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Work Experience

• Lead Software Engineer, 

  May, 2021 - Nov, 20221 year 6 months

  Joined the HazardWatch team within the NSW Department of Customer Service to deliver a natural hazards platform as a result of the royal commission in to the 2019/2020 bush fire season.

  • Developed NextJs web app handling spatial data with a focus on map integration and state management

  • Implemented tools to ensure code quality (linting, Typescript, SonarCloud, testing coverage)

  • Automated deployment of infrastructure to AWS (GitHub Actions, CDK, CloudFormation)

  • Introduced the first 24/7 technical support team in NSW Department of Customer Service (OpsGenie)

  • Performed load testing of system to ensure it would scale to hundereds of thousands of concurrent users (JMeter, AWS Distributed Load Testing solution)

  • Participated in national working group to assist in adoption of technical standards across emergency services in Australia

  • Championed adoption of existing standards in place of bespoke solutions (GeoJSON, Rss/Atom, CAP)

  • Acted as a representative for the project to various external stakeholders

• Full Stack Software Engineer, 

  Sep, 2020 - Apr, 20217 months

  Worked with the largest council in NSW (City of Canterbury Bankstown) to deliver an internal tool to revolutionalize their waste management.

  • Acted as Scrum Master in team of 3 contractors

  • Built a new internal application from the ground up using Node.js, Apollo GraphQL, React, Material UI and TypeScript

  • Configured fully automated deployment pipeline in Azure including staging environment

  • Worked directly with stakeholders and users to develop product

  • Mentored in-house council representatives to transfer technical and process knowledge

• Senior Engineering Manager, 

  Aug, 2018 - Feb, 20201 year 6 months

  Managed engineering teams locally and remotely responsible for maintaining and developing property management software.

  • Acted as technical lead and manager for a team of engineers maintaining the YesBookit property management system

  • Managed an overseas team of contractors working on a .Net stack to localize North American software for the local market

  • Assisted my local team in re-skilling off a legacy tech stack (Perl) on to new techologies (JS/Node)

• Perl Programmer / Engineering Manager, 

  Jan, 2010 - Aug, 20188 years 7 months

  Began as a Perl Programmer, building features on the YesBookit property management system. Following acquisiton by Fairfax I was the sole technical resource responsible for maintaining and developing the YesBookit system. Over time the team grew and I transitioned in to leading the team as Engineering Manager within Fairfax.

  • Responsible for the whole feature development life-cycle, liasing with clients, building backend using Perl and frontend with HTML/CSS/JS

  • Successfully recovered from catastrophic storage failure with minimal loss to client data, on my own (not something I would like to experinence again)

  • De-sharded the system to enable outward scaling and resolve performance bottlenecks

  • Migrate infrastructure from metal to AWS

  • Hired excellent team members that made me proud and stayed with the company for 10+ years

  • Developed close friendships that I still have to this day

• Web Developer, 

  Jan, 2008 - Aug, 20102 years 7 months

  Responsible for building and maintaining transactional Holiday Rental websites for clients of the YesBookit system. Role included liasing directly with clients to gather a brief, creating concepts in Adobe Photoshop based on that brief and then implementing those designs using HTML, CSS and Javascript.

  • Learning to be comfortable talking to clients ont he phone

  • Gaining an understanding of how quality content is required to achieve good SEO

  • Delivering many websites that were crucial in the success of our clients

• Junior Web Developer (Part Time), 

  Feb, 2005 - Jan, 20082 years 11 months

  During High School I worked as a part-time junior web developer with a focus on Macromedia Flash. Developed several Flash based features for small business and tourism websites. Helped maintain HTML, CSS and Javascript for small business websites.

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