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• Sr Mobile Engineer - React Native, 

  Aug, 2018 - Present

  Tokenized is a Bitcoin wallet for issuing, managing and trading digital tokens

  • React

  • Redux

  • Product

• Senior Javascript Developer, 

  Mar, 2018 - Jan, 20201 year 10 months

  Blockbid is an Australian crypto currency exchange.

  • React, Apollo, Styled Components

  • Node.js / Rails

  • Docker / Heroku / GCP

  • Used Figma for design and UX work

  • Optimizing markets with tens of millions of rows using SQL

• Developer, 

  Jan, 2016 - Jan, 20182 years

  Built a very large and complex React / Redux application. It works on all platforms and has IOS/Android builds due to it being a PWA. (wrapped it in React Native though only implementing a WebView)

  • Worked with Postgres, Redis and Dynamodb for storage.

  • Hosted on a mixture of Heroku Apps and EC2 servers.

  • Caching by Fastly and Cloudflare

  • Hybrid app supported on all platforms

• Co-Founder, 

  Jan, 2011 - Present

  Following Google’s CDN for jQuery, we decided to start a CDN for the less popular Javascript frameworks. The CDN is community moderated and open source on GitHub. We secured a partnership with Cloudflare who now supports the infrastructure.

  • Millions of sites use the CDN in production

  • Larger market share than Yahoo's and Microsoft's content distribution network

  • We serve hundreds of billions request a month

  • Contains over 3000 popular Javascript libraries

  • Millions of developers visit the site per year

• Developer, 

  Apr, 2014 - Jan, 20161 year 9 months

  Hired to take EFF's campaigning to the next level by building an action centre in Ruby on Rails. The action centre is built around some large open source tools that lower the barrier to entry when contacting congress.

  • Developed new tools for contacting congress

  • Brainstormed campaign ideas to raise maximum awareness about issues

  • Lots of social networking integration

• CTO, 

  Mar, 2013 - Jan, 20151 year 10 months

  Started off as a front end developer but took on the role of CTO in early 2013. The application frontend is built with Javascript and organized as a single page application that talks to a collection of Rails web servers which are connected to MongoDB.

  • Managed a small team of developers and designers

  • Built the entire frontend application with Backbone.js

  • Transferred all of the infrastructure from Heroku to AWS

• Founder, 

  Apr, 2014 - Present

  JSON Resume is a community driven open source initiative to create a JSON based standard for resumes. There is no reason why there can't be a common standard for writing a resume that can be extended with an ecosystem of open source tools.

  • Over 3000 stars on Github

  • Community developed themes

• Developer, 

  Jun, 2013 - Jan, 20162 years 7 months

  Worked on many politically charged campaigns against mass surveillance. Not only technically challenging work but also a lot of networking and getting my hands dirty with politics. Our biggest project was "TheDayWeFightBack"..

  • Generated 37,000,000 banner views

  • 100, 000 phone calls to congress

  • 500, 000 emails

  • 250, 000 signatures

• Co-Founder, 

  Jan, 2013 - Present

  An international directory of civilian drone / UAV operators for hire. Services include aerial photography, aerial video, mapping, surveying, precision agriculture, real estate photography, remote inspections and infrared imaging. Our plan is to be the place to go when looking for UAV/Drone services. The website is built in Backbone.js and API is built with Node.js and Postgres.

  • The site and blog combined have managed to receive over 200,000 visitors in 2014.

• Founder, 

  Jan, 2011 - Jan, 20143 years

  I write tutorials and blog post regarding the popular Javascript framework Backbone.js. The tutorials cover a range of topics regarding front end development aimed at beginners, experts and anyone in between.

  • Over two million unique visitors a year

  • 25,000+ ebook downloads

  • 300,000+ Youtube views

• Front-end Developer, 

  Jan, 2011 - Jun, 20121 year 5 months

  Ephox is a worldwide company who is heavily involved with the development of TinyMce and enterprise editors. My primary role included building front-end widgets and applications. Worked on a major product using Backbone.js as a base. Heavily involved in UI/UX design and wire-framing. Also spend a lot of time designing API specifications and documentation.

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