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Hi, I’m Mark Lillywhite. I’m an award winning CTO and software engineer based in Noosa (near Brisbane), Australia. I have a very rare combination of product, leadership and engineering skills:

  • I’m an experienced, hands-on software engineering leader with significant experience using Go, Java and TypeScript to build both frontend and distributed backend systems.

  • I’m an experienced agile project leader who has led both digital product and digital transformation teams across dozens of projects.

  • I’m a subject matter expert specialising in the architecture and engineering of high-volume, accurate, reversible, real-time billing systems - including recurring and usage billing, receivables, payments and collections, and the associated digital policy management, authorisation, authentication, accounting and enforcement functions.

I’ve consulted to more than 50 organisations across the Pacific region, including Vocus, Ultrafast Fibre (NZ), FetchTV, Lagoon (New Caledonia), Telikom PNG and many more.

Availability

I enjoy all aspects of software engineering - from consulting, architecture, design and writing code, to leading, training and mentoring teams.

I’m available for contract/permanent roles in the following areas:

  • Consulting: I’m a consultant who can provide technical and project management advice, leadership, training, coaching and mentoring and for agile teams.
  • Tech Startups: I’m a hands-on CTO/architect/consultant for tech startups.
  • Engineering Leadership: I’m an experienced software engineering team leader.
  • Product Owner/Manager: I’m an agile digital product owner who can help improve team performance and reduce risk.

Awards

  • Outstanding Open Architecture & API Design, TMForum Live!, Nice, France.
  • ACOMMS Services To Industry (Professional Services).

Memberships

Previous professional memberships have included:

  • Communications Alliance, Australia
  • Telemanagement Forum, EU/USA
  • Australian Standards HL7 & EDIFACT committees
  • Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC), USA
  • Pacific Islands Telecommunications Association, Oceania

Contact Me

Get in touch! There’s nothing I enjoy more than helping great teams build great software.