John Otaegui
Senior Software Engineer at BIG W
New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Otaegui is a Senior Software Engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience building large-scale payment, loyalty and government services, combining deep Java/Kotlin backend expertise with AWS, security and testing-led practices. He has progressed through roles from developer to team lead and engineering manager, favoring hands-on software work and bringing strong TDD, Agile/XP and DevOps discipline to complex distributed systems. John played a formative role at Tyro Payments, helping the company scale from under 30 to 150+ people while delivering mission-critical EFTPOS and clearing systems integrated with banks and the RBA. His recent work spans fintech, public sector and retail platforms—designing voucher and business services for Service NSW and backend systems at Sky, Waddle (acquired by Xero) and BIG W. Colleagues describe him as able to flip between detail-oriented implementation and strategic architecture, with a particular knack for securing payment flows and automating reliable deployments. He combines a Master’s in Advanced Computing with practical cross-disciplinary communication that helps bridge engineering, operations and business stakeholders.
8 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computing Science, Second Class Honours, Bachelor of Science, Computing Science, Second Class Honours at University of Technology, Sydney
English, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
enterprise-integration10
java10
duplicate2
classpath2
maven1
maven-plugin1
rule1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
ikasanEIP/ikasan
Feb 2022 - Aug 2022
Open Source Enterprise Integration Platform
Contributions:220 commits, 28 PRs, 33 pushes in 6 months
enterprise-integrationentepriseesbintegration-platformjavaenterprise
johnot/maven-enforcer-duplicate-class-check
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
maven-pluginenforcerenforcer-rulemavenduplicate
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