Luke Phillips
Senior Software Engineer at Xero
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolLuke Phillips is a Senior Software Engineer and engineering leader based in Sydney with six years of experience modernising systems across Financial Services and Healthcare. He has led end-to-end transformations as Head of Engineering—rebuilding loan management architecture, introducing CI/CD, and expanding services with Open Banking—while driving security and cloud-native best practices. At the Australian Bond Exchange he cut client onboarding from two days to ten minutes and delivered both B2B/B2C bond trading and fixed-income back-office systems, demonstrating a strong product-to-infrastructure mindset. Comfortable working with distributed teams and stakeholders, he aligns technical roadmaps to business outcomes and has managed both offshore and in-house engineers. Accredited by Engineers Australia with an Honours BE and a Diploma in Professional Engineering Practice, he pairs formal engineering rigor with hands-on delivery. An ex-Army reservist, he brings discipline and team-first leadership to high-pressure projects.
6 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Green Point Christian CollegeBachelor of Engineering (Software Engineer) (Honours) + Diploma in Professional Engineering Practice Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (Software Engineer) (Honours) + Diploma in Professional Engineering Practice Engineering at University of Technology Sydney
Github Skills (58)
aurora10
database-migrations9
migration9
pad9
flyway9
database-management9
whitespace8
database8
d3js8
signature8
java8
redgate8
database-deployment8
continuous-deployment8
http-api7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
luke9216/SES2AB_Frontend
Mar 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:41 commits, 14 PRs, 25 pushes in 2 months
luke9216/CMC_Markets
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
Contributions:8 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 day
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