REA Group Lead Developer, Identity
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