Anthony Cole

Resume

Summary

I'm an experienced, delivery focused full-stack leader and engineer. I've worked in a number of verticals, including Finance, Retail, and Goverment and also dipped my toes into the startup world, participating in Startmate's Founders Fellowship in 2022.

Technically, I have experience across the stack and can build and implement features end to end.

From an interface perspective, I've architected and built systems with React, Next, Tailwind, and Storybook.

Further down the stack, I've architected systems with event-driven, microservice, and headless architectures that use REST, GraphQL, and RPC. I've used Apollo and am familiar with Federation, Subgraphs, and optimisation with DataLoader. I've built with with AWS, GCP, Cloudflare, and Vercel. I've worked with BigCommerce and Hybris ecommerce platforms and Contentful, Strapi, and Payload CMS Systems.

I value effective team building through setting strong technical direction, effective communication, and thoughtful organisation. I've helped improve delivery and improved team health, cycle time, and velocity through ways of working. I also have hands-on experience with governance and CAB processes.

I'm both experienced and excited by the use of AI to enable development and have experience using and optimising Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and OpenAI Codex. I'm particularly interested in stepping into a founding engineer or engineering management role.

Recent Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Fair Supply

11/2025 - 04/2026 • 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