Senior Software Engineer at SSW

Overview

SSW is a Microsoft-focused consultancy, so the work splits two ways: client engagements across a range of industries and codebases, and SSW's own products. On the client side that has meant everything from architecture review to legacy remediation to AI-driven compliance systems. Internally it has meant Tech Lead on SugarLearning and building YakShaver.ai, plus Scrum Master and training responsibilities across several other teams.

Highlights

• Tech Lead on SugarLearning, taking it from legacy .NET 4.5 to .NET 10, and growing the team from 2 to 8+ engineers
• Built YakShaver.ai, a commercial AI product that transcribes video, identifies user intent such as raising a work item or drafting an email, then carries that task out
• Scrum Master across three teams: SSW TV, FirebootCamp and YakShaver, alongside my own delivery work
• Ran the FirebootCamp training program, mentoring interns through a full application lifecycle in Angular and .NET, and in the soft skills the job actually needs
• Introduced SSW.DesignSystem on Storybook and Chromatic, giving teams a consistent UI framework to build against
• Raised coding standards through code review across teams, and coached engineers on communicating with stakeholders and product owners

Client Work

• BizCover: system architecture work, including a migration from microservices to a modular monolith
• Whitehaven Coal: led an AI-driven compliance and safety project, building audio analysis over radio communications for PosCom compliance
• Lander & Rogers: repository governance, security and configuration, developer experience, deployment and infrastructure, and ongoing production support
• Arriba: extended a legacy VB.NET system, building additional features into it
• LEX Australia: a custom Outlook plugin for the law firm
• Harrier: .NET migration and remediation of a legacy system
• Next Level Racing: code quality assessment and audit

Internal Products

• SugarLearning: SSW's learning platform, where I led the .NET 10 migration and the team behind it
• YakShaver.ai: commercial AI for video transcription, intent analysis and automated task execution

Publications

SSW Rules are the company’s public engineering standards. Ones I wrote:

• Do you know the 4 R’s of incident communication?
• Do you properly resolve code review comments?
• Do you use Logging Fakes?
• Do you use LoggerMessage in .NET?
• Do you handle Multi-OS dev teams in source control?
• Do you know the best framework to build an admin interface for Web Apps?

Technology

Backend: .NET 10, legacy .NET 4.5, VB.NET, C#

Frontend: Angular, React, Next.js, Storybook, Chromatic

Cloud and DevOps: Azure, Azure DevOps, GitHub, GitHub Actions

AI: video transcription, intent analysis, audio analysis for compliance

Other: Microsoft Office add-ins, Scrum and Agile delivery