Hi, I'm Ari Molzer

Sydney based Software Developer, and Cloud Architect

I've been working in tech, leading teams, and delivering large scale projects in finance, education, and ecommerce for over 10 years. Please take a look at my experience and skills, and reach out if you think we could work well together.

Employment History

The details of my 10+ years experience as a software developer and technical leader

Technical Lead

Novated Lease Australia Pty Ltd

While working at Money.com.au, a sister company to Novated Lease Australia, I was assigned to begin work on the Novated Lease Australia sales CRM project, establishing the technical cornerstone on which the business had built its profound success. After some time, I was hired directly by Novated Lease Australia as the businesses technical lead.

My core responsibilities include...

While working at Money.com.au, a sister company to Novated Lease Australia, I was assigned to begin work on the Novated Lease Australia sales CRM project, establishing the technical cornerstone on which the business had built its profound success. After some time, I was hired directly by Novated Lease Australia as the businesses technical lead.

My core responsibilities include: 

  • Development of software solutions to empower sales staff to perform with higher efficiency, via workflow optimisation, API integrations with financiers, and customer self service platforms. 

  • Development of backend services and microservices to power client facing features including the novated lease calculator, lead generation forms, dynamically created content pages, and self service portals. 

  • Provisioning and maintaining AWS Infrastructure, using HashiCorp Terraform, in a secure, highly available and cost effective manner. Utilizing AWS EC2, ECS, Lambda, S3, AWS API Gateway, RDS, SQS, ElastiCache, and a number of other AWS cloud services. 

  • Provisioning AWS infrastructure via Terraform IaC, configuring virtual private cloud networking, hosting GoLang, PHP and Python applications on AWS ECS, and Lambda using AWS Serverless Application Model. 

  • Managing members of the development team and performing leadership functions, conducting team code reviews, mentoring junior team members, one-on-one meetings, and creating technical documentation for projects.

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JavaScript PHP Laravel Vue.js AWS DevOps CI/CD Docker Team Leadership

Technical Lead

Money Pty Ltd

As Technical Lead at Money.com.au, I was responsible for all of the software development, infrastructure, security and technical planning of all of the systems that the business was developing. My core responsibilities included...

As Technical Lead at Money.com.au, I was responsible for all of the software development, infrastructure, security and technical planning of all of the systems that the business was developing. My core responsibilities included:

  • Development of client facing services to enable Australias to find loans and other financial products that they would be eligible for, and provide exact rates based on lenders rate sheets, Equifax credit score data, Illion bank feeds and other, self reported data points. 

  • Provisioning and maintaining AWS Infrastructure via the serverless.com framework, to create infinitely scalable and cost effective production APIs. 

  • Writing services and microservices to integrate with secure finance APIs using web programming languages including PHP, Node.js, Typescript. 

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PHP Laravel CakePHP JavaScript AWS DevOps CI/CD Docker

Development Team Lead

DPS Publishing Pty Ltd

At DPS, it was my resonsibility as team lead to manage a multi-discipled team composed of senior and junior developers, an AWS architect, and a designer. It was in this role that I was first exposed to deeper concepts relating to AWS, cloud computing, containerisation, and highly available architecture.

PHP Laravel Vue.js Team Management

eCommerce Developer

Aligent Consulting

PHP Magento 1 OroCommerce

Software Developer

The Distillery Co.

Symfony 3 Drupal 8 RabbitMQ AWS EC2

Junior Developer

The Moonshine Lab, a Distillery Co Company

PHP Symfony 3 Drupal 8 RabbitMQ AWS EC2

Apprentice Developer

Xtreme Software Pty Ltd

PHP HTML5 CSS3 JQuery

Certified by leading vendors

My skills have been validated to the best industry standards. Check out my certifications

Terraform Associate (003)

Hashicorp

Terraform Associate (003)

Developer Associate  (DVA-C02)

Amazon Web Services

Developer Associate (DVA-C02)

Solutions Architect (SAA-C03)

Amazon Web Services

Solutions Architect (SAA-C03)

Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02)

Amazon Web Services

Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02)

AI Practitioner (AI1-C01)

Amazon Web Services

AI Practitioner (AI1-C01)

Frequently asked questions

I've tried to answer some of the questions you may already have. If you have any other questions, perhaps you should contact me.

What technologies did you use to create this website?

To build this website I used the Astro.js framework, connected to Storyblok.com as a headless CMS. The styling was done in TailwindCSS and TailwindUI components were used as the basis for the design. The deployments are done via GitHub Actions, deploying to AWS S3 behind a CloudFront distribution.

What technologies are you experienced with?

My primary web development skillset is in PHP + Laravel, HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. However my skills extend well past just development into advanced infrastructure with AWS, Agile team management, technical planning, project management and resource planning.