Michael Hewett

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1. Zealth — Digizoo product

   Feb 2026 – Present

   Solution Architect & Lead Engineer

   Architected and led the build of a white-label digital lending-origination SaaS for Australian lenders, taking it from greenfield to a live containerised deployment in roughly four months.

   • Delivered a white-label lending-origination SaaS from greenfield to live deployment in ~4 months as lead engineer and primary contributor.
   • Designed a schema-driven form engine rendering ~30 field types from a single typed contract — reused across the app, a drag-and-drop builder and an AI generator.
   • Built an AI Design-to-Code tool on the Anthropic Claude SDK converting Figma designs into validated form schemas.
   • React 19
   • React Router v7
   • TypeScript
   • Tailwind CSS
   • Claude SDK
   • Zod
   • Playwright
   • ArgoCD
   • k3s
   • Terraform
   • Buildkite

2. Ark — Digizoo platform

   Jul 2023 – Present

   Backend & Platform Engineer / Frontend Lead

   Digizoo's multi-tenant, white-label banking and lending middleware — an API orchestration platform that lets banks own their customer experience while keeping vendor flexibility. Initially frontend lead for the React Native experience layer, then focused on backend and API delivery across three major releases.

   • Anchored the v2.0.0 release by leading the backend migration from a legacy customer entity to a unified parties model, behind a managed breaking change with zero production incidents.
   • Unified two third-party identity-verification vendors behind a single vendor-agnostic KYX API contract.
   • Retired legacy authentication and consolidated on OAuth2 / Microsoft Entra ID with a five-tier endpoint authorisation model.
   • Standardised the error contract across ~170 endpoints and 7 services onto a domain-classification taxonomy.
   • TypeScript
   • NestJS
   • Prisma
   • SQL Server
   • Temporal.io
   • OpenAPI
   • Zod
   • OAuth2 / Entra ID
   • Azure
   • AKS
   • Terraform
   • Buildkite

3. Ampol

   Feb 2024 – Aug 2024

   Senior Android Developer

   Led the ground-up Kotlin re-write of the flagship consumer app for one of Australia's largest fuel and convenience retailers.

   • Led the ground-up Kotlin re-write using a strangler-pattern approach so the app modernised incrementally without disrupting the existing customer base.
   • Kept the app shipping to production on an uninterrupted release cadence throughout the full rebuild.
   • Kotlin
   • Android
   • Jetpack Compose

4. Afterpay

   Feb 2022 – Jul 2023

   React Native Developer

   Delivered a US consumer-lending experience end to end in the Afterpay app for a global buy-now-pay-later provider.

   • Delivered a US consumer-lending experience end to end, working across Afterpay's React and React Native stack to let customers apply for short-term loans.
   • Shipped consumer-lending features across web and mobile against Afterpay's core framework, payment systems and shared React/React Native clients.
   • React Native
   • React
   • TypeScript

5. Greater Bank

   Feb 2019 – Feb 2022

   Team Lead & Mobile Architect

   Led development and architecture of Greater Bank's first native iOS and Android apps as part of a digital transformation programme.

   • Established the codebases, coding standards and engineering practices from scratch for the bank's first native apps.
   • Grew the bank's native mobile capability from zero to a 30+ engineer iOS/Android team, defining hiring, standards and mentoring.
   • Owned the mobile technical roadmap end to end, from experience definition through delivery to retail customers.
   • Swift
   • UIKit
   • Kotlin
   • Android
   • iOS
   • Mentoring

6. Pacific National & Westpac

   Mar 2018 – Feb 2019

   Mobile & Technical Consultant

   Field-mobility apps for a national rail freight operator, and an institutional banking platform upgrade.

   • Built iOS and Android field-worker apps for Pacific National's Fast Apps programme, digitising rail-yard wagon inventory and consist management.
   • Upgraded Westpac's institutional banking (WIB) platform from Backbase 5.5 to 5.7 with no disruption to live banking services.
   • iOS
   • Android
   • Backbase

7. Kloud Solutions

   Aug 2016 – Mar 2018

   Development Consultant

   Professional and managed-services specialist in cloud computing.

   • Rebuilt the front end of iPower — PwC Australia's practice-management system — on Angular with a library of reusable framework components.
   • Delivered the Normandy project for the Department of Education & Training using .NET Service Fabric and Angular 2 across on-premise and cloud.
   • Angular
   • .NET
   • Service Fabric
   • xUnit

8. Fujitsu Australia

   Jan 2010 – Aug 2016

   Technical Consultant

   Web systems, mobile apps, cloud services and rich-client applications for Fujitsu clients.

   • Delivered the Northern Territory Government Grants Management System as a ground-up build in .NET MVC, Entity Framework and SQL over a two-and-a-half-year programme.
   • Led technical quality and DevOps for the ABS Perpetual delivery, establishing code-quality standards and build-health/test-coverage reporting.
   • Contributed to the National Rail Safety Regulator (RegIS) system and built a WPF touch-screen application for grain load/discharge tracking.
   • .NET MVC
   • Entity Framework
   • SQL
   • WPF
   • DevOps

9. CBH Group · Thales Australia

   2006 – 2012

   Applications Developer · Software Engineer

   Early career across a major grain-handling cooperative and a defence software house.

   • CBH Group (2011–2012) — applications for a major Western Australian grain-handling cooperative.
   • Thales Australia (2006–2009) — enhancements and defect fixes to mission-critical defence systems in teams of 6–25, predominantly in Java.
   • Java
   • C#
   • .NET