David Robertson

Director Enterprise Architecture - Software Engineering Applications @Exeter Finance

Provided leadership and technical guidance across many areas of IT while collaborating with IT leadership. Mine is a hybrid contributor & leadership role with a focus on automation, risk management, security and efficient delivery- Created generative AI strategy and policy across the organization- Prototyped agentic generative AI solution using RAG and API calls- Implemented auto-scaling of lower environment Azure resources for performance testing; results in a $72K savings per year, rather than static SKUs 24/7- Architected and implemented High Availability for resources, leveraging Azure Availability Zones, giving us up time for PROD apps- Code deployments 100% automated across multiple environments; build & package once, deploy many- Designed and implemented automated API tests that run after every deployment in the lower environments; write-once, execute across many environments; only data configuration that is different. Delivery Teams wrote tests across multiple products- Automated weekly security static and software composition analysis of all code using Veracode; teams notified when there is a flaw. 75% of flaws are identified and resolved in a week or less- From 0% to 56% unit test coverage across 300K lines of code over 5 years using SonarQube quality gates - Automated Azure DevOps governance and compliance using az CLI for things like: branch policy enforcement; quality policy gates; removal of terminated users- Led and architected migration from.Net Framework 4.7.x and legacy auth services to.Net 8 using cloud-hosted Identity Server; refactored microservices to a Doman-Driven Design approach- Prototyped an existing customer-facing web app transformed for mobile platforms using Ionic 6 and Capacitor. Leveraged AuthConnect for OIDC native security on web or the device; used AppFlow to build and package for iOS and Android. 95% of the existing front-end code was reused; all of the backend APIs were used unchanged.