Xerxes Battiwalla
Director, Embedded Software Platform Development
Greater Sydney Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolXerxes Battiwalla is a seasoned software engineering leader with 16+ years delivering embedded, mobile and web solutions across healthcare and device industries, now directing Embedded Software Platform Development at Cochlear. He has repeatedly progressed from developer to director, led the launch of Cochlear’s flagship Nucleus Smart App, and delivered a next-generation bionic eye system while inventing two patents for implantable devices. Known for customer-first product leadership, he balances UX, technical architecture and business operations to drive products toward market dominance and measurable savings (AUD $500K–$1M annually). Xerxes also contributes to open-source testing tooling—enhancing string assertion and automation in the popular Shouldly .NET project—showing hands-on engineering alongside strategy. Based in Sydney, he combines pragmatic delivery with a talent for growing high-performing teams and turning clinical-grade research into real-world products. His colleagues describe him as a relationship-driven leader who makes complex medical device software "go burrr" while keeping patients and users front of mind.
16 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at University of Technology Sydney
English, geekspeak
Stackoverflow
309reputation
13kreached
3answers
4questions
Github Skills (15)
assertion10
nunit10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
test-automation10
testing10
regular-expression9
json6
anycpu6
unit-testing6
razor6
asp-net-mvc6
entity-framework6
nancy6
monodevelop6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
shouldly/shouldly
Oct 2010 - Nov 2012
Should testing for .NET—the way assertions should be!
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:30 commits, 4 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Xerxes primarily contributed to enhancing the testing capabilities of the project. They introduced new testing features, specifically for string manipulation assertions, adding functionalities such as ShouldMatch and methods for comparing strings without regard to whitespace. The user also fixed bugs related to existing test implementations and automated the build process. Furthermore, they refactored existing tests for better organization and maintainability.
dotnetassertionstestingunitassertion
shouldly/shouldly.github.com
Oct 2010 - Jul 2012
The way Asserting *Should* be
Contributions:8 commits in 1 year 8 months
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