About

Andrew Cole is a highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer at National Australia Bank, with over 20 years of experience in finance IT. He specializes in server-side Java and rich desktop/GUI development using both Java and C# .NET for financial systems and applications. Andrew is a hands-on technical team lead/project manager, equally comfortable getting into the details of the code as well as engaging with business and technology stakeholders. He has extensive experience leading technical project teams, including globally distributed teams. Andrew's leadership style is approachable and flexible, with a focus on delivery and meeting the business needs, while encouraging best practices and a focus on testing and quality. He enjoys the opportunity to combine his hands-on technical skills with team/project management responsibilities. Andrew has experience in H/W Management, Business Continuity Planning, and Inter-system Communications. He has worked predominantly in Fixed Income Securities and OTC Derivatives, with additional experience in Commodities, FX, Mortgages, Senior Bank Debt, and Securities Lending. Andrew's key technologies include Java, Java FX (rich desktop GUI), Kafka, AWS, and Kubernetes. He is currently team lead for a small development team of 3-6 developers, focused on building and migrating Java microservices to the cloud (AWS/Kubernetes) while continuing to deliver new business-driven functionality to institutional sales users. He is also responsible for owning the Sales desktop app (built with JavaFX), with a particular focus on the Post Trade flow. Andrew has experience working with Sybase, UDB DB2, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Kafka, AMQP/RabbitMQ, EJB, JMS, Ehcache, Hazelcast, Vertx, RMI, Tibco EMS, Tibco Rendezvous, CORBA, JDBC, Hibernate, JSON, XML, XSD, SAX, DOM, Castor, JAXB, and XSL. Andrew is a self-motivated, enthusiastic, and detail-oriented individual who takes pride in designing, implementing, deploying, and supporting robust software solutions that meet the business needs. He has a strong track record of success in his career, having previously worked for Goldman Sachs in London and Sydney, where he managed and led the FICC Technology Sydney team. Andrew holds a Maths, Physics & Chemistry A-Levels from Colne Community School & College (UK).