortonworks Data Platforms on highly secured on-premises infrastructure; integrated Microsoft PDW with Hive Data Warehouse via Polybase.
Web/Full Stack Developer at Multiple remote/internal projects
June 30, 2017 - September 26, 2025Developed Chatbot and Tweetbot on Google Cloud Platform that enabled users to interactively request for various analytical data through chat/tweet to promote Servian consultancy services on GCP conference. Built CTP data validator on AWS Lambda, API Gateway stack for DFSI - Department of Customer Service.
Web/Full Stack Developer at Servian (Various remote/internal projects)
June 1, 2017 - September 26, 2025Developed Chatbot and Tweetbot on Google Cloud Platform; built CTP data validator on AWS Lambda, API Gateway stack for DFSI; contributed to multiple remote/internal projects.
Analyst Programmer at Stauff Corporation
February 28, 2017 - September 26, 2025Responsible for all software-related aspects of the company; developed ERP, BI and Warehouse Management systems. Automated sales and purchasing through EDI; 35% improvement in warehouse processing efficiency.
Analyst Programmer at Stauff Corporation
February 1, 2017 - September 26, 2025Developed and maintained ERP, BI and Warehouse Management systems. Improved warehouse processing efficiency by 35%, automated sales and purchasing through EDI, and produced stock level forecasts and financial reports.
Education
Bachelor of Computer Science at University of Wollongong
January 1, 2009 - January 1, 2011Diploma of Information Technology at UOW College Australia
January 1, 2008 - January 1, 2009Bachelor of Computer Science (Major: Multimedia & Game Development) at University of Wollongong
January 1, 2009 - December 31, 2011Diploma of Information Technology at UOW College Australia
January 1, 2008 - December 31, 2009Qualifications
Industry Experience
Financial Services, Professional Services, Software & Internet, Government, Media & Entertainment
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