Neil Cross
Lead Backend Engineer at Illuvium.io
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolNeil Cross is a Lead Backend Engineer based in Sydney with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and delivering event-driven, microservice architectures primarily in C# and .NET Core. He has led platform and API builds for enterprises and telcos—bringing expertise in Azure Service Bus, RabbitMQ/MassTransit, Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines across Azure and AWS. Known for pragmatic system design, he pairs architectural vision with implementation: from CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code to distributed tracing, secrets management and role-based access. His career spans startups to regulated finance and telecoms, where he introduced testing, database migrations and scalable queue-based systems that became team standards. Outside feature work he often drives developer experience improvements—cross-platform stacks and automated client libraries—that accelerate teams and reduce operational friction.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B. Computer Science, Games Technology, B. Computer Science, Games Technology at Charles Sturt University
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Github Skills (112)
newman10
azure-functions10
aws-lambda10
postman-collection10
aws10
json-report10
postman10
lambda9
cloud-services9
api-testing9
windows-phone9
serverless9
ipad9
aws-dynamodb9
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
NeilCross/dotfiles-win
Aug 2019 - Feb 2024
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
NeilCross/sql-automation
Feb 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:7 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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