I'm Shaugh McIntosh. I love people. Building teams and mentoring the next generation of technoloists is a privelige that I embrace. I believe the best solutions come from curiosity, creativity, togetherness and a willingness to explore uncharted territory.

Achievements

A strategic technology leader specialising in APIs as products, cloud migration, AI-driven modernisation and digital transformation in financial services. Skilled at aligning technology initiatives with business objectives to deliver impactful solutions and drive growth.

Building Strategy

Crossing organisational boundaries, moving from project-driven solutions to As-a-Product thinking. Includes accelerating the move to a modular, business-led technology landscape that is easier to change, while fostering collaboration to unlock customer value in new and creative ways - realising more customer value from our investment slate.

  • Implemented and enabled the API Strategy, unlocking customer value, enhancing agility, and optimising investment returns
  • Instrumental in the Group strategy refresh, advising leadership on a business-led technology roadmap and facilitating executive alignment on a move to a product and platform structure and mindset.
  • Introduced the internationally recognised APIOps Cycles method and embedded API best practices across architecture, testing, and environment teams, driving significant process improvements.

Leading the way with GenAI

Pioneered a Global-First GenAI use case with MongoDB modernising legacy systems to API Products, and catalysing four further major implementations.

  • 90% developer time/cost reduction
  • Modernised a payments platform from a legacy tech stack to a modern, cloud-hosted API solution
  • Simplified 9 relational databases to 3 MongoDB collections
  • Modernised 76 legacy integrations in to 8 API Products

Head of Internet Banking

Responsible for all internet banking channels across all brands for the group, successfully implementing two internet banking consolidations and the acquisition of Ferocia, guiding the organisation through significant change and transformation.

  • Defining strategy and vision for all group internet banking channels
  • Achieved significant platform efficiencies and resilience through the migration of strategic services to AWS/GCP, reducing costs and incidents while increasing uptime
  • Developed and implemented a two-year feature roadmap, aligning product and technical objectives with key stakeholders
  • Fostered strong strategic relationships with business and executive leaders, and provided essential technical oversight for solution design and system impact

Launched the UP digital bank

Part of the internal team that created Up Bank, authoring and designing integrations to core banking systems in partnership with Ferocia.

  • Built cloud hosted integrations to allow rapid innovation at the channel layer
  • Led the internet banking team who built the componentised digital products which underpin Up customer experiences
  • Engineered resilient, scalable systems to support growth from 1 to 1M customers
  • Achieved $2B in deposits and 29% annual growth

Skills

Cloud & Infrastructure

  • AWS (S3, Lambda, CloudFront, Route 53)
  • Docker & Container Orchestration
  • CI/CD Pipelines
  • Infrastructure as Code

Frontend Development

  • React, Vue.js, Angular
  • JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript
  • HTML5, CSS3, Sass
  • Responsive Design

Backend Development

  • Node.js, Python, Java
  • REST APIs, GraphQL
  • Database Design (SQL, NoSQL)
  • Microservices Architecture

Beyond Code

4WD Touring & Camping

Exploring Australia's outback, coastlines and remote tracks. From camping in the high country of Victoria to sitting around a driftwood fire with the Yolngu people of East Anrhem land or the Bardi Jiwa elders in the Kimberly, this country has so much to offer those willing to seek it out.

Vintage Motorcycles

A founding member of Mr Whistler Custom Cycles and keen resto-modder of vintage Japanese motorbikes (mostly from the 70s).

Flying

As a pilot and avid aviator, I take to the skies to live those brief moments among the birds and clouds.

Community

A long-time member of The Old Church on the Hill Community Hub in Bendigo, I run The Pickled Vicar bar at the back of the church on music nights.