Hamish Sadler

Digital Product Development, Achitecture and Innovation Leadership

Australia

About

Published senior leading technologist with 20+ years of leadership experience in systems and products design, development and delivery in different verticals, owner of multiple patents and awards.

Experience

  • CTPO at Xiippy
    Apr 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 4 mos

    ☑ Built, led and managed a high-performance team (people, budget, talent, resource, project/program, tech, architecture) ☑ led the delivery of 2.5m lines of code with next-level capital efficiency ☑ conceived, verified, formulated, architected, owned the security design of, and shipped products with 3 world's first offerings: ☑ end-to-end encrypted privacy-preserving smart receipts, ☑"Tap & Leave" receipt-and-rewards-inclusive checkout without requiring email and phone number disclosure at the counter, ☑ Retail's first-ever auto-populating CRM. An ultra-sophisticated scalable and next-gen-secure engineering marvel, encompassing ☑ multi-stack data-rich unified payment gateway SDKs for .NET, PHP, NodeJS, Go and Java, ☑ native mobile apps, progressive web apps, zero-knowledge SaaS dashboards, and a printer driver for Windows. ☑ along the way & for the community: DynamoDB driver for asp .net core membership, DynamoDB storage provider for OpenIDDict, DynamoDb storage provider for Pixel identity + Terminal bindings for Xamarin Xiippy is also the birthplace for world's first privacy-preserving PII Verification platform, PiiAuth.com.

  • CTPO at PIIAuth
    Nov 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 9 mos

    ☑ Managed and led the dev org in all aspects (people, budget, talent, resource, project/program, tech, architecture) ☑ Led the architecting & implementation of the world's first zero-knowledge PII verification platform, PiiAuth.com, inclusive of SDKs, platform, and dashboards

  • Director of Engineering & Architecture at CBRE Asia Pacific
    Dec 2019 - Apr 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos

    For the world’s 2nd largest tenant experience product, CBRE Host, managed and led a high-performance: ☑ All aspects of the engineering org with 25+ members (people, budget, talent, resource, project/program, tech, architecture) ☑ Developed an architecture improvement program and delivered on multiple security, scalability, maintainability, cloud cost saving and architectural and QA bottleneck improvements that had hindered sales and the growth of the business.

  • Queensland Department of Education (Brisbane, Queensland, Australia · On-site)
    • Head of Architecture and Design
      Jul 2016 - Dec 2019 · 3 yrs 6 mos

      Managed and led the agency's center of excellence practice for solution design and delivery, embodied as a team of competent Solutions Architects, Business Analysts, UX Designers, acting as the entry point for the business engaging ICT for solutioning, leading the design and architecting of millions of dollars of projects, like School Budget Solution, School Appropriation and Payment Application, OneSchool modernization program, agency's data-lake project and more. Championed design-driven architecture practice, built the engagement model, engagement artifacts and working protocols and processes.

    • Executive Adviser to ICT Enhancement Program
      Sep 2015 - Jul 2016 · 11 mos

      In response to the OneSchool incident, developed a risk-based SDLC and solution delivery model, published at https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1007/s11219-019-09452-7, empowering the agency to fulfill its obligations to implement a large program of change to improve the security and quality of developed solutions, in collaboration with other agencies and QGCIO and Deloitte and EY recommendations.

    • Head of Solution Architecture
      Sep 2013 - Sep 2015 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      Managed and led a team of Solutions Architects, Business Analysts and Software Engineers to lead the cloud migration and development of over $50m worth of projects including a range of public-facing enterprise solutions like the agency's identity platform, enterprise SDKs (saving the agency 700k lines of code a year), like Grants and Allowances and Payments Solution, Rolling Programs Dashboard and Living Away From Home Allowance Scheme (LAFHAS) Application and more

  • Head of Product Development at DealsInOne.com.au
    Sep 2012 - Sep 2013 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Accountable for architecting and implementing Australia's best AI-powered daily deals crawler, tracker and search engine.