📍 Sydney, NSW
📧 philip.todd@gmail.com
📞 0448 856 706
A commercially minded Technology Leader and Senior Developer with 15+ years of experience delivering cloud-first, product-driven solutions that improve operational performance, reduce risk, and create new revenue streams.
Recognised for leading architecture and full-stack development across Azure-hosted SaaS platforms, enterprise APIs, and IoT-enabled products, working with high-profile clients.
Skilled in:
- Taking products from concept to launch
- Modernising legacy systems
- Aligning engineering strategy with business goals
A trusted advisor to C-level stakeholders, bringing a rare mix of hands-on development expertise, platform design acumen, and product vision to market-facing technology teams.
Proven ability to:
- Build and lead onshore/offshore engineering teams
- Optimise delivery through DevOps and Agile practices
- Drive innovation in competitive markets
- Technical Architecture
- Azure Cloud Platform
- Platform Integrations
- Cloud Integrations
- Real-Time Data Analytics
- Database Design & Development
- MS Stack Development
- Software Development (DevOps)
- CI/CD Pipelines
- Delivery & Implementation Planning
- Continuous Improvement
- IT Delivery Management
- Digital Transformation
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Team Management
Architected and delivered DIVVY’s Drive-Up Car Park System, combining:
- Azure IoT Hub
- Serverless Functions
- Samsung-based edge devices
- RESTful APIs
- Adyen payment terminals
- Xero financial integration
The platform launch increased revenue by approximately 40%.
Led end-to-end delivery of Justbooked.com.au, a cloud-native parking aggregator built from scratch.
Responsibilities included:
- Platform architecture
- API design
- Azure deployment
- Integration with Xero and FatZebra payment gateways
Delivered the Woolworths Q-Tracker platform enabling real-time queue visibility during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Developed Azure-hosted public APIs
- Integrated into Woolworths.com.au
- Significantly increased DIVVY’s brand visibility and market reach
Implemented enterprise-grade analytics including:
- Reporting databases
- Data synchronisation pipelines
- Angular dashboards using Telerik components
Enabled executives and clients to access real-time operational and financial insights.
Engineering Manager
Jun 2025 – Dec 2025
Australia's largest car park operator across Australia and New Zealand, managing 600+ facilities.
Provided technical leadership for a newly established DevOps team and modernised legacy development practices.
Key contributions:
- Architected CI/CD pipelines for a microservices ecosystem
- Implemented Azure-based services including:
- Azure App Services
- Azure SQL
- Service Bus
- Serverless Functions
- Introduced message-driven architecture to replace manual workflows
- Improved system reliability and deployment velocity
Head of Technology
Jan 2019 – Dec 2024
Smart mobility and parking solutions provider operating across four Australian capital cities.
Recruited to rebuild the technical function after the departure of an external vendor.
Responsibilities included architecture, development, and operations of Azure-hosted platforms.
- Strategic technology advisor to CEO, CIO and senior leadership
- Designed a cloud-native architecture using:
- Azure App Services
- Azure SQL
- Cosmos DB
- Azure API Management
- Serverless Functions
- Delivered SaaS platforms for:
- Car park access control
- Asset booking systems
- Contact tracing
- Queue management
- Built enterprise BI and reporting platform
- Designed API-first integrations with:
- Adyen
- Xero
- FatZebra
- Enterprise clients
- Implemented CI/CD DevOps pipelines
- Built and managed a 10+ person engineering team across onshore and offshore locations
Senior Full Stack Developer (Contract)
Oct 2018 – Dec 2018
Engaged following a major security breach to improve the security posture of the Secure Sentinel identity protection platform.
Key work:
- Strengthened .NET web applications
- Worked with:
- C#
- VB.NET
- ASP.NET
- Implemented security improvements aligned with OWASP Top 10
Senior Software Developer
Dec 2014 – Jun 2018
Software company providing business and project management platforms for architecture and engineering firms.
Led the transformation of a legacy desktop system into a modern Azure-hosted SaaS platform.
- Partnered with the CEO to translate product vision into technology roadmaps
- Migrated desktop Practice Management System → cloud SaaS platform
- Designed scalable architecture across:
- Azure SQL
- Angular
- C# / .NET
- HTML/CSS
- JavaScript
- Mentored junior developers and promoted engineering best practices
Technical Analyst & Designer
2012 – 2014
Rescued a failing Point-of-Sale system project by re-architecting and refactoring an offshore-developed codebase.
Delivered a stable solution that prevented project failure and mitigated potential revenue loss.
Bachelor of Science (Computing Science), Honours
University of Technology Sydney
1999
- Agile Project Management — Australian Institute of Management
- IBM Certified for eBusiness (Solution Designer)
Available upon request.