Anthony Cole

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Summary

I'm an experienced, delivery focused engineer with a breadth of experience in both Lead and Senior capacites. I've successfully delivered projects in large enterprises like Aesop and ANZ, and helped startups at stages ranging from pre-seed to scaleup grow.

I have a strong passion for Frontend Engineering. I've worked primaryly with React and Typescript on everything from Design Systems through to realigning CI/CD pipelines. I also have experience with microservice-based architectures like MACH or Headless systems.

I value effective team building through setting strong technical direction, effective communication, and thoughtful organisation. I'm also both experienced and excited by the use of AI to enable workflows and have experience using Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex, and other tools to enable development and delivery.

Recent Experience

Senior Software Engineer/Architect

Fair Supply

11/2025 - Present • Contract

Architecting new frontend solution for Fair Supply's website replatforming to Next.js and Vercel

Building and maintaining design system in Storybook

Collaborating with design and engineering team to align design and development efforts and ensure consistency across new platform

Replatforming of Fair Supply's platform to Next.js and Vercel to better allow for AI-enabled development

Delivering platform features where required

Increased core web vitals score by 40

Successful replatform of Fair Supply's website to Next.js and Vercel in a monorepo

Creation of centralised source of refrence documentation.

Introduction of Storybook and primitive design system to align design and development teams

Realignment of development and design teams, improving efficiency and consistency across new platform

NextJSStorybookVercelInngestTailwindDesign TokenTurborepoGraphQLFigmaNeo4j

Senior Software Engineer

Aunty Grace

05/2025 - 10/2025 • Contract

Creation and championing of consistent frontend development standards, design system, and observability

Introduction of AI and prompting into product development workflow

Design and Development of features for internal-facing employee portal

Working with cross-functional stakeholders and mentoring engineers to deliver valuable features to staff

Strategy, execution, and delivery of delivery plan and foundational architecture for new client-facing portal

Instituted new design system and component library

Delivered strategic recommendations on CI/CD Devops workflow

NextJSVercelMaterial UIPythonPostgresAuth0SQLAlchemyFlaskCeleryDataDog

Senior Software Engineer - Frontend (ANZx)

ANZ

08/2024 - 03/2025 • Contract

Working within an Agile squad as part of Accounts and Transactions for ANZ's digital transformation arm ANZx, developed responsive, digital web features with React and Next.JS

Collaborated with cross-functional teams (UX/UI designers, backend developers, product owners)

Worked with in-house first principals primitive design system and built bespoke components

Followed Agile best practices: sprint planning, huddles, sprint reviews, and retrospectives

Focused on writing clean, maintainable code and delivering high-quality UI work, including test coverage. Contributed to continuous improvement in team performance and code quality

Delivered key features for ANZ's new digital banking platform

Built custom composable sticky component for atomic design system

ReactNextJSTypeScriptReduxJestTesting LibraryStorybookProtobuffs

Engineering Lead

Vinomofo

01/2024 - 08/2024 • Contract

Working with CTO and development team and building and delivering tail end of Vinomofo.com

Re-architecting and Migration of downstream middleware solution from 3rd party vendor to internally built microservice

Helping with post-delivery phase of headless migration

Savings of ~A$160,000 in service costs

Re-architecting and removal of legacy CDP and abandoned cart systems, creating more visibility

Major dependency upgrade of Gatsby, React, and Node

GraphQLGatsbyReverse ETLBigCommerceTypeScriptNodeAWSContentfulNetlify

Engineering Lead

Aesop

08/2022 - 01/2024

Lead digital transformation for Retention squad - transitioning bespoke My Account application from legacy monolith application to being powered by Next.js

Leadership responsibilities including mentoring junior developers, conducting code reviews, and facilitating knowledge sharing sessions

Participated in broader discussions and planning of vendor choice, microfrontend architecture, and Next.js implementation across all of aesop.com

Provided documentation, deployment plans, as well as architecture and technical guidance

Assisted in planning and architecture of Aesop.com headless migration

Helped orchestrate headless transition of legacy My Account functionality to Next.js

Major projects: wishlist functionality for Aesop.com, GA4 migration and technical roadmap for design implementation

Next.JSGraphQLCSS ModulesNextTypeScriptHybrisNxContentfulAWSAmplifyS3Akamai

Frontend Technical Lead

Service Victoria

10/2021 - 06/2022

Hired as a Senior Frontend Developer on the Secure Work Project for Service Victoria via secondment from DXC Technology; transitioned to permanent after 4 months

