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Hello! I’m Michael Dela Cuesta, a principal engineer and tech lead with 18+ years of hands-on experience delivering enterprise-grade software across finance, insurance, climate tech, health, and blockchain. I excel at building and leading distributed teams, shaping engineering culture, and delivering high-quality software at scale. I’m passionate about AI integration, large language models, and orchestration of complex systems to accelerate delivery and improve quality. As a mentor and coach, I focus on elevating team capability, fostering collaboration, and driving architecture decisions that balance business goals with technical excellence. I enjoy turning ambitious ideas into reliable platforms through modern cloud-native patterns, observable systems, and pragmatic, outcome-driven engineering.…Hello! I’m Michael Dela Cuesta, a principal engineer and tech lead with 18+ years of hands-on experience delivering enterprise-grade software across finance, insurance, climate tech, health, and blockchain. I excel at building and leading distributed teams, shaping engineering culture, and delivering high-quality software at scale. I’m passionate about AI integration, large language models, and orchestration of complex systems to accelerate delivery and improve quality. As a mentor and coach, I focus on elevating team capability, fostering collaboration, and driving architecture decisions that balance business goals with technical excellence. I enjoy turning ambitious ideas into reliable platforms through modern cloud-native patterns, observable systems, and pragmatic, outcome-driven engineering.

Michael Dela Cuesta

Full Stack Developer, Back-End Developer, Front-End Developer, +2

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Hello! I’m Michael Dela Cuesta, a principal engineer and tech lead with 18+ years of hands-on experience delivering enterprise-grade software across finance, insurance, climate tech, health, and blockchain. I excel at building and leading distributed teams, shaping engineering culture, and delivering high-quality software at scale. I’m passionate about AI integration, large language models, and orchestration of complex systems to accelerate delivery and improve quality. As a mentor and coach, I focus on elevating team capability, fostering collaboration, and driving architecture decisions that balance business goals with technical excellence. I enjoy turning ambitious ideas into reliable platforms through modern cloud-native patterns, observable systems, and pragmatic, outcome-driven engineering.…Hello! I’m Michael Dela Cuesta, a principal engineer and tech lead with 18+ years of hands-on experience delivering enterprise-grade software across finance, insurance, climate tech, health, and blockchain. I excel at building and leading distributed teams, shaping engineering culture, and delivering high-quality software at scale. I’m passionate about AI integration, large language models, and orchestration of complex systems to accelerate delivery and improve quality. As a mentor and coach, I focus on elevating team capability, fostering collaboration, and driving architecture decisions that balance business goals with technical excellence. I enjoy turning ambitious ideas into reliable platforms through modern cloud-native patterns, observable systems, and pragmatic, outcome-driven engineering.

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Hello! I’m Michael Dela Cuesta, a principal engineer and tech lead with 18+ years of hands-on experience delivering enterprise-grade software across finance, insurance, climate tech, health, and blockchain. I excel at building and leading distributed teams, shaping engineering culture, and delivering high-quality software at scale. I’m passionate about AI integration, large language models, and orchestration of complex systems to accelerate delivery and improve quality.

As a mentor and coach, I focus on elevating team capability, fostering collaboration, and driving architecture decisions that balance business goals with technical excellence. I enjoy turning ambitious ideas into reliable platforms through modern cloud-native patterns, observable systems, and pragmatic, outcome-driven engineering.

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Work Experience

Technical Team Lead, Enterprise Platform Modernization at AMCS Group

January 1, 2024 - Present

Led an end-to-end migration of a legacy non-containerised application to a Kubernetes-native architecture, significantly improving deployment reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency. Championed OpenTelemetry across all platform applications, delivering unified distributed tracing and observability—eliminating blind spots in production. Designed and implemented containerised end-to-end test suites, enabling deterministic CI pipelines and measurably reducing post-release defects. Embedded AI-assisted development practices (LLMs) to accelerate code reviews, documentation generation, and architectural decision-making. Coached and mentored engineers on software design, architectural best practices, and emergent technologies including AI tooling and cloud-native patterns.

Tech Lead at PALO-IT Australia

August 1, 2020 - December 1, 2023

Architected and led development of a white-label React component library (MUI extension) shared across multiple product venues, enforcing consistent branding and UX at scale. Built a shared front-end security and utility library adopted across platform teams, reducing duplicated logic and improving compliance posture. Established and standardized the Azure DevOps pipeline flow for all Node/JavaScript packages, cutting CI overhead and improving developer experience.

Technical Lead at Insurance Australia Group (IAG) — CyberA 360

August 1, 2020 - December 1, 2023

Led technical delivery of a full lifecycle cyber insurance platform across a polyglot microservices stack (Node.js/TypeScript, C#, GoLang, Python) with AWS, Kubernetes, and PostgreSQL. Drove architectural decisions, migration strategies to cloud-native patterns, and mentored cross-functional squads to align with enterprise standards.

Software Architect at Smart Group Enterprises Australia (Remote)

September 1, 2016 - January 1, 2020

Architected a browser-based WYSIWYG design tool that converts user creations into print-ready high-resolution vector graphics; owned the full tech stack from Azure infra to Canvas/Fabric.js rendering engine. Led the design-to-print product line and ensured robust performance at scale.

Lead Developer at Accenture / Avanade Australia — Commonwealth Bank of Australia

November 1, 2014 - August 1, 2016

Led development for the SM SF Term Deposit platform, delivering modernization across a high-stakes banking product with C#, React, and TDD-driven practices.