I'm a world class mine scheduling expert with a health science degree but neither is my passion. I'm obsessed with technologies and processes that make peoples lives easier. In a professional setting that presents itself as Customer Experience (CX) and Digital Transofmration (DX) and me using the word "friction" too often.
Senior Javascript Developer, Tokenized
May, 2020 - Present
Tokenized is a Bitcoin wallet for issuing, managing and trading digital tokens. I built out the front end which was packaged as an electron app. It was a difficult frontend to build because we store the users keys locally and used them to sign transactions and contracts.
React
Redux
SCSS
Product
Senior Javascript Developer, Blockbid
Mar, 2018 - Jan, 20201 year 10 months
Blockbid is an Australian crypto currency exchange. I started off on the frontend but eventually became lead tech and worked on every moving piece of the exchange. I really enjoyed working with liquidity providers and connecting their platforms to help us achieve liquid markets.
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, Listium
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, Cdnjs
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, Microsoft's and Google's javascript content distribution networks
We serve hundreds of billions request a month
Contains over 3000 popular Javascript libraries
Millions of developers visit the site per year
Developer, Electronic Frontier Foundation
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, Earbits
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, JSON Resume
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.
This resume is built with JSON Resume
Over 3000 stars on Github
Community developed themes
Tens of thousands of users
Developer, Taskforce.is
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, Drone Hire
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, BackboneTutorials.com
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, Ephox
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.
HTML / JSX
SCSS / CSS / BEM / Styled Components
Javascript / Typescript
React / Next
Redux / Apollo
Node
Ruby
Python
Postgres
Redis
Serverless
AWS
G Cloud
Heroku
Caching
Health Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Queensland University of Technology
Invalid date - Dec, 2010
Photonics and Nanoscience (incomplete), Bachelor’s Degree, Griffith University
Invalid date - Dec, 2004
Defender of the Internet , Fight For The Future
Awarded on:
Gardening
Music / Jamming
Reading / Writing
Open Source
Trent created and implemented a sales reporting tool across the business. Working collaboratively with peers and senior managers, he was able to customize a sales calculator, which enabled managers to calculate performance outcomes and incentive bonuses. To my knowledge, this was implemented nationally. In my experience with Trent, he always demonstrated a tenacious attitude toward his work especially in areas of interest as described above.