Ben Lvovsky / Financial markets technology

Curriculum vitae

Benjamin (Ben) Lvovsky

Senior Solution Architect — Cloud, Integration & Master Data

I create the solution, not just the diagram. Thirty years in enterprise software, the last decade in cloud. Strongest where a problem crosses several systems and several teams, and where someone has to decide what actually gets built.

  • Melbourne, Australia
  • Australian citizen
  • Baseline security clearance
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Credentials

  • Oracle Certified Master, Java EE Enterprise Architect
  • MBA
  • MSc Information Systems Management
  • Provisional patent, internet broadcasting
  • PhD candidate, RMIT University

Current work

Senior Solution Architect Slater and Gordon

Aug 2025 – present

Architect for the Legal Practice Systems transformation, across Azure, AWS and on-premises systems — ShareDo, MatterSphere, Aderant and Salesforce. The architecture is approved, the first horizon is in production and the next horizons are approved for roll-out; I have now moved on to the firm’s triage and booking project.

  • Proposed and designed the firm’s master data platform — my own concept, approved as the firm’s architecture direction for client and contact data, with the first horizon in production and the full roll-out of about a million records approved for the next horizons. Built on Azure rather than bought as a packaged product.
  • Author and owner of the firm’s Azure cloud and integration strategy, written for approval by the CTO, Head of IT and Information Security Officer — identity and zero-trust networking, API management as the integration hub, Service Bus messaging, recovery objectives, data residency, FinOps and a roadmap that includes decommissioning AWS.
  • Designed the governance model that makes the platform the sole system of record: other systems submit create and update requests, the platform decides through matching and survivorship rules and distributes the canonical record, and no consumer writes to it directly.
  • Wrote the technical design for the full roll-out — one owned gateway to the finance system, a bulk-load pipeline sized for a million records, a generic asynchronous interface in place of bespoke adaptors, and observability defined as code — and designed hub-and-spoke synchronisation across five systems on Azure Service Bus.
  • Designed and proved the initial load myself: a validated full run in UAT consolidated 1,039,896 source records into 969,795 master documents in 17 minutes with zero load errors, after I made the load stage 6.4 times faster, on infrastructure that shuts down when idle.
  • Diagnosed why 18% of contacts chained into one deduplication cluster — shared professional contact details linking unrelated people — and fixed it with name-scoped blocking, making deduplication 2.6 times faster.
  • Proposed a firm-owned redesign of the national settlements workflow after code analysis showed every billing step after approval was being re-keyed into the finance system by hand.
  • Ran the architecture review before the first production release — six risks and a managed-identity audit across 10 services — and wrote the system-to-system authentication guide and cloud engineering standards the delivery teams build to.

Experience

Head of Cloud iSelect, Corporate Travel Management group

Mar 2025 – Aug 2025

Led the cloud and DevSecOps function — seven people across AWS and Azure.

  • Brought the function back in-house from an outsourced model, running the knowledge transfer and establishing the documentation practice that had not previously existed.
  • Restructured the AWS multi-account organisation, resolving long-standing inefficiencies in resource use and account design.
  • Migrated CI/CD from Jenkins to GitHub Enterprise — platform selection, OIDC-based AWS connectivity, and IAM roles and trust relationships for cross-account deployment with no long-lived credentials.
  • Repositioned the team as a technical enablement hub for product teams: standards, consultation and internal education rather than a ticket queue.

Technical Lead iSelect

Jan 2024 – Mar 2025

Owned the internal shared services, including the Lead Generator system integrating MySQL, PostgreSQL and MS SQL. Built a real-time pipeline on Amazon Kinesis with DynamoDB storage feeding Salesforce and the data lake.

Senior Software Engineer Leidos Australia

Jun 2022 – Jan 2024

Bureau of Meteorology programs. Java Spring Boot microservices on OpenShift with PostgreSQL, Solr and Kafka; integration via Apache NiFi and Camel; deployment automation and test suites in Python, Ansible provisioning, Kibana, GitLab CI.

IT Manager & Solution Architect Ubertas Financial Group / TwigTech

Nov 2018 – Jun 2022

IT for the Ubertas group, and the architect and delivery lead who built TwigTech — a property management platform on AWS covering trust accounting and short-stay distribution across Airbnb, Expedia and other OTAs.

