Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)

My day-to-day work involves working with our news partners to co-develop and rollout Facebook's news products (Instant Articles, Account Linking, Facebook News), as well as work on new tools and products.

I also work on broader initiatives related to news across the APAC region (news feed, product, programmatic advertising, ecosystem development).

Technical Account Manager, News - APAC

I worked with our most important news partners across all levels - from executives, managers and operational staff at media organisations across ANZ. My day to day work involved building and executing  on our news strategy as well as building relationships within the news industry.

Strategic Partner Manager, News Partnerships - ANZ

NewsMaven was a ML (machine learning) driven video platform that helped publishers automate the process of placing the most relevant video in content.

Globally, publishers were seeing increased demand for video and affiliate content from their audiences. At the same time, brands were looking to move advertising budget from TV to online.

We solved problems faced by both publishers and brands - making content inventory available where it didn't exist and increasing advertising opportunities for agencies & brands.

I built the business from the ground up, and worked across all aspects of business development as well as being knee-deep across all technical aspects (development primarily in Node.js and C++).

My day to day activities involved pitching for new business, building key strategic partnerships and formulating the long-term vision around our video offering.

I directly interacted with, and have built close working relationships with C-level executives at listed companies.

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Co-Founder

Software development for the Institute for Interactive Media and Learning (IML) at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Our focus was on building software which powered rich media experiences, including text analysis for the purpose of generating games and interactive courses. We also collaborated on a lot of early research on haptics & sensory control systems for people with disabilities.

Some of our projects included building external systems for customers like News Corp e.g. iNK (Interactive News for Kids - no longer live) and other university clients.

Software Engineer - Interactive Media and Dynamic Learning Systems

Tyro is a Tier 1 Australian Financial Institution, and I worked as part of the original team of 4 ops specialists. 

I helped build and maintain Tyro's first production systems; and reported to the CIO (and Co-Founder) Peter Haig.

My duties included:

∙ Codifying production systems and their configuration in Python
∙ System Operations (Red Hat Linux EL3 - 6, MySQL)
∙ Codifying production application deployments (Java)
∙ Penetration Testing - both external & internal systems
∙ Retrospectives / post-mortems after significant system failures
∙ Assisting external auditors (specifically, our Financial/IT auditors - Ernst & Young)
∙ Manage the deployment of our core applications across production systems
∙ Manage systems with soft real-time performance requirements (HSMs, Databases)
∙ Regulatory compliance work for APRA (IT general controls and risk management)
∙ Other on-going projects typical of any startup experiencing hyper-growth

During my time at Tyro, I was privileged to be part of 

Site Reliability Engineer

System Admin for the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Design, Architecture & Building while trying to start my Masters (titled: "Autonomous post intrusion, network isolation systems" under the late Dr Elaine Lawrence & Dr Tony Jan). 

I dropped out of my masters to join a startup (see academic proposal attached below).

System Administrator (Part-time)

At Sense of Security, I was an information security consultant. My role included advising clients on network architecture, conducting security audits (IRAP) and internal/external penetration testing.

Information Security Consultant

Attack & Penetration (Infrastructure, Web applications), Network architecture reviews, Firewall + IDS reviews, IRAP/ASCI33/ISM compliance, SAS70 assessments and threat & vulnerability assessments.

I worked across the finance, health and defence sectors on clients such as Woolworths, ANZ, Thales/ADI, Metcash, Commonwealth Bank, CSC Corporation, Mizuho Bank and more...

∙ Penetration testing and forensic investigations
∙ Working with three-letter clients in the Defence space

Information Security Consultant (Part-time)

Founder

I work on the Global Partnerships and Content (GP&C) Business Engineering team and help our media and creator partners leverage our platforms at scale.

Business Engineering at Facebook is a global team of strategic software engineers at the intersection of business, technology, and innovation in today's innovative industries. 

We are unique from other teams of engineers because we interface directly with key client partners from some of the largest companies across industry, to deliver solutions with code across the Facebook family of apps.

Software Engineer

ex-Meta/facebook, NewsMaven, Tyro Payments, Ernst & Young.
Now building InboxAPI 📥

github

Software Engineer. ex-Meta - worked on Instagram and Threads. Now building InboxAPI 📥

Shaon Diwakar

ex-Meta/facebook, NewsMaven, Tyro Payments, Ernst & Young. Now building InboxAPI 📥