Worked within the Alpha Squad on Business IDAM project, helped deliver frontend functionality for Business Account Management

Built features in React for cross-functional delivery teams including UX, Product, Architecture, QA, and Delivery

Successful delivery of Secure Work Project

Participation in frontend guild and contributions to design system

Delivery of frontend for Business IDAM

ReactReduxStyled ComponentsStorybookNodeJSAWS

Past Experience

Senior Full Stack Developer

Ally Assist / Fora

12/2020 - 11/2021

Rebuilt simplified onboarding process to help reduce onboarding time

Centralised and simplified customer support systems, reducing CX overhead

Rebuilt a geographically-based matching system with PostGIS and microservices

Set up development standards, CI/CD pipelines, and testing strategies

Helped transition product from MVP and scale for growth

AngularReactNestJsCustomer.ioFirebasePostgres/PostGISExpressGoogle Cloud PlatformApp EngineCircleCITypeScript

Senior Developer

TypeHuman

09/2020 - 11/2021

Building features in Node.js and React for the Traverse project

The Traverse project was a digital credential marketplace that provides a bridge to civil, social, and economic participation, backed by an alliance between The Australian Red Cross, Oxfam, RedR, and involves the Telstra Foundation

Assisted in MVP build for launch of pilot of decentralised micro-credential plattform to Red Cross

Node.jsExpressReactuPortMongoDBEthereumDigital Credentials

Senior Frontend Engineer

Pathify

02/2018 - 04/2019

Working in a small, cross-discipline team between UX, Product, and business to build and maintain features from a style-guide

Participating in code reviews and collaboration alongside other developers as well as engaging in planning meetings

Leading the transition of the business to be design-focused; manage backlog; assist and lead feature ideation, sprint planning, and retrospectives

Helped platform scale from MVP on the back of expotential customer growth

Angular.jsMultitenancySASSGulpWebpackNPMDockerWebsocketsPython

Full Stack Developer

Lexer

08/2016 - 06/2017

Responsible for building new full-stack features in a data-driven environment

Using data-driven results to determine business cases for ongoing product releases and features

Built content reports feature to reduce CX overhead and automate processes done by customer success team

BootstrapBackbone.jsPubSubD3Grunt.jsRails 3GrapePostgresActive RecordDocker

Senior Frontend Developer

ROLLER

07/2015 - 08/2016

First engineering hire. Transformed existing frontend methodology from Bootstrap-specific functionality to BEM

Pioneered Design System

Angular.jsBowerGulpSASSBEM

Web Developer

Mushroom Group

08/2013 - 09/2014

Built and and maintained websites for various Mushroom Group brands

Web Developer

Bastion Digital

11/2011 - 05/2012

Web development and digital solutions for clients such as Tennis Australia, 2xu, and various other brands

Contact

linkedin.com/in/anthonyccole
Melbourne, Australia

Skills

Leadership & Strategy

StrategyTechnical LeadershipCode ReviewAgileKanbanScrumStakeholder Management

AI/Artificial Intelligence

ChatGPTGitHub CopilotClaude CodeAnthropic APIPrompt Engineering

Architecture

HeadlessMACHWebhooksMicroservicesMonolitic ArchitectureMicrofrontendsN-TierMonorepoNxOAuth

Frontend

ReactTailwindMantineTypeScriptNext.jsServer Side RenderingGatsbyReduxDesign SystemsStorybookCSS GridFlexbox

Backend

Node.jsGraphQLApolloPostgreSQLMongoDBRedis

Testing & QA

JestPlaywrightCypress

Third Party Services

HubSpotAuth0WorkOSCustomer.ioTwiiloContentfulInngest

DevOps & Cloud

AWSGCPAzureDockerVercelNetlifyCI/CDGitHub ActionsDataDogCloudFrontRenovateSonarQube

Education & Certifications

Certified Cloud Practitioner

Amazon Web ServicesIn Progress

Certified Community Director

Institute of Community DirectorsIn Progress

Psychological First Aid (PFA)

St John Ambulance2023

Advanced Communication

Australian Institute of Management2023

Dealing with Difficult Behaviours

Australian Institute of Management2023

Digital Leadership Elevate

Academy Xi2022

Product Manament

General Assembly2015