  • Took the product from nothing to a live commercial platform — architecture, data design and hands-on delivery — as fault-tolerant serverless microservices on AWS.
  • Built the engineering team from zero: hired locally, established and managed an offshore arm, and ran code review and mentoring while staying hands-on myself.
  • Created card-to-crypto and bank-to-crypto payment services for the group.
  • Reported to the Managing Director and C-level directly on both technical and commercial decisions.

Solutions Architect / Senior Developer (contract) Australia Post

Nov 2017 – Nov 2018

Modernisation of enterprise systems across several microservices projects. LDAP, Oracle, Java 8, Spring Boot, Docker, WebLogic.

Skills

Azure
Functions · Service Bus · Cosmos DB · AI Search · Storage · Front Door · VNet integration · Entra ID · managed identities · Privileged Identity Management · Azure DevOps · Terraform · migration from on-premises and AWS
AWS
Multi-account Organizations design · Lambda · ECS · EKS · EC2 · S3 · SQS/SNS · RDS · DynamoDB, including hybrid NoSQL and relational patterns · Kinesis · IAM and OIDC federation · CloudFormation · CodePipeline · VPC and availability-zone topology · cost control
Integration and master data
Event-driven architecture · publish/subscribe · API design · OAuth 2.0 and machine-to-machine authentication · integration gateways and proxy patterns · MDM platforms designed from first principles rather than configured from a packaged product · golden-record ownership and governance · deduplication, survivorship and blocking analysis · large-scale initial loads · ShareDo, MatterSphere, Aderant, Salesforce, SAP · Kafka, NiFi, Camel, JMS
Engineering
TypeScript · Node.js · Java and Java EE · Python · C++ · C# · Spring Boot · Terraform · Docker · Kubernetes and OpenShift · GitHub Actions and Enterprise · Azure DevOps · GitLab CI · CI/CD · Agile, Scrum, TDD
Data
Cosmos DB hierarchical partitioning and query-pattern design · DynamoDB · Oracle with PL/SQL and query optimisation · SQL Server · PostgreSQL · MySQL · Solr · Power BI
Leadership
Target-state and transitional architecture · design assurance · legacy modernisation · engineering governance and standards · building and mentoring teams from zero · reporting to managing director and C-level on technical and commercial matters

Earlier career, 1996 – 2017

Ippon Australia · Odecee (Cognizant) · IBM Global Process Services · NEC Australia · NetBusiness · ADP Australia · VEDA Advantage · Space-Time Research · Digital MotorWorks International · Ubertas Kongari Asset Management · National Australia Bank · Avanteos, Commonwealth Bank group · Securency and Note Printing Australia, Reserve Bank of Australia · OnQ/BillExpress · AON Warranty Group · Paritech Financial Data Solutions · Online Trading Systems · Looksmart International · Dun & Bradstreet · The Beam Group · Cybec / Vet Antivirus, later Computer Associates

Detail on request.

Education

PhD, Software Engineering — RMIT University Nov 2025 – present
Multi-agent LLM systems for privacy and security in software delivery: whether specialised language-model agents in adversarial configuration can detect sensitive data leaking through tickets, logs and repositories.
MBA and Master of Information Systems Management — Swinburne University of Technology 2002 – 2008
Master of Computer Science and Engineering — Moscow Mining University 1986 – 1991

Oracle Certified Master, Java EE Enterprise Architect (2012) · IBM Certified System Administrator, WebSphere Application Server (2011) · provisional patent for TCP/IP-based multithreaded internet broadcasting.

Research and projects

  • Machine Learning for Financial Markets — ml.lvovsky.com. Supervised learning over roughly 330 attributes — moving averages of major commodities, world indices, FX and calendar effects — producing instrument predictions ranked by correlation and error. SVM with a Gaussian classifier, GPU-accelerated C++, Python and PostgreSQL.
  • Markowitz efficient portfolio optimisation with the capital market line — github.com/benlvovsky/markowitz. Interactive efficient frontier over 116 cross-asset ETFs; the quadratic program is solved in a Python pipeline and read by a static front end.
  • Writing — these essays, on the non-code parts of engineering: incentives, architecture decisions that quietly become permanent, and incidents misdiagnosed for months.