Accounts API
Localz (Descartes)
A multi-tenant accounts and authentication service for the platform, with OAuth through Descartes as the identity provider.
- Go
- MongoDB
- Kafka
- OAuth 2.0
Tom Nagle
Senior Software Engineer · Sunshine Coast, QLD
Senior software engineer with a passion for building software that delights users. I enjoy getting into the technical details and working with product teams to solve real customer problems.
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github.com/tomanagle the last year
Experience
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UPowr
Remote
Senior Software Engineer
Feb 2024 - Present
- Lead the technical design and development of major features across the Node.js/TypeScript backend, Go services, and Flutter app.
- Built a rules engine that lets non-developers automate the bill of materials for solar designs.
- Co-led a platform that merged products from multiple providers into a single catalog, replacing a manual process and enabling key third-party integrations.
- Lead architecture and technical design discussions, working closely with product and design teams.
- Built and maintain end-to-end tests with Playwright to keep the product working as expected.
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Localz (Descartes)
Melbourne & remote
Senior Software Engineer
Sep 2019 - Feb 2024
- Led the design and build of a configurable, multilingual feedback platform used by major retail brands.
- Re-platformed the analytics pipeline onto Snowflake and dbt, cutting dashboard query times from minutes to seconds.
- Built a multi-tenant accounts and authentication service in Go with OAuth, across multiple regions with data-sovereignty requirements.
- Built a multi-tenant URL shortener that became the entry point for the Click and Collect services of two of Australia's largest retailers.
- Led a large customer-facing app in Next.js, GraphQL, and TypeScript, and designed REST and GraphQL APIs across several Go services.
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Procurement Leaders
London, United Kingdom
Development Lead
Jan 2019 - Jun 2019
- Led and coached developers, owning technical solution design and code reviews.
- Built an interactive event hub with Next.js, GraphQL, and MongoDB for Europe's largest procurement events, with live session feedback, networking, and content synced from Salesforce.
- Developed GraphQL and REST APIs with Node.js, TypeScript, Apollo, Express, and MongoDB.
- Built React applications with Next.js, Redux, and Apollo GraphQL.
- Established CircleCI for CI/CD and configured Ubuntu/Nginx web servers.
Senior Full Stack Developer
Jan 2018 - Jan 2019
Full Stack Developer
Jan 2017 - Jan 2018
Web Developer
Feb 2016 - Jan 2017
- Projects:
- Event hub
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HoundHouse
Queensland, Australia
Ecommerce Manager
May 2015 - Nov 2015
- Designed, developed, and deployed e-commerce websites selling premium pet products worldwide.
- Configured LAMP-stack servers, significantly reducing hosting costs while improving site performance.
- Projects:
- Rate my rat
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AD Marketing
Queensland, Australia
Web Developer
Apr 2015 - Nov 2015
- Worked in a team of marketers and developers building websites and online marketing strategies for clients.
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M&D Employment
Queensland, Australia
Web Developer & SEO
Jun 2013 - Nov 2015
- Designed and developed e-commerce websites with Drupal Commerce and WooCommerce in a small team.
- Configured AWS instances and deployed sites on LAMP-stack servers.
- Projects:
- E-Commerce rebuild
Selected projects
All projects → 2024
A rules engine that lets non-developers automate the bill of materials for solar system designs.
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- PostgreSQL
Event Analytics Pipeline
Localz (Descartes)
A pipeline that lands Kafka events in S3, transforms them, and serves them for analytics, later re-platformed onto dbt and Snowflake.
- Kafka
- Kinesis Firehose
- S3
- AWS Glue
- Athena
- dbt
- Snowflake