Experience

Leadership and engineering roles across mobile, backend, and full-stack product delivery.

Principal Engineer · Qantas

Present

Australia

Lead a multi-platform Shared Experiences squad for the Qantas Travel App, balancing hands-on delivery with technical leadership and stakeholder alignment.

  • Led a distributed, multi-platform Shared Experiences squad (iOS, Android, Backend)
  • Balanced hands-on delivery with technical leadership and solution design
  • Owned cross-functional stakeholder management and code quality through reviews and implementation oversight
  • Provided tribe-level leadership across multiple release cycles
  • Delivered the Australia Travel Declaration in collaboration with the Australian Border Force
  • Swift
  • SwiftUI
  • Kotlin
  • Spring Boot
  • Git
  • Agile
  • AWS

Engineering Manager · Luxury Escapes

Australia

Led the Trip Planner Platform team, partnering with product and design to deliver roadmap outcomes and AI-focused initiatives.

  • Led a distributed team of full-stack and mobile engineers across delivery, coaching, and performance development
  • Partnered with product and design to define and execute the Trip Planner roadmap
  • Presented delivery strategy at business-wide "Walk the Future Store" forums
  • Led delivery of an AI Trip Planner proof of concept and Vision AI Hackathon project
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • Swift
  • SwiftUI
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Git
  • Agile
  • AI
  • AWS

Senior iOS Engineer · Luxury Escapes

Australia

  • Delivered the new Luxury Escapes SwiftUI app to market
  • Provided local leadership during the absence of the Mobile Engineering Manager
  • Mentored developers across multiple experience levels
  • Swift
  • SwiftUI
  • iOS
  • Typescript
  • Node.js

Senior iOS Engineer · Macquarie Bank

Australia

  • Contributed to core features of a large-scale banking application
  • Worked within strict security, compliance, and release processes
  • Swift
  • iOS
  • Security
  • Compliance

Senior iOS Engineer · ViacomCBS (Paramount)

Australia

  • Delivered features across major sports broadcasting applications
  • Worked on high-traffic, media-driven iOS applications
  • Swift
  • iOS
  • UIKit

Senior iOS Engineer · UsTwo / Amaysim

Australia

  • Swift
  • ReactiveSwift
  • iOS

Lead iOS Engineer · Virgin Mobile (Optus)

Australia

  • Swift
  • iOS
  • Leadership

Senior iOS Engineer · Optus

Australia

  • Swift
  • Objective-C
  • Xcode
  • Zeplin
  • PaintCode
  • iOS
  • iBeacons

Mathematics Teacher · NSW Department of Education

Eagle Vale High School

  • Teaching
  • Curriculum
  • Mathematics

Personal & Contracted Projects · kennethcervantes

Present

Australia

Build and maintain personal and contracted software projects spanning mobile, backend, and web platforms.

  • Built and maintained personal and contracted software projects across mobile, backend, and web platforms
  • iOS
  • Swift
  • SwiftUI
  • Wordpress
  • AWS
  • AI

Systems Development Analyst · Citi

Australia

  • Java
  • Visual Basic
  • SQL