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REA Group Lead Developer, Identity

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January 2023-March 2025

Lead Developer, Identity, REA Group

Identity Platform Migration

Architected and delivered a seamless migration of REA's consumer-facing identity platform to millions of users. Sequenced rollout phases to eliminate risk, coordinated across engineering, product, and security, and maintained zero major outages throughout.

Technical Direction & Team Leadership

  • Defined authentication and authorisation architecture across REA's consumer surfaces, establishing patterns adopted across teams
  • Mentored engineers on the team, growing technical capability and lifting code quality
  • Partnered with security and platform teams to ensure the identity system met compliance and resilience requirements
  • Aligned stakeholders across engineering, product, and security on a complex, high-stakes migration program

Technologies & Domains

OAuth2, OpenID Connect, identity federation, microservices, cloud-native infrastructure, TypeScript/Node.js